I'm an avid gardener, growing veggies, herbs, and berries in my community garden plot and on my small balcony. I've recently begun writing how-to gardening articles, focusing on growing food inexpensively, in urban settings with limited access to land outdoors.
The Editors Canada President's Award for Volunteer Service recognizes outstanding service to the organization by member volunteers. In June 2020, I received the award along with five other Canadian editors.
At the 2019 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and in the September 2019 issue of Literary Review of Canada, I've shared my perspective on the need for bi-directional flows of information between scholars and off-campus sites of knowledge
I write a monthly advice column at UniversityAffairs.ca called "Ask Dr. Editor." Through this column, I respond to the writing questions of academics in Canada, relating the finer details of their queries to broader issues of academic communication and knowledge dissemination.
I am leading the development and evaluation of five-day writing retreats for graduate students at UBC, a project funded through UBC's Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund.
I drafted, coordinated, and won over $7,000 in funding for a project to build observational beehives--beehives with plexiglass walls--for my local community garden, the Downtown Intercultural Gardeners' Society (D.I.G.S.). I obtained funding from the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Foundation for this project.
In May 2018, I attended the Editors Canada conference in Saskatoon, where I received the Claudette Upton Scholarship -- the national editing award for emerging editors.
In this short presentation, delivered as a part of the CIRCLe 2018 symposium at UBC, I called on instructors to be aware of the implications of asking their students to perform authenticity in searchable, accessible online spaces.
As the bulk of my editing focuses on grant applications, most of the texts that I edit are confidential, read only by an audience of between three and twelve people. However, some of my editing work has been published, from peer reviewed journal articles to book chapters and graduate student theses.
A year into our pilot project, the UBC Faculty of Arts ePortfolio team found that students who were creating online portfolios didn't have a strong conception of the range of people who might collect and present their accomplishments online. I created this video and had it animated as an introduction to the ePortfolio.