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 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.
The University of Toronto's Teaching Assistant Training Program (TATP) selects one graduate student Course Instructor each year for its Teaching Excellence Award. This award "recognizes one graduate student whose outstanding work as a sole-responsibility Course Instructor shows evidence of educational leadership, meaningful contributions to course and curriculum development, and impact on student learning."
As a Research Grants Facilitator in the UBC Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, I help researchers to articulate their goals to an audience of their peers. In my first 2.5 years in this role, I have coordinated 45 successful grants totaling ~$3M.
I volunteer with the City of Vancouver's Neighbourhood Emergency Assistance Team,so that, in the event of an earthquake or other major disaster, I'll be able to assist emergency responders (firefighters, police, or city staff) in safety and rescue operations. I'm one of six volunteer Zone Leaders in the City, which means I'll have a key leadership role in my neighbourhood in the event of a disaster.