Experience

Skift Meetings

• United States
• Events Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance Journalist

  • Dec 2021 - Present

  I contribute articles on how event tech is changing the shape of the industry, creating opportunities for meaningful engagement, and helping achieve the Net-Zero Carbon Events Pledge for Skift Meetings. I contribute articles on how event tech is changing the shape of the industry, creating opportunities for meaningful engagement, and helping achieve the Net-Zero Carbon Events Pledge for Skift Meetings.



Farewell Toronto Inc.

• Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Creative and Executive Director

  • May 2019 - Present

  I founded Farewell Toronto in 2019 as an answer to disposable design that leaves clients unsatisfied with their objects. My design house creates pieces that are deeply satisfying aesthetically and ethically, will last for generations, and that embrace cradle-to-cradle planning to promote a new way of thinking about what we buy and how we use things. As Creative and Executive Director, I oversee all production and marketing operations and manage all financial and legal affairs for my firm. I deploy strategic planning insights to make innovative production methods feasible. I direct our marketing approach as one that uses effective storytelling to promote a new relationship between clients and their designed objects. And, I lead a phenomenal design and production team to achieve full transparency and sustainability across every stage of production. My team is compensated at ethical rates that embrace and recognize the value of their contributions towards bringing our ideas into reality. Ultimately, Farewell Toronto is here to tell a story that brings hope and agency to the design industry as it confronts historical inequities and climate crisis. My approach to my role is informed by seven years of teaching design theory at OCAD University and by a deep committment to social and ecological justice. Find out more about my practice here: https://www.farewelltoronto.com/all-about-our-practice Show less



OCAD University

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Vice President, OCADFA

  • Nov 2020 - Dec 2021

  Strategic campaign planning; policy work; labour negotiations; presentations; membership mobilization; social media strategy and content production; website management; copywriting; contract negotiations Strategic campaign planning; policy work; labour negotiations; presentations; membership mobilization; social media strategy and content production; website management; copywriting; contract negotiations



OCAD University

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Sessional Instructor

  • Jul 2014 - Jan 2020

  Mentoring teams to solve problems with design thinking; communicating abstract concepts in relatable ways; training and supporting teaching assistants; growing student critical thinking // communication skills through universal design for learning; instructional design; online and hybrid curriculum delivery through Canvas and Microsoft 365; lecture writing and delivery; designing and implementing learning outcome assessments Mentoring teams to solve problems with design thinking; communicating abstract concepts in relatable ways; training and supporting teaching assistants; growing student critical thinking // communication skills through universal design for learning; instructional design; online and hybrid curriculum delivery through Canvas and Microsoft 365; lecture writing and delivery; designing and implementing learning outcome assessments