Experience

Upstream Lab

• Canada
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Coordinator

  • Jul 2022 - Present

  The Upstream Lab is a non-profit research lab based in MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, part of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Canada. We are dedicated to improving health and well-being of the population through addressing issues related to social determinants of health. In my role I perform research activities involving project design, implementation, evaluation, grant writing, and community engagement for three projects: 1. Screening for Poverty And Related Social Determinants and Intervening to Improve Knowledge of and Links to Resources (SPARK) Implementation Study (https://upstreamlab.org/project/spark/); 2. Project Dignify: Supporting seniors living with mental illness who experience homelessness (https://upstreamlab.org/project/dignify/); 3. Quadruple Aim: Public health and healthcare system collaboration to achieve the Quadruple Aim and build Learning Health Systems (https://upstreamlab.org/project/quadruple-aim/). Show less



Vancouver Coastal Health

• Canada
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Clinician, Mental Health Housing

  • Feb 2022 - Jul 2022

  • Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to place clients with mental illness in appropriate housing.• Assess and refer clients who require home support or adult day care participation to maintain independent community living.• Collaborate, consult and share information for continuity of care and community resource coordination; and provide education and information services for housing agencies, staff, and other health care providers regarding mental health housing issues.• Maintain appropriate client records, participate in in-services and team meetings, and engage in on going program planning and quality improvement activities.• Lead and develop Evaluation Framework for Government of British Columbia’s inaugural Complex Care Housing (CCH) initiative. CCH is a policy solution geared toward supportive housing clients whose challenges may be unaddressed by traditional housing services, including complex mental health and/or substance use challenges, and acquired or traumatic brain injury. Show less

• Research Coordinator, Vancouver Recovery College

  • May 2021 - Feb 2022

  This project involves planning, implementing and evaluating the VCH region's first recovery college, completely online. We will establish two pilot sites -- with VCH and two branches of the Canadian Mental Health Association (North and West Vancouver and Vancouver-Fraser).A recovery college is a unique learning centre where peers with lived experience of mental health and/or substance use challenges, family members, mental health professionals and community members work collaboratively and on equal terms to co-develop and co-deliver courses on a range of topics that support well-being and recovery. My role involves:• Working closely with research team including peer researchers, VCH Research Institute stakeholders, and senior academics.• Co-facilitating 12 meetings with a team of 14 peers/people with lived experience of mental illness, staff, managers, and external knowledge users to create vision, plan, and address potential roadblocks (using implementation science) for the roll-out of two pilot recovery college courses.• Create and administer survey assessing co-production and recovery knowledge (n = 38).• Create and monitor project plan, budget, goals, objectives, timelines, and ethics application in consultation with PI to achieve roll-out of two pilot courses.• Chair meetings to ensure effective planning, collaboration with, and reporting to, researchers, Steering Committee, and Peer Advisory Committee.• Collaborate on multi-partner and multi-stakeholder (service users, peers, managers) evaluation plan at organizational, systems, and individual level.• Grant writing. Show less



Douglas College

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research and Evaluation Coordinator

  • Oct 2019 - Feb 2022

  - Recruiting students, supporting facilitators, and organizing Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) workshops for students in the Graduate Diploma in Psychosocial Rehabilitation. Designing, administering, and managing security of pre-post questionnaires and Personal Recovery Outcome Measures. Organising and leading follow-up focus groups. - Coordinating evaluation and credentialing plan for Provincial Peer Support Worker Training Curriculum (https://peerconnectbc.ca/) by conducting a comparative literature search of peer training programs in Canada and collaborating with research team and peer educators. Show less



The University of British Columbia

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant, UBC Medicine: Implementing Canadian Mental Health Recovery Guidelines

  • Mar 2019 - Aug 2021

  Our CIHR and Michael Smith Foundation funded research aims to evaluate the implementation of the Canadian Recovery Guidelines into mental health (housing) services across Canada. I work with researchers at UBC and McGill University to coordinate local implementation efforts at Coast Mental Health, a Vancouver-based non-profit supporting people with mental illness to access housing, employment, education, and support services.My role, using implementation science, involved screening and selecting service users (living with mental illness), managers, staff and external knowledge users for a local Implementation Team (IT); facilitating structured meetings with the IT to develop a recovery-oriented intervention; collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data; assisting administrative aspects of the research; and developing knowledge translation activities. Show less

• Research Assistant, School of Kinesiology: Level the Field: Disability Inclusion in Sport

  • May 2018 - Dec 2020

  We explored the access and participation experiences of people with disabilities across B.C. in sport and physical activity. This project is a SSHRC-funded partnership development program between UBC School of Kinesiology and viaSport BC. My role involved:• Coordinating research with two community disability organizations using Community-Based Participatory Methods. We developed a province-wide online survey and I designed the interview guide for, and completed, 13 semi-structured interviews with people with disabilities and staff.• Facilitating discussion and activities, analysing data, and completing a summative report from a community event with the University Neighbourhood Association (UNA) at UBC.• Organising and co-facilitating a community dialogue meeting between senior UNA residents with mobility impairments and UBC physical activity leaders. As a result, a Kinesiologist conducted regular specialised exercise classes for residents.• Coordinating bi-weekly team reporting for developmental evaluation and capturing reflections on the process and challenges of a partnership research project. Show less



viaSport BC

• Project Coordinator, Safe Sport

  • Aug 2018 - Mar 2019

  viaSport is the lead agency for developing amateur sport in the Province of British Columbia. In this role I researched and helped design frameworks for understanding the best practices of how sport organizations at all levels provide safe sport experiences, developed resources for operationalising best practices, regularly consulted a provincial working group, and coordinated data collection through semi-structured interviews to be utilised at solutions-building workshops with provincial sport leaders. Additionally, I helped facilitate activities at the National Safe Sport Summit led by the Coaching Association of Canada. Through deep consultation with key individuals across the sector, we aim to develop solutions for shifting the system in B.C. towards creating sport experiences that are safe. Our intended impact is for a positive sport environment to exist in B.C. where more children are safe because organisations have appropriate mechanisms in place to effectively prevent and address abuse in sport. Show less



Griffith University

• Australia
• Education Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• Web Officer, Office of Marketing and Communications

  • Aug 2017 - Feb 2018

  I worked in multiple capacities across Communications, Studio and Design, and Marketing Technology, including copywriting, conducting journalistic interviews, writing news stories, web publishing and image editing. Key achievements: • Contributed two Griffith News articles: on Griffith athletes at the Rio Olympics and Griffith's Sustainability Week • Invited to join a senior project team in developing a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on sport inclusion for the 2018 Commonwealth Games (futurelearn.com/courses/sport-inclusion) • Lead the migration of 11 sites (including Griffith Sport and Griffith Sports Collegesites) to a new CMS including design and stakeholder management as part of a University-wide website redevelopment project Show less



UBC School of Kinesiology

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Visiting International Research Student

  • May 2017 - Jul 2017

  I received a full scholarship through the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship to coordinate a research project into the experiences of fitness instructors with disabilities full-time, supervised by Dr. Andrea Bundon. Outputs: I presented this research as a poster at the 6th International Conference on Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise in June, 2018. I received a full scholarship through the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship to coordinate a research project into the experiences of fitness instructors with disabilities full-time, supervised by Dr. Andrea Bundon. Outputs: I presented this research as a poster at the 6th International Conference on Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise in June, 2018.


WinSport
• Canada
• Spectator Sports
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Guest Services Specialist

  • Dec 2016 - Mar 2017


Student Services

• United States
• Facilities Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Student Partner, Welfare and Student Liaison Office

  • Feb 2016 - Nov 2016

  Lead orientation sessions for new students, ran promotional stalls, supervised library closes after business hours and improved the connection between Student Services and students.

• Ambassador, Careers and Employment Service

  • Feb 2016 - Jun 2016

  Completed University-wide promotional activities to develop student's career and leadership skills, including student engagement in one-on-one and group settings.



Surfing Queensland and World Surf League

• Events Team

  • Feb 2015 - Nov 2016

  Events worked: World Surf League (WSL) Quiksilver and Roxy Pro; Burleigh Pro; Wahu Surfer Groms Comp; Subway Surf Series. The Quiksilver and Roxy Pro is the first event of the WSL's championship surfing tour, bringing the world's best surfers to the Gold Coast. My role involved bump-in, bump-out, liaising with contractors, assisting corporate brand activation, ensuring a positive event experience for fans, contestants, officials, and guests. Events worked: World Surf League (WSL) Quiksilver and Roxy Pro; Burleigh Pro; Wahu Surfer Groms Comp; Subway Surf Series. The Quiksilver and Roxy Pro is the first event of the WSL's championship surfing tour, bringing the world's best surfers to the Gold Coast. My role involved bump-in, bump-out, liaising with contractors, assisting corporate brand activation, ensuring a positive event experience for fans, contestants, officials, and guests.



Swimming Australia

• Spectator Sports
• 1 - 100 Employee

• High Performance Unit Intern

  • Nov 2015 - Feb 2016

  • Contributed to a grant proposal for the 'Orientation, Selection, Non-Selection, and Transitions Program' supporting elite athletes, with a focus on facilitating personal and professional development. • Condensed research papers for a HPU staff discussion forum. • Built a national team athlete database for creating athlete letters of eligibility, endorsement, and transition. • Created an engaging video to communicate the Australia Institute of Sport PE Framework to athletes, administrators and stakeholders. • Advised on HPU specifications for the new Swimming Australia website. Show less