Experience

Good to Grow Natural Products Coaching

• Canada
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Operations and Marketing

  • Feb 2022 - Present

• Marketing Manager

  • Apr 2020 - Feb 2022

• Marketing and Sutainabality Strategist

  • Feb 2019 - Apr 2020

  Good to Grow teaches, through workshops and webinars, and one-on-one coaches BC food and beverage companies in the new (Seed), emerging (Sprout), and Growth stages of business how to be market ready and successful. We also host an annual juried trade show, conference, and cohort series called From the Ground Up that prepares, launches, and introduces the best of new and innovative BC food and beverage products to grocery retail and foodservice buyers and other industry members.Good to Grow also has a shared commissary kitchen located in North Vancouver that we rent to local food and beverage processors.https://goodtogrowproducts.com/



BCLocalRoot.ca

• Canada
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Operations and Marketing

  • Feb 2022 - Jul 2022

• Marketing Manager

  • Apr 2020 - Feb 2022

  BCLocalRoot.ca is an online market with home delivery and curbside pick up of 100% BC grown and made food. Our mission is to engage and empower our communities to choose an economic and food secure future by purchasing BC only food and beverage products. Our online market currently has 470+ BC products from 70 brands representing 9 regions in the province. With more than 4,000 food and beverage brands in our province, we believe that everything we truly need is right here at home in BC. Supporting BC brands has a positive impact on the people in our communities, local food security, the local economy, and the environment.Our Roots:Good to Grow, created in 2011, is a teaching, coaching, mentoring, and industry event company working to support local BC producers and processors to introduce and grow their brands in multiple market channels. We work with BC food and beverage brands in all stages of business: Seed (start-up), Sprout (emerging) and Growth (expansion).The devastation that transpired as a result of COVID-19 created both a challenge and an opportunity for our local food community. It severely impacted small producers and processors sales due to the closure of farmers’ markets, restaurants, and food trucks as well as halted any new grocery listings. The pandemic also highlighted our reliance on imported products as shelves were left empty due to disruptions in the global supply chains.In an effort to support local food security and celebrate all BC has to offer, Good to Grow reached out to local producers and processors and created an on-line grocery platform for BC ONLY food and beverage products called BCLocalRoot.ca. As a trusted mentor and educator within the BC food and beverage arena, it was a natural progression for Good to Grow to expand its role supporting BC brands and create a place for food producers and processors to sell their products.https://bclocalroot.ca/



Blume

• Brazil
• Advertising Services

• Sustainability Intern

  • Sep 2018 - Nov 2018

  I researched sustainable packaging options for Blume. This included understanding the biodegradable and compostable packaging market in B.C., Canada, and the US; reaching out to suppliers; and securing quotes. Encompassed in this research was understanding the current local regulatory context as well as the technological capacity for compostable products post-consumer use, in other words, what actually happens to these products once the consumer is done with them versus what the manufacturer says can happen to them. This is a very relevant and important component of packaging for businesses to learn about!In addition to my sustainability focused tasks I assisted with social media and reaching out to influencers.



Canadian Water Research Society (CWRS)

• Project Assistant

  • Jan 2016 - Sep 2017

  I piloted a feasibility study in order to assess the demand among university students and professors in British Columbia and Alberta for an essay contest on western Canadian fresh water issues. I piloted a feasibility study in order to assess the demand among university students and professors in British Columbia and Alberta for an essay contest on western Canadian fresh water issues.



Universities Consortium on Columbia River Governace (UCCRG)

• Research Assistant

  • Apr 2015 - Dec 2015

  Helped electronically distribute "A Sacred Responsibility: Governing the Use of Water and Related Resources in the International Columbia Basin Through the Prism of Tribes and First Nations" via MailChimp.Co-organized a 2 day meeting for the steering committee and guests of "A Sacred Responsibility" in Kelowna in September 2015. I also took meeting notes, and helped create and edit the meeting summary. Gave a presentation of my paper "Transboundary Cooperation in the International Columbia River Basin".



Columbia Basin Trust

• Canada
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract Researcher

  • Jun 2015 - Sep 2015

  I was a contract researcher for the Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) and the Northwest Power and Conservation Council (NWPCC) under the guidance of the Universities Consortium on Columbia River Governance (UCCRG). Myself and a student from Oregon worked together to complete a research report titled, "A Preliminary Assessment of Transboundary Initiatives in the International Columbia River Basin". The entire project included:- Completing an inventory and assessment of existing transboundary cooperative initiatives in the Columbia River Basin. Starting with a literature review and suggestions from the CBT and NWPCC.- Creating a short profile of each initiative in terms of purpose & function (e.g., coordinating fish and wildlife management, sharing scientific and technical data, and objectives of the transboundary initiative), organizational structure, accomplishments, key contacts, and date of creation- Interviewing people associated with each initiative to identify what is/is not working, and what the most compelling needs and interests are- Prepare a report that synthesizes the findings and conclusions- Presenting the findings and conclusions at the August 2015 joint meeting of NWPCC and CBT in Missoula, Montana