Partial resume to date. My first job was delivering the Chronicle Herald / Mail Star and my favourite job – it might surprise you – was waiting tables at a hole in the wall Chinese food restaurant in college for four years. Got to talk to everybody and eat Chinese food every.single.day!
2014 – present: Freelance Reporter – The Valley Harvester, The Chronicle Herald
2010-2013: Publisher, What’s Going On (circ. 14,000)
2001 – 2006: Researcher/ Communications Assistant, NS Legislative Assembly
2005: founded Avondale Media: webdesign, freelance reporter for the Hants Journal and West Hants Chamber of Commerce
Pre-2001:
- Press Officer, DFAIT/Canadian High Commission, London UK, and Dublin, Ireland (3 years)
- Publicity & Publications, FP&P, London UK
- Contributing Writer, The Canada Post (UK Expat paper)
- Freelance reporter for CP (London Bureau)
- Public Relations, Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall (6-month contract)
- Production, Legislative TV, Halifax (term during Westray Commission of Inquiry)
- On-air operator and live TV production, Halifax Cable Channel 10 (now Eastlink)
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Bachelor of Journalism
Risk Communications/Strategic Media Planning: McLoughlin Media, Ottawa
Awards:
Silver, Breaking/Spot News – Atlantic Journalism Awards 2016
QEII Diamond Jubilee Medal, 2013
West Hants Volunteer of the Year, 2008