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I live along the Highway of Tears, where rural connectivity has a hardened impact on the lives of Indigenous women:
Land defenders and their allies are advocating for a better sociopolitical climate for Indigenous women in the North:
Cold climates create beautiful landscapes.
But the cold results in pain for many.
According to the most recent point-in-count (2023), over 70% of Smithers' homeless population is Indigenous.
Protecting our planet means protecting our people.
"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air." - Henry Anatole Grunwald
Smithers, B.C.
I have a Master's degree in journalism from UBC with a decade of experience working in environmental communications and digital media, having been inducted into the Canadian Online Publishing hall of fame in 2020.
Additionally, I provide expert witness services for legal proceedings for cases to do with privacy, media, and surveillance.