I started my environmental career in the American Southwest, working alongside major anthropogenic projects doing environmental mitigation. In 2018, I moved to Canada and began working with and understanding local ecosystems in the north. I have worked in Alberta, Ontario, and British Columbia doing environmental management work, including wildlife disease monitoring, plant surveying, bird surveying and monitoring, traditional food access with Indigenous communities, and building environmental programs from the ground up.

My passion for protecting the wilderness for generations to come aligns with Indigenous ways of knowing. This passion grew as I fostered relationships with several indigenous communities across Canada to complete environmental surveys and project planning. I say that I am “learning to walk the two-eyed seeing path.” I consider it a great honour to work with Indigenous communities, and I welcome any outreach from communities planning wildlife management on their reserves or traditional territories.

Ecological restoration is a slow, intentional process that works with the land to bring it back to a place where it is productive and functioning as quality habitat. I work from the soil up to mitigate invasive species and help native plants flourish.

When I’m not working on the land, I am working on my master’s project. I can also be found fishing, foraging, and enjoying the water and the land around London.

“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” - Aldo Leopold