Between 2022 and 2023 I worked as a Community Organizer and Program Coordinator with the Fraser Valley Conservancy. I piloted a community engagement program promoting nature-based solutions to climate change in the Fraser Valley, called Step to It.

This job was six-fold: program development, communications and social media, community engagement, facilitating community stewardship teams, habitat enhancement, and reporting. Occasionally, I would get a spare moment to take some pictures during the community stewardship events I helped organize and facilitate. The purpose of these teams was to give community members the chance to adopt and maintain a green space in their community. During these work parties, community members helped to remove invasive species and litter from the adopted green spaces, as well as plant native trees and shrubs to restore habitat.