{"id":37,"date":"2023-09-07T21:32:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T04:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2023-09-07T21:32:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T04:32:26","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"hide-if-editing\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-38 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/files\/2023\/09\/Garth-AI-pic-blue-black-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"AI render of Garth\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/files\/2023\/09\/Garth-AI-pic-blue-black-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/files\/2023\/09\/Garth-AI-pic-blue-black-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/files\/2023\/09\/Garth-AI-pic-blue-black-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/files\/2023\/09\/Garth-AI-pic-blue-black-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/files\/2023\/09\/Garth-AI-pic-blue-black-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/files\/2023\/09\/Garth-AI-pic-blue-black.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I&#8217;m a digital strategist working in user experience design team for the B.C. government. I&#8217;ve lived in Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver, but since 2006 my family and I have been living in Greater Victoria, B.C. We are grateful to live on the territories of the W\u0331S\u00c1NE\u0106 peoples, home of the S\u023e\u00c1UTW\u0331 (Tsawout) and W\u0331JO\u023dE\u023dP (Tsartlip) First Nations.<\/p>\n<p>My career has also included roles as an educational technologist, an instructional designer and a continuing education facilitator. I developed and taught social media strategy and other courses (classroom-based and fully online) at several universities. My parallel career path in information technology and education has led me to the MET program at UBC to advance my own education in a field that has always been a passion of mine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"profile_links\">\n<h3 class=\"profileHeader\">Links<\/h3>\n<div class=\"hide-if-editing\">\n<ul class=\"profileLink\">\n<li class=\"profileLink__Item\"><i class=\"icon-link\"><\/i>\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/vonbuchholz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn<span class=\"external_link_icon\" role=\"presentation\"><span class=\"screenreader-only\">Links<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"profileLink__Item\"><i class=\"icon-link\"><\/i>\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/garthvb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Social Hub<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"profileLink__Item\"><i class=\"icon-link\"><\/i>\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/digitalmanifesto.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Substack<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a digital strategist working in user experience design team for the B.C. government. I&#8217;ve lived in Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver, but since 2006 my family and I have been living in Greater Victoria, B.C. We are grateful to live on the territories of the W\u0331S\u00c1NE\u0106 peoples, home of the S\u023e\u00c1UTW\u0331 (Tsawout) and W\u0331JO\u023dE\u023dP (Tsartlip) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97484,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/garthvb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}