Awards:

Dennis Mock Leadership Award (2015)

Deans List Recipient (2015/2016)

Metro Vancouver’s city builder of the week (05/2017)

Grants:

Greenest City Grant, Vancouver $12,500 (2010)

Breakfast Television, Vancouver $1000 (2010)

J.W McConnell Family Foundation $20,000 (2015)

J.W McConnell Family Foundation $10,000 (2016)

Think&EatGreen@Schools $12,000 (2017-18)

Vancouver School Board, Sustainability Grant $500 (2019)

Professional Training:

Ashoka Emerging Innovators Bootcamp, Toronto

Climate Reality Training, Leadership Corp. Certification from Al Gore

Jack Layton Leadership School, Tools for Change. Facilitated by Olivia Chow

Advanced Digital and Professional Training (ADaPT), Ted Rogers Business School

Organic Master Gardener, Gaia College

Presentations: 

Ashoka U Exchange, Miami Date College. Miami, Florida – March 2, 2017
Presentation topic: Oh the Places You’ll Go, Exploring Hierarchies and Motivation 

Global Citizen Summit, Centennial College, Scarborough, Ontario – May 3, 2016
Presentation topic: Innovative Composting Solutions to Enact Environmental Change

EDST Research Day, University of British Columbia – April 6, 2018
Presentation topic: My graduate research

Classrooms 2 Community, Connecting People, Place & Planet. University of British Columbia – October 25-26, 2019
Presentation Topic: From Climate Data to Climate Action  

Leaping into Action, Teachers Rise to Action. Cross Border Conference. Kwantlen Park Secondary School, Surrey -February 29, 2020
Presentation topic: Coot It! Climate Action 

Community Engagement:

Chair, Food Committee, SPEC  March 2019-Current

Board Member, Arron Webster Co-op (CHFBC), February 2018- Current
Two year term representing the membership of Aaron Webster Co-op

Think&EatGreen@Schools Summer Institute, Faculty of Land & Food Systems, UBC, July 3-5th
Attended three-day conference with working team, exploring designing and implementing roof-top classroom on False Creek Elementary

Admissions Committee, Ryerson University’s SocialVenture Zone, June 2016- March 2018
Review all incoming projects and evaluate on metrics

Conference Volunteer, Art of Cities, CityStudio, Vancouver, May 24-26 2017
Three-day international conference investigating social innovation within civic intuitions