Community Engagement
LiTERary
2024 - Writing Mentor for Newcomer Arts Professionals Program (NAPP): six-month one-on-one program hosted by the Immigrant Council of Arts Innovation
2024 - Writing Mentor for The Writers’ Guild of Alberta: four-month one-on-one program for emerging Alberta writers.
2021 - Writing Mentor for Own Voices Alberta: four-month one-on-one program for emerging BIPOC writers.
2017 - 2021 - Story Mentor for The Shoe Project: a national program of writing and performance workshops in which newcomer women tell their stories of arrival in, and adaptation to, a Canadian community through the lens of a pair of shoes.
2014 - 2016 - Mentor - UCalgary Writing Certificate program (online)
2006 - 2016 - Instructor and Workshop Facilitator
Short Fiction, UCalgary ContEd (online), 2014 - 2016
Creative Writing II, UCalgary ContEd, 2006 - 2015
Getting Published, UCalgary ContEd, 2008 - 2015
Banff Centre Science Communications Program, 2011
2013 Writer in Residence for the Calgary Public Library: Manuscript consultations, workshops, readings, presentations at the Toronto Reference Library and Dalhousie University
Past Juror - various literary awards in Canada and the United States
Governance
2020 - June, 2024 - Member, Board of Trustees, Calgary Arts Foundation
2018 - June, 2024 - Member, Board of Directors, Calgary Arts Development Authority
Secretary, 2022 - 2024
Chair, Strategy and Public Policy Committee, 2020 - 2022
Chair, Governance and Human Resources Committee, 2019-2020
2019 - 2024 - Member, Board of Directors, The Shoe Project, a national literacy and performance workshop for newcomer women
2019 - Completion of Rotman School of Management NFP Governance Essentials Program
2018 - 2020 - Member, Steering Committee, Calgary Distinguished Writers Program
2016 - 2020 - Member at Large, FreeFall Literary Society
2012 - 2016 - Member, Board of Directors, Writers' Guild of Alberta (President and Chair 2015 - 2016)