I chaired the third year of this non-profit advocacy group from November 2024-November 2025. 
Some of our initiatives included: fare free transit service for those under the age of 18, challenging the local transit service contract holder (currently an Internal company called TransDev) to a locally owned & operated not-for-profit business, challenging local government officials to take transit every day for a week to illustrate the gaps in service, installing bus benches at stops without any seating area, and created an offshoot working group to assess feasibility in establishing light rail passenger intra-region transportation.

The Vernon Climate Action Advisory Committee advises Vernon City Council on matters relating to the environment in the City of Vernon. Items can be referred to us to provide input on from city council, or we can present items to city council to be considered. This is very exciting because Vernon created a robust Climate Action Plan (CAP) in 2021, and Vernon is due for a new Our Community Plan (OCP). We will work to ensure the CAP is included in the OCP. In the meantime, we are working to find ways to implement what we can with the CAP.
I served on this committee for 2 years from January 2023 to December 2024.

  • I was one of an 11-person board of directors (from November 2020 to December 2021) who guided the programming and their delivery to the Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre as managed by the Vancouver Parks Board
  • Responsible for community scale decisions such as whether specific programs and funding can be approved, raises for staff to be in line with the rest of the Vancouver community centre network, determining which special events can proceed during the COVID pandemic, and more
  • Involved in providing community level feedback to the Parks Board and City of Vancouver in a community centre replacement project

I was part of a group of 5 people to found this association for athletes competing in the sport at the provincial level.
Our goal was to set competitive standards for athletes and to introduce standardization rules for course design.

I worked with Adrian Dix and Judy Darcy who were critics of the Ministry of Health in 2016 to remove the age-restriction from provincial government funded insulin pumps. At that time, no one under the age of 25 could access one of these pumps. Through our advocacy, and the BC NDP making it one of their platform planks in 2017, they formed government. Adrian was assigned as the new Minister of Health and Judy was assigned to a new portfolio for Mental Health & Addictions. Through the work in their caucus, as of July 03, 2018, the age restriction was removed. British Columbia became the third province after Alberta and Ontario to remove the age restriction.

I was the Faculty of Science representative from 2009-2010 for my undergraduate student society. At that time, the undergrad students did not have an extended health benefits plan. Our student society arranged for the first plan for the undergraduate students. It was $200/year and it covered insulin pumps. We were proud of negotiating the terms of our own plan as there was strong pushback to accept the plan proposed by the Canadian Federation of Students. We felt that the CFS plan was less comprehensive and would cost students more money in services not covered.