Working for positive change in our community has been a driving motivator in my adult life.

From being a volunteer basketball coach to running the largest regional funding campaign in our university's history, my commitment has always been to build connections and community within ours.

To this day, I remain resolute in my commitment to volunteer and work as much as possible for my community and frankly have lost count of all the places I am a part of (Kiwanis, Rotaract, etc.).

My major campaign experience includes:

Fund the Future:

• We made an external focus, non-partisan campaign that identified TRU's funding shortfall of $15 million a year and worked to build collective community support to address this inequity.
• This led to the most ambitious -- and successful -- external campaign in our students' union's history, and as of last year, it has been committed to action by the provincial government.

Election(s):

• Working to ensure that both our members and those within the Kamloops community could have ready access to high-quality information that could aid in their voting decision.
• Conducted in-depth interviews with municipal, MLA, and MP candidates in order to provide both students— and members of the community—an accessible resource to understand whom they would want to represent them.
• Creating mixer opportunities for students and members of our community to speak directly to their candidates.

Strengthening municipal/provincial connections:

• In addition to working with all the future municipal councilors, our committee worked diligently to create a more harmonious relationship between the City of Kamloops and TRU.
• Examples include: attending every public consultation on civic matters, meeting with city staff on important projects, submitting provincial budget consultations, and empowering students to have a firmer understanding and take action within our city.

Financial aid:

• Our committee worked to ensure that an evidence-based/economically sound approach to financial aid for higher education would be followed.
• This effort led to a collaborative push on need-based grants and collaboration with the British Columbian Federation of Students to extensively lobby the Provincial government with
• Through these efforts, the adoption of need-based grants was successfully formalized in BC's 2020 budget

Student budget consultation(s):

• The bi-annual development and outreach on a survey that students can answer and provide feedback to better help shape our advocacy priorities within TRU.

Business survey:

• Worked to ensure that the Kamloops and District Chamber of Commerce and regional community would have the best representation possible in the Chamber's strategic 2021-2025 strategic plan through the development of an inclusive member and non-member business survey

Fair vote BC:

• Spent weeks phone canvassing to get better vote representation within our province.

As president of the TRUSU Eco club we did three initiatives in one semester:

• Created a compost program for our Students' Union coffee shop.
• Raising over $200 for an air quality monitor via several successful fundraisers.
• Oversaw the collection + presentation of 1000 signatures of students, faculty, and staff to the Kamloops City Council about a controversial mining project above our city.