For the summer of 2021, I worked as an Action Team Member for the Invasive Species Council of British Columbia. During these four months, the team that I worked on surveyed recreation sites and parks around the North Okanagan. This experience gave me an appreciation for plant ecology that I formerly did not have.

Since January of 2022, I have been working as a Climate Change and Water Resources Planning Student at Urban Systems Ltd. Throughout this time, I have had the privilege of working for numerous Indigenous communities throughout the province. The biggest of these projects has been an Environmental Impact Assessment for a proposed hydropower project in Bella Coola. Working with Indigenous communities has taught me a lot of traditional ecological knowledge, which has been largely beneficial and impactful for my work. My perspective has changed to view ecosystems as a whole, rather than a sum of their pieces, and to consider the importance of every life. Indigenous communities have lead sustainable lives in BC for centuries before colonization; acknowledging and incorporating their knowledge is an incredibly important aspect of aiming for a sustainable future.