About me
Learn more about my work, my story, and my mission.
About me
Learn more about my mission and my work
My Mission
Belonging isn’t something we wait around hoping to be granted. It’s something we create.
We live in a world where not everyone’s voice, identity, or experience has historically had a seat at the table. I believe my life’s work is about creating new tables.
My work sits at the intersection of belonging, equity, grief, leadership, and systems change. Whether I am speaking on a stage, facilitating difficult conversations, leading organizations, or building communities, I help create spaces where everyone can claim their place.
I believe the strongest communities are built when people feel seen, heard, and valued exactly as they are, without having to leave parts of themselves at the door.
My Story
My work did not begin with a business plan. It began with my own story.
The documentary below shares the experience that led me to found the Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Centre. While my work has evolved to focus on belonging, leadership, systems change, and community, this story remains the foundation of everything I build.
Credentials and Experience
I’m a certified coach and founder of the registered charity, Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Centre. I’m also the co-founder of Seeds of Growth, Grief Education Inc. an ICF accredited coaching program and Board Co-Chair of Skipping Stones Foundation, empowering trans and gender diverse youth and adults.
Community Builder
Community has always been the foundation of my work. What began with my own lived experience has grown into building communities where people feel seen, supported, and connected.
Over the past decade, I have built communities that bring together people navigating grief and loss, queerness, race, disability, infertility, parenting, and other life experiences that are too often misunderstood or pushed to the margins of society.
Today, that work extends beyond any one community. Whether I am leading organizations, facilitating conversations, speaking on stages, or building new initiatives, I remain committed to creating spaces where everyone can claim their place.
Founder | Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Centre
What began with my own experience of pregnancy and infant loss grew into one of Canada’s leading pregnancy and infant loss organizations.
As Founder, I led the organization as CEO for seven years. In just four years, I grew the organization from a $20,000 annual budget to nearly $1 million, while building a sustainable organization with 15 staff members and more than 75 volunteers. Today, the Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Centre continues to provide accessible, equitable support to thousands of families.
Founding and leading the organization shaped my approach to leadership, community building, and creating systems that are more equitable, compassionate, and responsive to the people they serve.
Founder | Grief + Loss Coach Certification
After years of coaching individuals through grief and loss, I realized one person could never meet the growing need for meaningful, evidence-informed support. Rather than simply expanding my own practice, I chose to create a framework that could be taught, shared, and sustained.
I co-founded Seeds of Growth Grief Education Inc. to train and mentor other professionals using the Microdose Method™, a framework I developed through years of supporting thousands of individuals and families navigating grief.
Through coach certification, continuing education, corporate training, and practical resources, we created new pathways for professionals to build confidence and competence in supporting people through grief.
What began as a way to expand my own impact became a way to expand access to meaningful grief support for countless others.
Systems Change + Public Advocacy
My work has always extended beyond individual support to changing the systems that shape people’s lives.
As a key stakeholder in Alberta’s Bill 17, I worked alongside government to help expand bereavement leave legislation to recognize pregnancy and infant loss in all its forms, including miscarriage, stillbirth, termination for medical reasons (TFMR), abortion, neonatal death, and pregnancy loss through surrogacy, while recognizing the experiences of pregnant people, partners, and intended parents.
My advocacy has also included presenting to Calgary City Council to support changes to the distribution of graphic anti-abortion materials and working alongside leaders to create more equitable, compassionate, and inclusive systems.
I believe meaningful change happens when we are willing to challenge existing systems and build policies that better reflect the realities of the people they are meant to serve.
Belonging + Equity
We live in a world where not everyone’s voice, identity, or experience has historically had a seat at the table. That reality has shaped both my life and my work.
As a queer woman of colour living with hidden disabilities, I know what it feels like to navigate spaces that were not designed with everyone in mind. Those experiences continue to shape how I lead, how I build, and how I partner with organizations and communities.
I believe belonging isn’t given. It’s created. When we intentionally build spaces where everyone can claim their place, we create stronger leaders, stronger organizations, and stronger communities.
Speaker + Faciliator
I believe education doesn’t only happen in classrooms or systems. It happens in community.
Through keynote speaking, workshops, facilitation, corporate training, and grief education, I create spaces where people can engage with difficult topics in ways that are practical, compassionate, and deeply human.
Whether I’m speaking to a room of twenty or two hundred, my goal is always the same: to help people leave with new perspectives, stronger connections, and the courage to create spaces where everyone can claim their place.