A former senior editor of the Telegraph Magazine, Vancouver Sun's chief features editor and Lunch with Lucy columnist at BCBusiness Magazine.

Contributor to Monocle 24 radio shows The Urbanist, Section D, The Menu and The Entrepreneurs. Currently writing book on family dynamics and business succession for ECHO Storytelling Agency.

Former co-director of Port Eliot Festival and Flower and Fodder stage programmer

Author published in:

The Telegraph. Monocle. MONTECRISTO. The Times. National Geographic Traveller.

Vancouver Sun/Postmedia. Globe and Mail. Vancouver Magazine. Western Living. Hole & Corner. The Times. The Guardian. The Daily Mail. The Daily Express. Saga Magazine. Luxury Insider. Kent and Cornwall Today magazines. Simon Seeks. TLC Magazine.

Co-author of three Vancouver guidebooks (Time Out, Best Places, and the Rough Guide), Dai Manuel's Whole Life Fitness Manifesto, and editor for London-based Not Actual Size's campaigns for Dove's Self-Esteem Project, BMW, Nike, Motorola, Johnnie Walker,

Good Food Ride, Aviva, Doritos, Persol, Famous Grouse, and the Middle Class Handbook. Creator of Vancouver Art Gallery video interviews with Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa, Ian Wallace, Doug Coupland and Marilyn Penner Bancroft.

A former director on the board of DOXA, Vancouver's Documentary Film Festival, and judge of the culture category of the 2011 Canadian Culinary Book Awards. Creator of 2010 Legacies Now nationwide literacy project Read and Reap interviewing more than 350 people across Canada including Gitxsan, Katzie, Stó:lõ and Laichwiltch First Nations Communities, along with keynote literacy conference speech, Telegraph writer on culture at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and for the Vancouver Sun at 2012 London Olympics.

Qualified CSIA ski instructor (Grouse Mountain), 200hr-Registered YYoga Teacher and volunteer at SVP