Welcome to my website

a professional overview with a personal touch

I am a communications specialist who offers freelance writing and editing, and other communication services on a contract basis. I have published a range of writing. I work with media and facilitate community engagement. I also do project development, fundraising and project management.

I am knowledgeable about environment, international development and social issues, and my special interest is working on projects where they intersect. I have worked in Canada, India and South Asia, and Tanzania. I live in Montréal.

My interests and skills come together in a forthcoming assignment as Traveling Faculty with Cities in the 21st Century, an international Urban Studies program, where I will teach Urban Politics and Development in the Spring (January-May) 2010 semester.

A few examples of my work:

• Why don't you start a reading club? – an opinion editorial for a newspaper
• From caterpillar to butterfly – an article on a women's health issue
• Roots and Shoots – an urban agriculture project that engaged ethnic communities
• Don't slip and fall on the HIV Road - a popular publication to promote dialogue on HIV/AIDS - extracts from the storybook (in Kiswahili) and the script (in English)
• Love walk - a website promoting an Indian and Canadian campaign for land rights