This compendium of more than 30 success stories was produced for the USAID-funded People for Health project in December 2021. ___  

This feature was originally published in Black Press Media’s Haida Gwaii Observer newspaper in May 2020.   ___   There are many good reasons to know your tides on Haida Gwaii. Safe navigation, improving fish catch, and in the case of Natasha Lavdovsky, successfully filming a timelapse for a new, art-meets-apocalypse music video. The Victoria-born, […]

This video was originally produced in March 2020 as part of a three-part series for the Mukurwe-ini Wakulima Dairy Co. in Kenya. ___   We Are Wakulimas – Part 3 – Eunice NduguMaina Seventy-two-year-old Eunice Ndugu Maina has been tending dairy cows for longer than she can remember. She continues our ‘We Are Wakulimas’ docuseries […]

This sponsored content was originally produced for Black Press Media’s Impress Branded Content division and Langara College in November 2019.   ___   When social advocate and business leader Gavin Jones started the Business Administration program at Langara College, he was getting home from his bartending job after 4 a.m. Now graduated, he starts work […]

This feature was originally published in Black Press Media’s Smithers Interior News newspaper in April 2019.   ___   Checking for spiders, scooping out stones, there are only so many reasons to look inside a shoe. Unless you drive up the dusty, winding Kitseguecla Lake Road 30 km west of Smithers to see the shoe […]

This feature was originally published in Black Press Media’s Prince Rupert Northern View newspaper in March 2019.   ___   Prince Rupert could be going to war with Smithers. That’s if members of the Society for Creative Anachronism decide to play it that way.   The territorial conflict comes after 10 medieval-minded Rupertites held an […]

This feature was originally published in Black Press Media’s Prince Rupert Northern View newspaper in 2019.   ___   Coastal Shellfish hopes to have 15 million farmed scallops in the ocean this year.   “That’s one, five million,” Provan Crump confirmed over the noise of pumps and running water at the hatchery on Wednesday, Feb. […]

This video was produced in December 2018 for the USAID-funded People for Health project.   ___   Meet the ambulance taxi driver who hails from Adiembra Without an emergency transport vehicle, people in Adiembra in the Birim South District would sometimes carry community members in need of health care to neighboring Swedru on their backs. […]

This success story and video was produced for the World Bank Global Platform for Social Accountability in November 2018. ___   The Asikiri Community-based Health Planning Services (CHPS) compound in the Upper East Region of Ghana has had some dark days. Two years ago, the CHPS compound was using one room for all things—from check-ups […]

This explainer video was produced in May 2018 to encourage the use of a social accountability platform being implemented by Ghanaian civil society organization SEND GHANA. I wrote the script and worked with a colleague to record the narration, using a combination of Creative Commons footage and screenshots and recorded video from my computer for […]