about Me
a general timeline
2020s
2015
2010
2005
2000
2025
Enrolled into the Honours Bachelor of Digital Experience Design Program at George Brown College.
The wheelchair year.
Accepted into the last XOXO Fest.
2020
MOVED TO TORONTO
www.somanyofus.com
Co-Founder, Core Organizer, Writer, Editor, Designer.
Ideator and one of the two original founders of the So Many Of Us collective, a social-justice group and website that collected and shared personal accounts of people targeted for grooming and sexual exploitation by a globally recognized writer. The website went live on July 13th, 2020 and was covered by The Guardian, Gizmodo, IGN, Comics Beat, Bleeding Cool, The Hollywood Reporter, Screenrant, Cracked, and dozens more.
COVID LOCKDOWNS & WILDFIRES
Explained the differences between AR, MR, VR, and XR at SIGGRAPH 2019 in Los Angeles.
2018
Enrolled into the Visual Media Design (UX/UI) Certification Program at CCSF.
Sunday Suppers becomes a monthly gathering.
Started having opinions on Porgs
(and Porg-related interfaces.)
MOVED TO SAN FRANCISCO
Joined Odd Salon.
Founded and hosted Sunday Suppers, a twice monthly potluck & salon for nourishing bodies, ideas, and community.
My 9th and final year working at CanSecWest.
MOVED TO VANCOUVER
2015
Presented at the LA Festival of Books.
MOVED TO LONDON
Joined the staff at ToorCamp, the year of the foam pit.
A few years of DEF CON Volunteering (Press, Speaker Aide)
Cofounded the BSides Las Vegas Sensitivity Response Team.
Helped set up the first BIL Vancouver, sister unconference to TED (of TED Talks).
Lensflower Photography launched.
Infiltrated the Emerald City ComicCon: Photo Ops Department.
After awhile volunteering, finally presented for the first time at Vancouver Mini Maker Faire:
"What Did 'Computer' Mean? The Undertold History of Women In Programming"
Pulled further into NDA-wrapped work, like █████ █████ and █ ███████████ ███████. (Themes: infosec, closed-source builds, and prerelease creative projects.)
2010
Started officially teaching workshops.
Vancouver Hack Space (VHS) Keyholder. Established in August 2008, the VHS is one of the oldest makerspaces in North America (old enough to predate the term makerspace).
Communicatrix launched.
Worked my first NorWesCon.
The Heart Of The World: pioneering crowd-funding project to save a historic theatre in Vancouver from demolition. It raised over $250,000 in under 4 months, gathered 150+ volunteers, and was covered by the CBC, CBC Radio, Vancouver Jazz, The Globe & Mail, and the Georgia Straight. Though the project was cut short, the plans were used by colleagues at The Cultch and the venue was purchased, fully restored, and now operates as The York Theatre. (The knowledge and experience from this project later helped with the successful purchase and launch of The Rio Theatre).
2005
Remember flashmobs? Began the West Coast Zombie Walk, which spread directly from my work in Vancouver and Seattle to at least 15 more cities. I eventually gathered staff and we kept it going every September until at least 2016, involved thousands of walkers, and (eventually) collected significant donations for the Vancouver Food Bank.
Joined the Luminist Team at Burning Man.
Translation & Narrative Consultant for The Secret Knots
First of 10 years of working with the Vancouver Poetry Slam (VanSlam)
as a Volunteer Coordinator, Event Planner, Timer, Scorekeeper, & more.
Co-Conspirator at the ███████ ████ ██████, Vancouver's premiere pirate cinema.
My time being weird in a dark room as a Foley Artist begins. Shout out to my recordist, Mike!
Voiced several characters in ████████ ████, a major Korean MMORPG.
Pyrotechnician license acquired.
Started wiring city festival fireworks.
Theater, darling! Starting in 2002, helped produce 100+ plays, events, shows, and festivals over the next 10+ years, working for and with such luminaries as the Crazy 8s Film Festival, Dances For A Small Stage Festival, East Vancouver Cultural Centre (The Cultch), Eastside Culture Crawl, Eye of Newt’s Silent Summer Nights, HereBeMonsters, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Illuminaries, Parade Of Lost Souls, Stanley Park Christmas & Halloween Trains, The Salvation Army Adopt-A-Family program, Theatre Under The Gun, Twisted Poets Literary Salon, VanCity Credit Union Events, Vancouver Car Free Days Festival, Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Vancouver Fringe Festival, Vancouver International Children’s Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Vancouver International Poetry Festival, Verses Poetry Festival, VIVO Media Arts Centre and more.
Co-Conspirator & Director of Mayhem Management at █████ ████, an event and film equipment rental and guerrilla-style event production company.
2000
Tweener/Frame-By-Frame Filler
& Stop-Motion Animator
at BluFrame (RIP)
With Theater For Living (then Headlines Theater): Though A Clear Lens, a social justice project funded by the Federal Department of Justice that gave cameras to street youths in the DTES to put the Vancouver Police under surveillance.
Co-Conspirator and Ops at the infamous House Of Slack Afterhours & Lounge.
​Began working in film & television: X-Files, Dark Angel, Hot Rod, Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Josie & The Pussycats, Andromeda, The 4400, The L Word, Continuum, Star Gate SG-1, Millennium, The Vicki Gabereau Show, Creature, and Da Vinci's Inquest, and more.
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Some job titles: Production Assistant, Post Production Assistant, Technical Runner, Casting Assistant, Key Production Assistant, Background Production Assistant, Best Boy, Continuity, Wardrobe, Junior Carpentry.
Pulled coins from ears as a magician for children's birthday parties.