About

After spending many years growing up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, believing I wanted to be a brain surgeon, a radiologist, a dentist, a psychologist, and finally, a lawyer, I realized that fashion was not only a viable industry in which to make career (who knew?!), but a fun one.

Luckily, this all happened by the time I was 21. After graduating with a B.A. (Hons.) from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, I spent six years at FASHION Magazine, Canada’s most-read fashion and beauty glossy with over 1.9 million readers (including three as its Western Editor) before becoming Managing Editor at Aritzia, one of Canada’s top women’s fashion boutiques, and focusing on other opportunities.

As a freelance journalist, my work has appeared in Wallpaper, Canadian House & Home, Chatelaine, the Vancouver Sun, the Globe & Mail, enRoute, The Block, the Georgia Straight, WE, and Montecristo. I was the inaugural city editor for Sweetspot.ca and wrote and co-edited the Shops section of Time Out Vancouver: 2nd edition, a travel guide published by the Time Out group in 2008.

I have also made numerous television appearances—more than 50, in fact—reporting on everything from fashion and beauty trends to celebrity style for shows such as CityTV’s Breakfast Television, Urban Rush on Shaw Cable, and CBC Television’s Living Vancouver. I enjoy talking to fashion students and have done so at Blanche Macdonald, John Casablancas, and Kwantlen University; I also rewrote a 12-week Fashion Writing curriculum and taught it at the Art Institute of Vancouver. Somewhere in all of this, I also finished my law degree—although whether I will ever actually practice law is a question I’m sure my dad would love answered.

And now, I’ve moved to Europe! Stay tuned….