About me
Emily comes from n’Daki Menan, the Indigenous name for the Temagami region in Ontario, where the Anishinaabe and Teme-Augama Anishnabai peoples live. Her childhood was filled with canoe trips across Ontario, western Quebec, and northern Manitoba, which sparked her deep love for water and the outdoors. She took her passion further by completing the Adventure Guide Program at Thompson Rivers University in 2014, where she gained a solid mix of hands-on and theoretical knowledge, especially in risk management for outdoor settings. Since then, Emily has worked all over—Ontario, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, and even New Zealand—as a wilderness guide, program director, outdoor educator and risk manager. Most recently, she has taken on the role of National Risk and Safety Manager at Outward Bound Canada. Emily is passionate about challenging barriers and making spaces and services more accessible, especially for those who are most vulnerable and excluded. About six years ago, she moved to lək̓ʷəŋən territory to get her Master’s in Adult Education and Community Engagement from the University of Victoria. Not long after, she joined the Victoria Sexual Assault Centre’s Response Team. There, she’s dedicated to advancing education and prevention efforts and amplifying the voices of survivors and those affected by sexual assault. In her downtime, she loves trail running, knitting, dancing with a local dance company, and learning American Sign Language. She lives with her partner and dogs in a barn-turned-house, where she can often be found perfecting her latté art.