A communication professional and humanitarian highly skilled in community and international development, capacity-building, facilitation, participatory approaches, curriculum development, & multimedia production. Tamara has experience of strategic program and communication planning design from concept to implementation, including skills in community-based planning, grant writing, team building, team management, budget development and oversight, and evaluation. She has strong, hands-on communication and multimedia skills, including video production (producing, writing, directing, editing), photography, print production (design, writing, editing), toolkit design & social media, with a keen interest to apply the latest technologies (i.e. drone videography, virtual reality, etc.). She also has academic experience, including University-level course curriculum development and instruction, journal writing/editing, action research and analysis & report-writing. Experience in disaster resilience, climate change, Indigenous relations, youth engagement, & the SDGs; and is passionate about social and political change for citizens least heard in society.