Selected work across Indigenous language collections, speech technology, marine acoustics and sound design. Each project is described through my role and its purpose; communities and collaborators retain authority over their knowledge and materials.
Language collections / ongoing
Digitization at the En’owkin Centre
Since 2020, my work at the En’owkin Centre has included Indigenous-language recording, audio and video digitization, file organization and archival workflows.
My contribution
Technical work on analog collections, careful transfer and documentation, recording support and practical processes for organizing and caring for the resulting files.
What guides the work
Community direction, cultural protocols, consent and appropriate access. A digitized collection can remain restricted while becoming more usable for the people authorized to work with it.
Language technology / MA 2024
Kʷu sqilxʷ & ReadAlongs
My MA project explored an interactive nsyilxcən digital edition through the relationships between recorded voice, written language and Indigenous methodologies. Related research was published with John Lyon, Miles Thorogood and Jeannette C. Armstrong in SIGUL 2024.
Contribution: audio and text preparation, language-technology development, interactive edition work and methodological research.
Continuing direction: training that helps language programs generate, review and maintain their own authorized ReadAlongs.
Marine acoustics / Trailmark
Listening above
and below the water.
Through marine work with Trailmark in Saanich Inlet, I contribute field recording and acoustic analysis to the Quiet Vessel Initiative (QVI). The work documents underwater and above-water sound and examines small-engine noise.
Hydrophones, portable recording systems and careful field documentation support the listening and analysis. The work also contributes to Guardian training and community stewardship.
Contribution: field recording, recording workflows, acoustic analysis and practical training support.
Training in the field
Record, listen & document
Environmental listening can help a team develop repeatable recording practices and connect observations with a place, a question and an authorized archive.
First Nations AI strategy / 2026
Assembly of First Nations
expert-panel work
In May 2026, I was invited as an expert panelist to an Assembly of First Nations roundtable in Ottawa supporting the development of a First Nations AI strategy under Resolution 45/2025.
This work connects with my focus on Indigenous data sovereignty, language technologies and the responsibilities involved in using recordings and community knowledge with AI.
Those questions also inform my AI literacy offering: helping teams understand data flows, evaluate claims and outputs, and make informed choices under their own governance.
Professional sound / 20+ years
Audio craft as a foundation.
My background includes film sound design, production and field recording, voice recording, and interactive audio. I am an Emmy Award recipient, with sound-effects recording experience for Airborne Sound and dialogue editing on Skate 2 for Electronic Arts.
I have also contributed recording expertise to Bonnie Norton’s Canada Storybook work and related multilingual storybook initiatives. Across these settings, intelligibility, careful listening and respect for the recorded voice remain central.
Current services include studio podcast recording and production, narration and voiceovers, full-length audiobook narration for Audible through ACX, sound design, restoration and immersive listening work. Explore podcasting, narration and audiobooks →
SpokenWeb, poetry archives & podcast production
As a researcher in UBC Okanagan’s AMP Lab, I worked with Dr. Karis Shearer as part of the SpokenWeb consortium, helping digitize reel-to-reel and cassette poetry recordings from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. These included recordings made by Robert Hogg, Daphne Marlatt and George Bowering, supporting the preservation and creative use of a rich literary sound archive.
I also produced Robert Hogg & The Widening Circle of Return for the SpokenWeb Podcast, weaving interviews with Hogg, my former professor, together with archival recordings to explore his life, the TISH poetry community and the relationships sustained through poetry.
Post sound services & reels
Watch film, animation, voice and field-recording samples, and explore my sound design, production sound, Foley and broadcast credits.
Sound art & spatial composition
Hear Eels and Flamingo: two full-length binaural renders of Dolby Atmos mixes created for the Enchantments installation in France in September 2026, alongside my ambisonic and spatial sound practice.
What would your team like to be able to do?
We can shape support around a collection, a language-learning resource, a podcast, an audiobook, a recording project or a practical training need.
