Dr. Lindsay Herriot / Kate Fry
Adriana Barton
Nancy Marguerite Anderson
SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Rowena Rae
Wade Repta/ Andrée Repta
Richard Zussman/ Rob Shaw
Michael Gates
Barbara Smith
Tyee Bridge
Laura Langston
Tamara Williamson
Elisa De Wyngaert/ Lou Stoppard/ Ellen Sampson/ Charlie Porter
BC Regional Innovation Chair for Aboriginal Early Childhood Development
Karen Autio
Richard Wagamese
Natural Resources Canada
First Nations Fisheries Council of British Columbia
Tyee Bridge
Nick Hannes
Katherine Luo
Lori Weidenhammer
Rochelle Grayson/ Daniel Padgett/ Andrew Loos
Priscilla Stanbury
Bal Pawa
Robert Lemon
Jeremy Snyder
Deirdre Buryk
Antonia Huber
Lou Beauchesne/ Kate Chappell
Sandra Rollings-Magnusson
Legal Services Society
Vanessa Perrone
Lily Collison
Richard Van Camp/ Julie Flett
Fuyubi Nakamura
Julia Zarankin
From the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Collection
Ian Hanomansing
Stephen Hui
Daniel Pauly
University of British Columbia, Faculty of Dentistry
Joseph Kimble
Judith Williams
Drew Hayden Taylor
Amanda Swinimer
Barry Gough
Rika Ruebsaat
Colin Henthorne
James McCann
Jeremy Snyder
April Liu
Martin Family Initiative
Nancy Marguerite Anderson
Bridgett Miller
Lee Murphy
Bill Burns
James McCann
Sandee Krause
Ana Pêgo/ Bernardo P. Carvalho/ Isabel Minhós Martins
Yvonne Boyer/ Larry Chartrand
Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane
Rosie Daykin
Jim Reynolds
Office of the Auditor General of BC
Christine M’Lot
Lana Okerlund
Legal Services Society
Jean Walton
Children’s Heart Network of BC Society
Early Childhood Educators of British Columbia
Johanna Wagstaffe
Barbara Smith/ Nellie McClung
Agata Toromanoff
Chef David Hawksworth
Jean Barman
Gordon McFarlane/
Jackie King
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Workshop for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Rowena Rae
Carey Newman/ Kirstie Hudson
Lily Collison/ Kara Buckley
Merrie-Ellen Wilcox
The Law Society of British Columbia
Dominique Prinet
Jennifer Schell
Carolyn Jung
Tony Esteves
Kevin Thomas Townley, Jr.
Thierry Geerts
John Hatch
Karen Autio/ Emma Pedersen
Simon Fraser University
Sharona Adamowicz-Clements and Darrin J. Martens
Tracy Severson/ Sergio Fazio
G. Wayne Pepper
Val Markos/ Tammy Martin
Rowena Rae
Linda L. Richards
Roy Henry Vickers/ Robert Budd
Sean McCammon
BC Ministry of Advanced Education/ University of British Columbia/ BC Campus
North American Waterfowl Management Plan
Geoff Mynett
Christopher Dummitt/ Christabelle Sethna
Legal Services Society
Sam George
Keith Seifert
Trish Magwood
Sandra Rollings-Magnusson
Zazie Todd
Polly Daktilly
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Marc Lepine
Created by Christine M’Lot
BC Ministry of Advanced Education/ University of British Columbia / BC Campus
Anthony Alan Shelton
Ralph Milton
Dr. Luschiim Arvid Charlie/ Nancy J. Turner
Audain Art Museum
George Zukerman
Sharon Kirsch
Workshop for Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC)
Dianne L. Woodruff
Andrew Thomas
Beverley Patwell
John Hunsley/ Catherine M. Lee
Kadir van Lohuizen
Doctors of BC
Claudia Cornwall
Derek Hayes
Andrew Mellen
John E. Marriott
Arne Quinze et al./ with photography by Dave Bruel
Lauren Mote/ James O. Fraioli
Government of BC/ Vancouver Island University/ BCCampus
Workshop for Halton Region Health Department
Richard Moxley
Diane Borsato/ Kelsey Oseid
Zazie Todd
David A. Neel
Tamar Glouberman
Stefanie Waldek
International Journal of Indigenous Health
Giulia Riva/ Tristan Manco/ Dries Van Melkebeke
Kwanlin Dün First Nation
Kit Pearson/ Katherine Farris/ Gabrielle Grimard
Catherine Marie Gilbert
John MacLachlan Gray
Jeri Ross
Michael H. Khan et al.
Susan D. Dion
Sylvia Olsen
First Nations Fisheries Council of BC
Hanna Bjørgaas
St. Margaret’s School
M. Anne Wyness
Christopher Gainor
Ann Douglas
Preena Chauhan/ Arvinda Chauhan
K.L. Denman
Corbin Tomaszeski
Jane Munro
Beatrice Mosionier
First Nations Fisheries Council of British Columbia
Trevor Boddy
Rowena Rae
Lisa Dawn Bolton
Rinny Grimaud
Grant Lawrence
Jo Chrona
Allison Crawford/ Lisa Boivin
Kathryn Bridge
Barry Baugh
Robin Stevenson
Skye Sherman
Alice Ming Wai Jim/ Diana Freundl/ Howie Tsui
Dan Jason
Venkat Venkatraman
Early Childhood Educators of BC
Christopher D. Burnley
Angus An
Emma Fitzgerald
Shari Peyerl
Legal Services Society
Orac Decor
Jordan Mounteer
Anna Olson
Tiny Frog Strategies
Wendy Wickwire
Author: Margriet Ruurs, Artist: Nizar Ali Badr
Faye HeavyShield
Rika Ruebsaat
Nicola Levell
Ed Kravitz
Tracy Kasaboski/ Kristen den Hartog
Adrian Forte
Shalene Wuttunee Jobin
Torbjørn Ekelund
Jean Barman
Ian Waddell
Victoria Dickenson et al.
Isabelle Groc
Lisa Jean Russ
Corynne Pless/ Tim Hirschmann/ Ye Rin Mok
Ian McAllister/ Alex Van Tol
Monique Gray Smith
BC Ministry of Education
David Waltner-Toews
Barry Gough
Culture and Sport Glasgow
Christy Goerzen
Dr. Michele Kambolis
Jim Reynolds
Ricardo
Leslie Howard
Andy MacKinnon/ Kem Luther
Katharena Vermette/ Scott B. Henderson/ Donovan Yaciuk
Aaron W. Hughes
Jack Knox
Rosie Daykin
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Other projects
Editing
- Annual reports, information sheets, and manuals (WorkSafeBC)
- BCcampus Open Textbook Project
- BC’s New Curriculum 2014–present (BC Ministry of Education)
- Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education
- Combatting Money Laundering in BC Real Estate (BC Ministry of Finance)
- EASE Online (Open School BC)
- Forestry technical reports (BC Ministry of Environment & Climate Change Strategy)
- Principles of Administrative Justice course manual and online videos (Foundation of Administrative Justice)
- The New Energy Playbook: An Accelerator for Innovation and Transformation (Boston University/Amazon Web Services)
Writing
- From Gold Trails and Farm Fields: The Story of Our Ordinary Extraordinary Family (Marti Oppenheimer)
- From the Ground Up: The Story of Ledcor—The First Seventy Years (Ledcor)
- SOP Manual, editorial and writing style guide (Metro Vancouver—Public Involvement Division)
Training
- Introduction to editing
- Proofreading, basic and advanced
- Copy editing, basic and advanced
- Stylistic editing
- Structural editing
- Querying
- Style sheets and style manuals
- Cookbook editing
- Strategic planning for editors
- Developing a freelance editing career
- Writing process
- Plain language
- Grammar
- Punctuation
- Workplace writing
- Report writing
- Writing professional bios