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I intimately understand the design process. I have been afforded the opportunity to be involved in that creative process for over 30 years. As a passionate graphic designer who embraces my creative instincts and intuition, I have a burning desire to cultivate flawless outcomes in branding, photography, and web design. The process of the idea, from its first beginnings, to its concrete creation and conclusion, excites and inspires me. This affords me the capability to walk alongside my client in understanding what they wish to convey. I then ensure that their message is visually created with a most powerful and pleasing end product.
What I'm Doing
I am currently Senior Creative at Outcrop Communications. I get to work with a team of very talented individuals who work across the arctic. The Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Outcrop is the oldest agency in the north – 50 years young. I continue to work with many Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizations helping Indigenous communities. I’ve helped design websites for The Grizzlies, the movie, BC Museums Association‘s Indigenous Resources subdomain and Indian Horse, the film. I’ve also created branding and visual identities for Cohen Quash aka Mesdizih Eskiye (Owl Boy), Turtle Island Institute, EntrepreNorth and many others. Other long-standing clients include Shot in the Dark Productions, Bean North, Gunta Business, Kwanlin Dün First Nation, Ta’an Kwäch’än Council, Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, and the Yukon Child and Youth Advocate Office.
My Portfolio
My Skills
I am both a team player and an independent, self-motivated worker. I am a quick learner, enthusiastic, focused, reliable, organized and responsible. I have strong communication and interpersonal skills, is friendly and is always open-minded.
DESIGN
PHOTOGRAPHY
WEB DESIGN
I have worked with several agencies, in Ottawa, Toronto, Burlington and most recently in Whitehorse, Yukon. I have worked with Fortune 500 companies like Royal Bank, Xerox, Bell Mobility, Apotex Pharmaceuticals, Canadian Health & Lifestyle Magazine and most recently with Yukon Energy, Yukon Tourism, Yukon Wild and the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre. In addition to my private and public sector design experience, I am one of the few designers with deep roots and deep experience designing for Canada’s First Nations Communities. I have worked closely with the Chiefs of Ontario, the Assembly of First Nations, the Blue Feather Music Festival, the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council.
Education And Career
OUTCROP COMMUNICATIONS
ANIMIKII INDIGENOUS TECHNOLOGY
DESIGN PROFESSIONALS OF CANADA - NATIONAL PRESIDENT
MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
OUTSIDE THE CUBE
GRANTED CDP ACCREDITATION
AASMAN BRAND COMMUNICATIONS
MAXIMUM 60 DESIGN COMMUNICATIONS
HANGAR 13 ART & DESIGN
GRANTED RGD CERTIFICATION
DESIGN ARTS DIPLOMA
Yeah the Snow Snake competition has begun! Go Team Yukon!
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Today, the Dene Games team is participating in the Snow Snake event. The junior males are currently competing. Shout out to Troy Johns whose first snow snake went 250 feet!!!
#yukondoit #teamyukon #2023awg #arcticwintergames
Right here! ✊🏾🔥💯❤️
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“I don’t know if an institutional context is the right place for Decolonization in design pedagogy… Generally how people of color and women show up in institutions and archives is not out full self but traumatic fragments that you have to piece together to get a full picture.” Episode 006 - Bobby Joe Smith III
Badass!
So young. 💔
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Annie Wersching, known for her roles in The Last of Us, Star Trek, and General Hospital, has passed away at the age of 45.
Wersching was famous for her performances as Tess in The Last of Us, Amelia Joffe in General Hospital, Renee Walker in 24, Julia Brasher in Bosch, Leslie Dean in Runaways, and Borg Queen in Star Trek: Picard.
To help her family during this difficult time, a GoFundMe has been set up, raising $75,000 in donations already. The money will go to Annie's husband to help him and their sons, Freddie, Ozzie and Archie, cope with the loss of their mother.
All the hard work will pay dividends! ❤️💯✊🏾🔥
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The Dene Games team is training hard ahead of the 2023 Arctic Winter Games in Wood Buffalo!!!
#yukondoit #teamyukon #2023AWG #arcticwintergames
The Dene Games team is on the ground for the Wood Buffalo 2023 Arctic Winter Games!!
Repost from @goteamyukon
#yukondoit #teamyukon #2023AWG
Team Yukon 2023 | The Dene Games team is ready!!
It is tragically horrific cases like that of Tyre Nichols in Memphis (or of Freddie Gray in Baltimore in 2015) that remind us that caste is not about Black vs White.
It is about the deadly dehumanization of the subordinated caste that allows almost any atrocity to be inflicted upon them — by anyone in any group, including their own, in order to uphold the caste system and to maintain one’s own place, however marginal, within it.
This is why racism alone can at times seem an incomplete term to describe what Black people are faced with in the country their ancestors built.
“It is in keeping with caste protocols,” I wrote in Caste back in 2020, “that, of the few officers who have been prosecuted for police brutality in recent high-profile cases, a notable number of them were men of color—a Japanese- American officer in Oklahoma, a Chinese-American officer in New York City, and a Muslim-American officer in Minneapolis [and now, we must add, five African-American officers in Memphis]. These are cases in which men of color pay the price for what dominant-caste men have gotten away with.”
“Each case presents a complicated story that presumably dismisses race as a factor, but which makes perfect sense, and maybe only makes sense, when seen through the lens of a caste system.”
As this case proceeds and video footage is released, we must guard against the further dehumanization of Black people who, through videos that go viral, are deprived of the dignity and sacredness of their final moments on this earth. We must guard against the subliminal normalization of violence against the Black body, which carries the danger of numbing us to it and sends the message that Black people are somehow deserving of the unspeakable.
As a researcher who has devoted much of my adult life to analyzing our history of division and caste, I believe this section (Chapter 16 of Caste) is one of the most important, if under-appreciated, chapters to understand the insidious nature of this phenomenon — not just on the dominating caste, but on us all.
Last photo is of Tyre Nichols, free and happy, in a favorite pastime — skateboarding.
#caste #castetheoriginsofourdiscontents #history
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via Yukon Conservation Officer Services — Attention skiers and trail users in the Mount McIntyre area! Conservation officers are warning trail users of a bear in the area of Skyline Trail.
We are coordinating with the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club and the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and have posted advisories at the trailhead.
Trail users are asked to stay on the groomed trails only, carry bear spray and keep dogs on leash in the area until further notice. If you see a den, back away and leave the area.
If you see bear tracks in the snow, call the TIPP line at 1-800-661-0525.
Under the Wildlife Act it is an offence to interfere, or allow their dog to interfere with a bear in its den or lair.
We will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates, as they are available.
Baggage claim area. Noice! 💼
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#northernlife #travel #flying #dawsoncity #whitehorse
I see blue skies!! Maybe, just maybe I'll get to fly. ❤️
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#dawsoncity #travel #whitehorse