List of Authors
MATT REEDER spent more than three years as senior online editor at the Financial Post and four years in the digital newsroom at Reuters prior to joining Dalhousie’s Communications and Marketing team.
Fallon Bourgeois is a communications officer with Dalhousie’s Office of Advancement. With a background in English and public relations, Fallon spent her early career working with several local non-profit organizations before joining the Advancement team in 2015.
RYAN MCNUTT is a senior communications advisor with Dalhousie Communications and Marketing and a freelance music journalist whose work has been featured in Maisonneuve, The Walrus, Exclaim! and AUX.
MATT SEMANSKY is a former online communications officer in Dalhousie’s Communications and Marketing department. He now works as communications coordinator at the University of Toronto Schools. He is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in Marketing, The Coast and the National Post, and co-author of Small Business and the City: The Transformative Potential of Small Scale Entrepreneurship (University of Toronto Press).
Stefanie Wilson is a member of the Communications and Marketing team at Dalhousie. She has been earning a living as a writer, in one form or another, for over 20 years. She thinks that makes her pretty lucky.
Pat Lee has been a journalist for more than 30 years, working for 26 of them at The Chronicle Herald as a reporter, columnist and editor. She now works as a freelance writer for various publications.
Dawn Morrison has held several communications roles in higher education, including at Dalhousie University. Dawn is pleased to have returned to Dal as the communications and marketing manager for the Faculty of Health. She enjoys hanging out with her husband James and twins Olivia and Max, hiking, travel and writing creatively.
PHILIP MOSCOVITCH’s work has appeared in The Walrus, Reader’s Digest and The Globe and Mail, and he is a regular contributor to Saltscapes, East Coast Living and Halifax Magazine. He was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2017. Philip is currently working on two nonfiction books while pursuing an MFA in creative nonfiction at King’s.
Jane Doucet is a communications specialist at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie. Previously a Toronto-based magazine editor, she continues to contribute to various Canadian and American publications and websites.
ALISON DELORY is an author, freelance journalist, editor and part-time instructor at Mount Saint Vincent University. She left her family home on Dalhousie Street in 1989 to study and work in Toronto, returning to Halifax eight years ago.
Michele Charlton is the communications advisor for the Office of the Vice President Research and Innovation. A graduate from Dalhousie University and the Nova Scotia Community College, she began her career at the Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia.
MELANIE JOLLYMORE is an experienced freelance writer who’s been working with Dalhousie University since the late 1990s, with a focus on health, research and medical education. She has also been a literary publicist for the past 20 years and continues to work with Penguin Random House.
TINA PITTAWAY is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist. She has worked on CBC’s As It Happens, The Current, Power and Politics, Sunday Edition and more. Her print credits include Chatelaine and Best Health.
MARK CAMPBELL is a Halifax-based copywriter. He has worked on a wide range of projects over his career, from interpretative panels at Peggy’s Cove to Emmy award ad campaigns for NBCU’s Bravo channel in New York.
Nikki Beauchamp is the communications advisor with the Dalhousie-based Ocean Tracking Network. A graduate of Dalhousie and NSCC, Nikki is combining her science and communication skills to bring awareness to ocean research.
Catherine Bagnell Styles is the assistant vice-president of Communications and Marketing at Dalhousie University. She chairs the 200th anniversary committee.
EMMA GELDART is a PR graduate of Mount Saint Vincent University who spent two co-op work terms with the Faculty of Agriculture in Truro. A native of Debert, NS, Emma is now working full-time with Egg Farmers of Nova Scotia.
JENNIFER MOORE is a communications officer for the Faculty of Engineering at Dalhousie. She is also a proud hockey and dance mom to her seven-year-old daughter, Graciana, and enjoys playing with her active three-and-a-half-year-old son, Beric.
Cory Burris is a former communications coordinator at Dalhousie Medical School. His professional experience has been centred around Halifax’s academic health sciences and life sciences sectors.
Cheryl Bell is the communications advisor for the Dalhousie Faculty of Dentistry. She is also a freelance writer and editor who has recently undertaken projects for the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the University of King’s College and McInnes Cooper.
Jessica Feader is the manager, advancement marketing with Dalhousie’s Office of Advancement. A native of Toronto, Jessica spent four years as a fundraising and marketing consultant for global non-profits after completing her MA in Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Lindsay Savelle is a communications officer for Dalhousie’s Communications and Marketing team. Prior to joining the team, she spent over five years working as a communications and policy manager in the non-profit sector.