In 2008 I completed my BA in Psychology here in BC with an Honors Project that surveyed a student body for psychopathy.

This led to a much longer quest that challenged everything I had learned up to then about understanding people.

In 2011 I began writing “Punk Psychology”

Largely based on material I had written for a blog back then, it is a book of essays about being human, and our popular dialogues of it, from an absurdist perspective.  

The Homeless Partnering Project

In 2018/19 I coordinated the first homeless count in my town in the Kootenays and raised awareness of this important issue in a region where it had often gone ignored.

SPARC BC Community Action Grant on Homelessness.

In 2020 I successfully completed a contract to study homelessness and propose strategies to mitigate the problem. 

Labour Market Partnership 2019

In 2019 I successfully completed a project that identified key social factors that had a strong mediating effect on the prosperity of a city, a region, a Province or even the entire country. This project, in particular, was a revelation in the sense of my journey to understand people. I had found the physical mechanism connecting individuals to the culture they lived in.

2021 “Nobody Wants Princess to Succeed: Culture & Manipulation”

One outcome of the works above was a suspicion that there was more to peoples’ behavior than the psychology we are accustomed to hearing about and the sociology we don’t hear about. As I worked through the material for this book, my suspicions became a conviction. Although people mostly behave as individuals, they clearly respond in a powerful way to the groups and crowds they belong to. Turns out this was well-known for a long time.

2023 Kootenay Mall

Another outcome of the works above, particularly the LMP, was a realization that corporate globalization had a glaring weakness: Regional Market awareness. Because of the intense marketing and persistent narration by global interests however, regional markets were not only anemic in activity, but anorexic in nature, exclusionary and often embroiled in fruitless internal competitions.

The first iterations of the idea were less than stellar, and compelled me to start from scratch, learning html code, css and more to build a website that would do what I needed it to. You can see the latest iteration at kootenaymall.ca. Initial responses from local influencers has been outstanding.

Kootenay Mall is the way that regional market can compete against global corporations, and succeed. It’s the way small, local businesses compete with corporations and win.