In 2020-2021 participated in the Canada Comeback Challenge, a national initiative empowering post-secondary students to develop innovative solutions for Canada’s COVID-19 recovery while gaining hands-on, work-integrated learning experience. I collaborated in a competition tackling real-world challenges across public, private, and non-profit sectors in the tourism industry – culminating in pitching ideas to industry leaders and judges through a research paper and engaging presentation (I made a cartoon)

Together with RRU student Deepa Sudame, we researched how rural communities could harness tourism opportunities during the pandemic by analyzing industry trends, studying successful case studies, and interviewing tourism experts and academics. We created an action plan for tourism business and destinations on Vancouver Island – that was Deepa’s part. My part was to create a vivid presentation of our findings and action plan, so I made a cartoon and figured out that complicated data can be easily explained through engaging storytelling.