The Team

Dr. Nicole Vaugeois
Principle Investigator
VIU – BC Regional Innovation Chair in Tourism and Sustainable Rural Development

Sharon Karsten
Project Coordinator
SFU – Ph.D Student, Comox Valley Art Gallery – Director

Alanna Williams
Technical Director
VIU – Professor Digital Media Studies

Dr. Pam Shaw
Co-Applicant
VIU – Director, Master of Community Planning Program

Dr. William Garrett-Petts
Co-Applicant
TRU – Professor of English & Associate Vice-President Research

Matt Rader
Co-Applicant
UBC Okanagan – Assistant Professor, Creative Studies

Sara Vipond
Co-Applicant
ECUAD & NIC – Instructor, Fine Arts

Angela Somerset
Co-Applicant
ECUAD & NIC – Instructor, Fine Arts, Comox Valley Art Gallery – Curator

David Petroziello
VIU – MA Sustainable Leisure Management

Liz Kawahara
VIU – Digital Media and First Nations Studies (minor in each)

Melanie Messier
VIU – Bachelor of Tourism Management

Lan Le Diem Tran
VIU – Master of Arts in Sustainable Leisure Management

Elise Boulanger
VIU – Global Studies

Sarah Holden
VIU – Geography

Olivia Li
VIU – MA Sustainable Leisure Management

Sunny Rosser
VIU – Tourism and Recreation Management