Samantha Walker
Community Engagement Specialist

Samantha holds a Fundraising Management Certificate from Durham College and has volunteered with numerous arts and animal-welfare nonprofit organizations. With a background in the music industry, she brings experience in creative marketing and special events, offering a fresh perspective on fundraising strategy – particularly in areas that emphasize community engagement and connection.

Before formally joining Raincoast, Samantha assisted the development team as a volunteer by identifying new funding opportunities. She now supports the organization’s public outreach initiatives, campaigns, partnership building efforts, and grant coordination.

Having spent her childhood on Vancouver Island, Samantha is thrilled to support Raincoast’s mission to protect the environment, cultures, and communities she has long admired and cherished.

samantha [dot] walker [at] raincoast [dot] org

Samantha Walker wears a toque in the snow and smiles.

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A classic mountaintop coastal Douglas Fir landscape, the ocean expanding in the background.

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An afternoon as ecologists in Mundy Park

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A woman wearing a purple jacket and blue ballcap kneels in the grass, wearing gardening gloves as she plants a native plant with other stewards walking with tools behind her.

Join us for a free five-day land-to-sea educational expedition through the Salish Sea

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Map with a satellite imagery basemap showing the 12 partner watersheds in orange and 3 accessory watersheds in yellow.

Interactive map of watershed-based pollution monitoring in southern BC, Canada

Highlights from our water quality monitoring partnerships.

A Southern Resident killer whale leaps out of the calm water, a trail of water running from their dorsal fin.

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