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.

Recent articles
Step into a creek walker’s boots
A first-person account of monitoring the salmon run in Haíɫzaqv…
Thermal refuges in the Coldwater River
How salmon are coping in one of BC’s hottest rivers.
What J-pod teaches us about noise
Research on call type modification shows how underwater noise shapes…
Wolf home range and travel distances
Range size varies widely depending on factors like prey density,…
The social and cultural lives of belugas
Exploring beluga sociality and culture through the lens of behaviourial…
Effects of boat- and land-based ecotourism on bears
This body of evidence will help guide ecotourism and conservation.
New scientific review highlights the complex and culturally rich social lives of belugas
Belugas live in multilevel, dynamic societies shaped by kinship, sex,…
The grizzly hunt is no way to solve conflict between humans and bears
Grizzlies involved in conflict and those killed by hunters are…








