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.

Recent articles

In a dense green forest, one biologist walks along the side of a large mossy log as another walks beside below her.

Step into a creek walker’s boots

A first-person account of monitoring the salmon run in Haíɫzaqv…

Aerial view of the winding Colwater river in the Nicola valley.

Thermal refuges in the Coldwater River

How salmon are coping in one of BC’s hottest rivers.

Four Southern resident killer whales are seen from a high spot on shore, with leaves of trees in the foreground.

What J-pod teaches us about noise

Research on call type modification shows how underwater noise shapes…

Wolf crossing a road.

Wolf home range and travel distances

Range size varies widely depending on factors like prey density,…

Some belugas come to the surface, glistening white on dark blue water, as a group.

The social and cultural lives of belugas

Exploring beluga sociality and culture through the lens of behaviourial…

Close up of a dripping wet grizzly bear with light shining through their chin hair.

Effects of boat- and land-based ecotourism on bears

This body of evidence will help guide ecotourism and conservation.

A beluga calf and mother surface together and a science journal figure hovers off to the right.

New scientific review highlights the complex and culturally rich social lives of belugas

Belugas live in multilevel, dynamic societies shaped by kinship, sex,…

A grizzly bear walks along the sand with her two cubs in a line behind her.

The grizzly hunt is no way to solve conflict between humans and bears

Grizzlies involved in conflict and those killed by hunters are…

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