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

A fishing boat in the ocean with mountains in the background.

Is BC’s chum fishery sustainable?

Raincoast and three other BC ENGO’s have critiqued the proposal…

Looking over the shoulder of an artist painting the rock face in front of him

Artists for an oil-free coast

50 artists- some of Canada’s most celebrated and many who…

Oil tanker in BC waters

Coast oil spill will be ‘catastrophic’

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Heavy equipment lays an oil pipe in the ground

Gambling BC’s parks for a pipeline payoff?

Scientists from Raincoast and the Universities of Victoria and Calgary…

Chris Darimont gets barreled.

Oil & Water: waves, wilderness and big oil intersect in GBR

We left Vancouver Island’s rugged shore and steamed north toward…

A white bear walking through the woods with the words awi quarterly.

Tar sands pipelines and oil tankers threaten North American wildlife

Raincoast’s Paul Paquet and Chris Genovali authored the cover story…

a large oil tanker

Earth Day presentation on YouTube

Raincoast’s Brian Falconer was one of the featured speakers at…

Photo of infected juvenile sockeye salmon infected with sea lice

Salmon farms as a source of sea lice: Raincoast responds

Raincoast biologist responds to DFO on the impact of salmon…

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