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
Juvenile Salmon Migration Mapping: A Pilot Study in Roscoe Inlet
The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate whether…
Stable isotopic niche predicts fitness of prey in a wolf-deer system
Darimont, C.T., P.C. Paquet and T.E. Reimchen. 2007. Stable isotopic…
Salmon in the Great Bear Rainforest
This popular summary gives an overview of the importance of…
The influence of natural landscape fragmentation and resource availability on connectivity and distribution of marine gray wolf (Canis lupus) populations on the Central Coast, British Columbia, Canada
Paquet, P.C., S.M. Alexander, P.L. Swan, and C.T. Darimont. 2006.…
Death by a Thousand Cuts: The importance of small streams on British Columbia’s central and north coasts (2005)
This report describes the role of small salmon runs in…
Early ontogenetic diet of wolves
Bryan, J., CT Darimont, T.E. Reimchen, and P.C. Paquet. 2006.…
A Rainforest Awakening
by Chris Genovali January 2007 From Victoria, B.C. Last fall, Raincoast’s…
A Day to be Heard
A nation’s stand against open-net salmon farming and an appeal…



