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
A Living Ocean
Hecate Strait is one of the roughest bodies of water…
Cutting to the Chase
A young wolf races along the shore, his gangly legs…
Open House
The Koeye (K’way) watershed is located about 30 miles south…
Notes From the Shipyard
Raincoast’s dedicated research boat, a 66-foot steel hulled sloop called…
Facts from faeces: Prey remains in Wolf, Canis lupus, faeces revise occurrence records for mammals of British Columbia’s coastal archipelago.
Price, M.H.H., C.T. Darimont, N.N. Winchester, and P.C. Paquet. 2005.…
First Days
Chris Williamson, From Bella Bella, BC May 2006 First Days…
Exploring the Land of C’idawai
Briony PennSalt Spring Island, BCMay 2006 In 1916, populations of…
Modelling Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) Distribution and Habitat in Coastal Temperate Rainforests of British Columbia, Canada
Swan, P.L. 2005. Modelling Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) Distribution and…

