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
Seeing is Believing
A personal understanding of the places we are trying to…
The Secret Life of Salmon
With each step my foot sinks into a thick mat…
A critical assessment of the BC Central Coast Land & Resource Management Plan
This report is a critical assessment of protection for key…
Scientific Criteria for Evaluation and Establishment of Grizzly Bear Management Areas (2004)
Grizzly Bear Management Areas (GBMAs) have been a focal part…
Scientific Criteria for Evaluation and Establishment of GBMAs: Exec Summary
Executive summary and recommendations only. View the report in .PDF
Connectivity where the land meets the sea
Paquet, P.C., C.T. Darimont, F. M. Moola, and C. Genovali.…
Range expansion by moose into coastal temperate rainforests of British Columbia, Canada
Darimont, C.T., P.C. Paquet, T.E. Reimchen, and V. Crichton. 2005.…
Predators in natural fragments: foraging ecology of wolves in British Columbia’s central and North Coast archipelago
Darimont, C.T., M.H.H. Price, N.N. Winchester, J. Gordon-Walker, and P.C.…



