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
Raincoast is going to Ottawa… again!
Raincoast’s Director of our Fraser River Salmon Conservation Program, Kristen…
Bright extinction: Scientists have coined this term to describe the situation facing Southern Resident killer whales
Worrying signs of an accelerated decline in Southern Resident killer…
Hatcheries: good intentions, bad outcomes
Our new animation delves into the history of hatcheries and…
A better, older way to fish for salmon
Our new animation highlights solutions to the problems in conventional…
Seeing wild salmon thrive: Our wild dream
Our new animation sheds light on the work we do…
New study coins the term ‘bright extinction’ to describe the failure of Southern Resident killer whales to recover
The study reveals more action is needed to save endangered…
Learning from the two lives of grad school
Sharon Kay, graduate student in the Raincoast Applied Conservation Science…
Fishy business: the technicalities of fisheries management planning
Raincoast submits our annual feedback to the Department of Fisheries…








