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

Wolf standing on a shoreline.

Wolf Stories: Reflections on science, ethics, and moral practice (Part 2)

Drs. Michael Paul Nelson, John A. Vucetich, and Joseph Bump…

Chinook salmon next to each other in a river.

We support the US District Court decision to halt the Southeast Alaska troll fishery

This letter was written by Raincoast Wild Salmon Program Director…

Grizzly bear in a river with a salmon in its mouth.

The inertia of broken paradigms

In fisheries management, each population has what’s called a “maximum…

Three shore birds feeding with their beaks in the sand and their reflections mirrored in the glassy shallow water.

BC needs to stand up to the federal government on salmon issues

Will the province stand by as the federal government permits…

Map of the West Coast of North America showing commercial hunting tenures owned by Raincoast in the Great Bear Rainforest.

Mapping commercial trophy hunting tenures in the Great Bear Rainforest

We are currently raising funds to purchase the Southern Great…

Wolf walking on a beach.

Wolf Stories: Reflections on science, ethics, and moral practice (Part 1)

Drs. Michael Paul Nelson, John A. Vucetich, and Joseph Bump…

Coastal wolf holding a salmon in its mouth.

Lessons from Wolf School and the launch of our new series

When I watched the first season of Wolf School as…

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