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Associates
Lisa May
Lisa May has 18 years of experience developing creative communication materials for non-profit, public and private sector clients. Her specialty is gathering, synthesizing and presenting complex information in accessible forms that create meaning for audiences. Lisa produces print and web materials including conference, planning and annual reports, print and e-newsletters, website copy, brochures, information bulletins and manuals.
Before her consulting career, Lisa was Acting Manager of Communications at BC Housing, responsible for communications planning, writing and editing publications, handling media relations, and organizing special events and media conferences. She also worked as a journalist for several CBC radio programs, where she researched current affairs stories and produced documentaries.
Lisa’s recent clients and projects include:
- Aboriginal Housing Management Association: Activities & Achievements annual reports; 2012 World Indigenous Housing Conference website, sponsorship package and e-newsletter; CEO Report e-newsletter for members
- Arthritis Research Centre: Website profiles of ARC research
- Fraser Health Authority: Planning session report for a new FHA Research Centre (with Patricia Evans)
- Ministry of Health Services: Conference reports on Integrated Health Networks and the provincial wait times strategy
- Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research: Report on the “BC Nursing Research Initiative” consultation process (with Patricia Evans and Barbara Grantham); website profiles of 2007/06/05 trainee awards
- BC Housing: Housing Provider Kit guide series for non-profit housing managers; Profiles of homeless individuals, housing projects, and municipal case studies to address NIMBY
- UBC Department of Psychiatry: Annual evaluation reports on the resident program
- BC Network on Aging Research: Conference reports on healthy aging research conferences in the Interior and Northern BC
- Vancouver Coastal Health: Intranet and Internet sites and fact sheet for VCH electronic health record; Communications Tool Kit with media, event and communications planning guides for staff; articles for physician and staff newsletters
- BC Transplant Society: Promotional report on transplant research
- YES Resolution Group: Website copy for mediation firm
- McCreary Centre Society: Reports on Aboriginal youth health; province-wide adolescent health survey; and youth in custody
- Aboriginal Financial Officers Association: 2010/11 Annual Report; redesigned e-newsletter for members
- First Nations Forestry Council: Communications plan