Project Lead: I am an historian by education, a storyteller by avocation and a social entrepreneur by trade.
Over the last twenty years I have been the lead consultant on housing projects valued at over $40,000,000. Since 2003 I have worked primarily on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) with a strong focus on the development of social enterprise projects in literacy (Shine a Light on Literacy), housing (Skwachàys Lodge & Residence), education (Digital Technology & Education Society) as well as the Urban Aboriginal Fair Trade Art Gallery. During Canada’s sesquicentennial in 2017 I was the project lead on two large scale Indigenous cultural projects. The Kanata Festival on Turtle Island and a mobile application for a location-based Indigenous Knowledge Network.
Most recently Joseph created a community-based, Fair Trade distribution system for a collective of small Cambodian farmers that grow the best pepper in the world – Kampot Pepper.
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