Samantha is the Senior Manager of Regional and Community Planning with Prairie Wild Consulting Co., a comprehensive planning and research firm based out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Samantha joined Prairie Wild in 2011. She leads and co-leads on a number of different projects working with municipalities, regions, Indigenous communities, and organizations across Saskatchewan and beyond. Samantha provides facilitation, policy writing, and project management. Samantha has led and co-led the development of numerous strategic plans, evaluations, needs assessment plans, district plans, municipal official community plans, zoning bylaws, concept plans, and dozens of community-based facilitations. Samantha is a community planning consultant with an honours degree from the Regional and Urban Planning Program at the University of Saskatchewan and has her full designation with the Canadian Institute of Planners. Samantha is an Executive Board member with the Saskatchewan Professional Planners Institute (SPPI) and is the President of the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) Prairies Chapter.