October 24, 2022
Monday morning started with a meeting with Tyler Olsen to learn how he creates the daily newsletters. Tyler explained how the layout process goes, what information they include, the distribution process, and why these dailies are important. Following the meeting with Tyler, I sent a follow-up email to Lolehawk to see if they're still open to an interview for the Good Medicine Singers group, and I sent an email to Tiffany Francis at Project AIM to interview about their project that brings non-profit free menstrual and incontinence products to people in the Fraser Valley. Tiffany connected me with co-founder, Miel, and we spent some time corresponding to figure out a time I could come out for an interview.
October 27, 2022
This morning I drove out to Agassiz to meet with Miel Bernstein, the co-founder of Project AIM. The drive from Vancouver to Agassiz typically takes me about 1.5 hours, but on this day (due to weather, shut down sections on the highway from fallen powerlines), it took just over 2 hours each way. When I arrived at the barn Miel and her team welcomed me, and we spent 1.5 hours discussing the project, followed by a photo shoot of Miel and the products. I felt pretty inspired by the work that Project AIM is doing and am looking forward to sitting down to write the piece.
I saw that Project AIM posted this on their Facebook after my interview with them, and it felt pretty good to be seen in this way. I spent a lot of time developing my reporting/interviewing/people skills for this exact reason.
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