Freelance lifestyle and entertainment journalist
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. Age: Let’s say that I’m in my early 30s. Education: Graduated from the Music Theatre Program at Sheridan College. Length of time at current gig: This will be my sixth season. Fans see you on the Air Canada Centre jumbotron or on stage in Jurassic Park, but what does being an in-game […]
Written for FLARE’s 9-5 series. … Did you know early on that you wanted to be a singer? Yes. Going to school was kind of something I did until I could figure out what I needed to do to get into the music industry, because I wasn’t going to sit around and do nothing. Why […]
Written for FLARE.com. Stepping into The Goods studio in late September feels like the first day of school. There’s an anticipatory buzz in the air and everything, from the white leather couch to the birch tree-print backdrop looks brand new. Yet, when the four co-hosts take the stage, it feels like they’ve known each other forever. […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … What was your experience looking through the actual merchandise? When you go on a website or into a store, you see the same thing over and over again and I didn’t understand what made something good. There are different price points for sex toys that look exactly the same. So […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … What it like to see your words come to life in film? Depending on the film, it can be very thrilling. However, because of the inconsistency of the outcome of projects, be it in film or theatre, I really focus more on the experience of writing and collaborating as being […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … Did you know early on that you wanted to work in this field? I actually had no idea about interior design; it was never “a thing” when I was in high school. So what made you want to get into this industry? I had a visual arts background and interior […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … How does planning for urban areas differ from planning for rural areas? If I’m working in a rural context, I have to be careful of how the work I’m doing might change the space from being rural in some way—especially when we’re planning transportation solutions. It’s thinking about things like; […]
Pitched Q&A and completed for FLARE.com. Trinidad-born, Mississauga-raised Shivani Persad—a model, blogger and activist—gets honest about the modelling industry’s diversity issues and why the All Woman Project is so necessary. Cellulite and stretch marks are about as welcome at a photo shoot as deep dish pizza but two body-positive models were determined to celebrate the female […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … What does a reality TV producer do? It can range anywhere from coming up with an idea to casting a concept to selling a show to developing a show to figuring out financing. It involves managing the creative and the business elements through production to seeing the show on the […]
