Testimonials

"During her time with CPHS, Claris contributed to our communications and digital outreach by helping manage and prepare content for our social media channels. Her responsibilities included writing and refining social media captions, coordinating content, and helping ensure that posts were clear, engaging, and aligned with the organization’s mission and voice. Her work supported our efforts to share Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ history and educational content with a broad public audience. 

Claris also made an important contribution to CPHS's digital programming through her work on the Stonewall: It's A Riot virtual exhibition. She was responsible for designing the exhibition webpage and helped translate the exhibit's historical content into an accessible and engaging online experience. This work demonstrated her ability to combine thoughtful visual design with effective digital communication. 

Throughout her time with CPHS, I found Claris to be creative, dependable, and pleasant to work with. She communicated well with members of our team and approached her responsibilities with professionalism and care."

- Jonathan Niemczak, Chair and President for the Canadian Pride Historical Society

"Claris worked with me as a Volunteer Website Coordinator at the Canadian Pride Historical Society from July 2025 until January 2026, at which time I recommended her for another position within the organization. During her time as website coordinator, Claris helped maintain our old Wordpress website using Elementor, as well as created pages for our new website using WIX. While it was sad to see her leave my team, I have seen her thrive in her new position as Social Media Coordinator - an area of the organization that greatly needed her expertise.

Having worked closely with Claris, I can attest to her strong work ethic and problem solving skills. Claris faced new challenges with a smile and a curious mind. She never told me she was unable to complete a task, instead she would ask appropriate questions and tackle the problem until she found a solution. Regarding time management, Claris would often finish her work ahead of schedule, and work ahead when her bandwidth allowed it.."

- Thea Barber, Senior Website Coordinator for the Canadian Pride Historical Society

"Claris was a pleasure to work with. She completed all the contracted tasks, meeting and often exceeding our expectations. She was already familiar with several of the programs we required, but where she was not, such as Canada Helps, she quickly took the initiative to learn. Claris responded quickly and positively to feedback, incorporating our editorial and design suggestions. She was always careful to recap any instructions to ensure clear mutual understanding. 

Based on her work with us, Claris produced a series of recommendations for how we can improve our reach to target audiences going forward. Claris is conscientious and diligent, detail-oriented, with a breadth of technical skills that were very valuable to our project."

- Catherine M Pead, Secretary for Concerned Lay Catholics

"Early on I was impressed with the preparation Claris put into learning the many new songs from our hymnal. Just as Claris was getting more comfortable with the music and the people at Hope, the pandemic hit and we had to pivot our worship to an online model. Claris was able to pivot with us, dependably recording videos that showed her versatility playing various hymns on piano or organ which added to our online worship experience. 

Over the years, Claris has always shown her reliability in terms of communication either in person or via email to ensure the music during worship was part of a smoothly run service. Even with the best of preparations sometimes things would come up that would necessitate a last minute change in the service and Claris was always flexible, handling the changes professionally. Our situation of not having a full-time pastor meant that Claris had to deal with a different pastor each week and she rose to the challenge with patience and understanding. "

- Chris Boles, Worship Service Coordinator  for Hope Lutheran Church

"Claris consistently demonstrated exceptional initiative, creativity, and dedication. She led the initiative to establish our first automated social media posting system using an external scheduling platform, an improvement that greatly increased our workflow efficiency and consistency across all platforms. 

Claris also authored and published multiple educational blog articles that supported our mission and helped strengthen our digital presence. Her writing was clear, engaging, and aligned with our organizational values. In addition to her copywriting, she created numerous captions and graphic social media posts, demonstrating a versatile skill set and a strong understanding of content strategy ."

- Tajpreet Grewal, Director Of Operations for Rhythm Of Life Society

"Claris was a rock star on my team. She always brought innovative ideas to write about, and some of her blogs have garnered a high impact in search rankings. To date, one of her blogs, titled Research Recap: Generating Electricity from Rain, has a lifetime viewership of 8,600+ views and continues to rank as the second most popular page on the Sustainable Waterloo Region Website. Claris was always willing to try new roles on the team, as is evident from the roles she was part of during her time at SWR ."

- Clarissa Charles, Communications Team Manager for Sustainable Waterloo Region (SWR)

"I highly respect and admire Claris’ dedication to whatever she does. She is committed, responsible and available to all she does. "

- Martha Fauteux, Director Of Campus Ministry for St. Jerome's University