Lily Jane is a marine biologist, field work enthusiast, graphic designer and environmental journalist from Canada. She received her MSc from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia before working as a Coral Reef Research Associate at the Cape Eleuthera Institute for more than a year. She is a PADI Divemaster and CAUS-Authorized Scientific Diver, Wilderness First Responder, certified boat operator and CPR C First Aid & EO2 Instructor.

Lily’s journalism background gives her a particularly unique skillset as Communications Officer & Research Associate at PIMS. Before her MSc, she graduated with a double major in journalism and biology from Carleton University, working under a full-tuition Chancellor’s Award. There, she developed valuable public-speaking skills, frequently working within fast-moving, tight-knit newsrooms; she also learned to connect with many people in many unique situations and climates. Lily loves to travel, and to date has lived and worked in Canada, Norway’s High Arctic, The Bahamas and Curaçao.