Catherine Evans Principal, Senior Consultant & Policy Strategist

Catherine has significant policy development, communications, strategic planning and project management skills from her background in the public sector. She has worked with all levels of government as well as with community-based organizations to advance public policy goals on a broad range of issues. Catherine is a writer, facilitator, lawyer, and educator. She has been at the forefront of major policy initiatives and used her problem-solving and analytical abilities to advance solutions and build consensus.

Helesia Luke Principal, Senior Consultant & Campaign Specialist

Helesia has worked extensively with government agencies, community groups and not-for-profit organizations. She has led numerous organizations through the development of communications plans and media campaigns on a broad array of topics. She is a facilitator, media advisor, writer, strategic planner and skilled communications professional.

Helesia is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal.

Our Design Partners

Design HQ is a full service design firm established in 1989. Ethos and Design HQ have collaborated on a number of projects including Homelessness Action Week and Rivers Without Borders.

Ian McSorely Principal, Designer & Creative Director

Ian’s work has been recognized with numerous awards for design excellence – particularly for the development of corporate and product identities. More importantly, the long-term clients he works with have been recognized with awards for design and marketing excellence – the ultimate accolade. During his 10 year working relationship with Gemcom Software International, he designed their corporate identity; corporate communications; annual reports; all product packaging, documentation and sales collateral; signage and exhibit systems. During this period, Gemcom received the BC Export Excellence Award for Excellence in Marketing Innovation as well as the Canadian Export Development Award of Excellence.

Kelly Brooks Principal, Designer & Art Director

Kelly’s design work has been recognized with numerous awards of excellence, including Judges Choice; best of category and best of show. From 2001 through 2006, Kelly worked on a number of contracts as Art Director with Go Direct Marketing (now RMG Connect), where she designed Direct Marketing (DM) print collateral for TELUS, VanCity, and Johnson and Johnson (LifeScan).Recently, Kelly has designed and art directed DM at Cossette Communications/Blitz for Allstream and Manitoba Telecom. Some of these DM programs achieved remarkable response rates over 26%.

Our Video Production Partner

We have worked with Production Magic principals on a number of files including Building Community an innovative project evaluation video for the City of Vancouver.

John McGee Production Manager

Production Magic offers a complete range of media production services.
They have extensive experience in Broadcast TV production, Multimedia Services, and Internet Development. Throughout the years, John has provided Production Magic’s clients with the latest and highest quality technology.

John is the consummate visual storyteller, with a passion for beautiful shots, detail and emotion. He never misses the magic shot, while ensuring we never miss the human connection in the story.

Our Music Production Partner

Bill Sample Composer, Arranger & Musician

Bill Sample Music is a full-service music production studio. Bill works with us to produce radio and television public service announcements for network and web broadcast including Have you ever met a person who is homeless? narrated by award winning performer Jim Byrnes and the 2009 Diversity Health Fair for the Affiliation of Multicultural Service Agencies and Societies.

Bill is an award winning composer and music director. His TV, video and film credits are numerous including scores for documentaries including episodes of CBC’s Life and Times and The Nature of Things. Bill has written hundreds of jingles for a range of clients including Boston Pizza, Safeway, Mazda, CTV and TD Canada Trust. Bill has been commissioned to write custom songs for special projects including In the Midst of Plenty for CBC’s annual radio food bank show.

Ethos, where good causes find great effect.