Hi, I’m Cora.

My path into information management started with a simple observation: most organizational problems people blame on "bad communication" or "broken processes" are actually information problems in disguise. The policy no one can find. The version conflict no one caught. The decision made without the right context. The knowledge that walked out the door when someone retired.

I hold a Master of Information from Dalhousie University, with peer-reviewed publications in library and information science. My work draws on the full lineage of the information profession, librarianship, archives, records management, information literacy and information governance. My professional interests are dedicated to applying these skills to environments most organizations actually live in: messy shared drives, sprawling SharePoint sites, inconsistent naming conventions. I have an every growing passion for how AI has shifted our role as information management specialist and how that impacts how we govern information for organizations.

My approach is systematic rather than performative. My mission is to build quiet architecture that makes an organization structurally better: clean taxonomies, defensible retention, thoughtful access controls, and workflows people can actually follow. When the systems work, nobody notices. That’s the objective.

I’ll take the time to listen: to leadership and staff, and to the people doing the real work on the ground. By combining stakeholder insight with best practices in governance & risk, I’ll help build systems that protect trust while enabling innovation.

Professional interests

Seeing the whole ecosystem. Cora is most interested in the view from altitude — mapping how information actually moves through an organization: where it's created, where it lives, how it transforms, who touches it, and where it quietly falls through the cracks. Information governance, at its best, is the lens that lets you see the entire system at once instead of one broken process at a time.

How systems dance together. Every organization runs on a choreography of platforms, people, policies, and workflows that were almost never designed to work together. Cora is drawn to understanding that choreography — the handoffs between systems, the dependencies between teams, the small frictions that compound into big risks — and to designing interventions that respect how the dance already works rather than forcing a new one.

Access, findability, and traceability. The practical measures of whether information governance is working are deceptively simple: can the right people find what they need, when they need it, and can you prove where it came from? Cora is interested in the structural work: taxonomy, metadata, classification, retention, access design that turns those three questions from aspirations into reliable defaults.

Governance as infrastructure, not oversight. Cora sees information governance less as a watchdog function and more as the quiet infrastructure that makes everything else in an organization possible: better decisions, safer AI adoption, defensible records, and knowledge that outlasts the people who created it. Her professional curiosity lives in building that infrastructure thoughtfully, so the systems people rely on feel less like bureaucracy and more like solid ground.

Credentials

  • Master of Information, Dalhousie University

  • Peer-reviewed publications in library and information science

  • Ongoing professional practice in enterprise information management and information governance

Outside the work

Cora is based in Nova Scotia, where she lives with her young son. When she's not thinking about taxonomies and retention schedules, she's working on a memoir, following pop culture a little too closely, and researching which large dog breed would best tolerate a toddler.