About Andrea Cordonier

Andrea CordonierAndrea Cordonier is a general management consultant, writer, Canada Council Emerging Artist, community leader and construction carpenter.

Andrea has worked with public, private and non-profit clients in a variety of sectors including research, media and entertainment, luxury travel, energy, manufacturing, agriculture and defence. Her interest in community development, and preference for learning ‘from the ground up,’ prompted Andrea’s return to school and graduation with honours in Advanced Housing (Green Building & Construction Carpentry).

For more than twenty years she has held key roles and actively led initiatives covering the spectrum of grassroots community development, project and event management, fundraising, facilities management, community consultation and visioning; funding, governance, volunteer recruitment and retention, and communication and citizen engagement. As a mother of four, she is attuned to the educational, cultural and environmental needs of children and youth. With aging parents, she has firsthand experience with the challenges of aging in place and end-of-life care.

Andrea’s focus lies at the intersection of people, their homes and communities. She writes about that intersection – the nexus of shelter and social, physical, economic, cultural and environmental well-being – at Habicurious.com.

A Vancouver native, she currently resides in rural Ottawa.

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A selection of clients:

Magellan Vacations
General Motors Canada/Performance Auto Group
The Conference Board of Canada
B.C. Hydro
B.C. Hydro International
Ministry of Agriculture
Department of Defence
B.C. Lions Football Club
Canada Wide Magazines

Publications:

From Band-Aid Solution to Best Practices: A New Model for Corporate Disaster Relief in Canada, Conference Board of Canada, Public Safety Catalogue Library, HD 49 F76 1998

Photo contribution to The Art of Diplomacy: Strengthening the Canada-U.S. Relationship in Times of Uncertainty, Bruce Heyman & Vicki Heyman, 2018

Broadcasting:

CBC, All in a Day, Andrea’s Trek, a 9-week call-in series about travelling/camping across Canada with my four kids, aged 4 to 8 years old (click the link above to listen)

CBC, All in a Day, Renovating Mamma, an 8-week call-in series about renovating my 125-year-old Queen Anne property while juggling four kids underfoot

Artist Residencies:

2020 through 2022: Lens-based visual artistDepartment of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC under Dr. Glyn Williams-Jones

Volunteer Work:

Photographer, Workers History Museum, Ottawa, photographic cataloguing of the Domtar/E.B. Eddy complex prior to its redevelopment

Founder & Coordinator, Jane’s Walk Burritt’s Rapids Community Festival

Local host for National Canadian Film Day – Nicolas Cage Returns to Burritt’s Rapids and here

Local host for Festival of Small Halls, Burritt’s Rapids

Local host for Torchlight Shakespeare in the Park, A Company of Fools, Burritt’s Rapids

Member-at-Large, Secretary, Chair, Burritt’s Rapids Community Association Securing of funding opportunities, project management of facility upgrades, community facilitation, communication, promotion, media/government relations

Founder & Chair, The Greening Project for Rideau 175, research, development, funding and implementation of public gardens in Burritt’s Rapids in advance of the 175th anniversary of the Rideau Canal

Events Chair, annual thematic fundraising dinners for maintenance of community-owned hall; management of arts events including concerts & theatre productions, seasonal events