Staff & Associates
Melissa Davis is the Executive Director with BC Citizens for Public Power, joining the organization in July 2007. With over 20 years experience in the non-profit sector—chiefly in the areas of cause-related marketing, communications, and resource development—Melissa brings a deep commitment to community engagement and social justice movements. She has worked in the areas of HIV/AIDS, disability rights, freedom of information/privacy protection, youth activism, prisoners' justice, and the anti-violence movement. Formerly, as Director of Communications with the BC Persons with AIDS (BCPWA) Society, she launched a year-long provincial awareness campaign to End HIV Stigma, including broadcast media advertisements, an information website, and associated print materials. Previously, she worked as an independent communications/marketing consultant, producing a range of materials and coordinating awareness initiatives such as the provincial Right to Privacy Campaign. Earlier in her career, Melissa was Director of Development with the BCPWA Society and an Account Executive with a Vancouver-based direct marketing agency. Over the years, Melissa has created and implemented signature fundraising events as well as high profile awareness campaigns, developing compelling communications through innovative social marketing methods and other progressive approaches. 
Rex Weyler provides communications and research support to BC Citizens for Public Power. Weyler has worked in British Columbia and international environmental movements for four decades and is a passionate advocate for the protection of BC's wilderness, wildlife, and public power. In the 1970s, he served as a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation in Vancouver and as editor of the Greenpeace Chronicles. He served on Greenpeace whale, seal, and nuclear campaigns and is a co-founder of Greenpeace International. In 2004, Weyler published the history of that movement, Greenpeace: The Inside Story (Raincoast Books). Weyler is the author of nine books. He received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his book Blood of the Land (Everest House, New Catalyst), was twice a finalist for the BC Book Awards nonfiction prize, and was a 2004 finalist for the Shaughnessy-Cohen Award for political writing. In 2005, he received the “social justice award” from the Urban Environmental Policy Center in Los Angeles, for his lifetime achievements in ecology and social justice. Wayne Campbell is the Database Administrator with BC Citizens for Public Power. Wayne has an extensive background in database administration, fundraising, and financial management, and has brought these skills and experience to volunteer work with numerous local non-profit organizations. He joined BCCPP in August 2007 to assist us in reorganizing our administrative and research files, media clippings, and assorted communications, following an extended period where our offices had not been staffed. Since October 2007, Wayne has assumed responsibility for managing the BCCPP database, keeping our records up-to-date so that we can communicate with our many donors and supporters throughout the province.
Britt Permien is an independent graphic artist who provides a range of creative services for BC Citizens for Public Power, designing all print and promotional materials developed by the organization. Specializing in graphic design work for non-profit organizations located in Vancouver's Lower Mainland, Britt says: "I am inspired to design for organizations and for issues that I feel passionate about. Non-profits usually work on a shoestring budget; but innovative designs can still be produced despite financial constraints. I always strive to create design solutions that reflect the social and environmental justice messages of the organization, while at the same time staying within the budget and timeline parametres."
View samples of Britt's work at: www.brittpermien.com
Raised Eyebrow Web Studio creates beautiful, accessible, and user-friendly websites for non-profits and small businesses. A Vancouver-based company specializing in online strategy, design, and development, Raised Eyebrow's goal is to serve as a resource for quality website development and information, while promoting the web as a creative and empowering communications tool. Raised Eyebrow has worked with BC Citizens for Public Power since 2002, designing and maintaining various versions of the organization's website. Over that time, www.citizensforpublicpower.ca has evolved from a small site, supporting a single focused campaign, to a larger information resource to support a broad range of work carried out by this consumer-based, provincial organization. The current website design organizes information into major issues relating to public power in BC, and uses the Drupal Open Source Content Management System to facilitate the process of uploading regular updates to the site.
For more information and sample websites developed by Raised Eyebrow, visit: www.raisedeyebrow.com
West Star Communications is a full-service communications agency. Its goal is to provide the most effective strategic communication that is critical for business, labour, non-profit organizations, and government in today's media-focused world. Successful communications, according to President Bill Tieleman, depends on creativity combined with a strategic sense of timing and context. Bill is one of BC's best known communicators, political commentators, and strategists and has worked with BC Citizens for Public Power since its inception in 2002, assisting with communications, media relations, and fundraising. Bill has been Communications Director in the BC Premier's Office and at the BC Federation of Labour. Presently, he writes a political column on Tuesdays in Vancouver's small daily newspaper 24 Hours and also appears each Monday at 10 a.m. on CKNW's Bill Good Show.
For more information, visit: www.weststarcommunications.net