I am a PhD student and fellowship recipient at the University of British Columbia's School of Population and Public Health and a graduate research assistant with the BC Centre on Substance Use. I am an experienced drug checking technician who, in my role as Research Data Coordinator for the BC Centre on Substance Use's Drug Checking Project, oversaw the collection and reporting of the province's drug checking data. I have been educating drug checking technicians in BC since 2018 and developed the provincial drug checking technical training curriculum.