Our Team

Staff & Volunteer Bios

staff

Executive Director, Drama, Come Together, Big Events

As a long time resident of Devon, Local's Executive Director, Katie Connor, feels that she has an invested interest in our town's prosperity. Although Katie spends a great deal of her time working behind the scenes at Local she also works directly with the youth on a regular basis, primarily as the proud director of the Mighty Morphing Drama Rangers.

Katie is happily married to her husband, Layne. They have two kids, Ava and Oliver. As a family they spend a lot of time snowboarding in the mountains and going for nice long walks through Devon's beautiful trails and river valley. Katie loves photography, reading and baking as well. If she could eat one meal for the rest of her life it would be Granny Smith Apples dipped in Nutella. YUM!

Local Leaders, New Art Club

Amped!

Come Together, Big Event

Though she’s soft and sometimes quiet she’s much more dorky than she would ever let on. Not the most active person however, she could spend hours drawing, listening to music, or learning new and incredibly odd facts; for example, slugs apparently have four noses. Aside from her unique hobby, there isn’t any who wants to lend a helping hand more. Always there to be a shoulder to cry on and someone to give honest, unbiased advice. She’s incredibly grateful to be able to work with the kids of Local to help the community.

David grew up in Devon and began to attend Local as a youth. He has grown up with a passion for all things music and became a staff member for Local Youth Experience. He now runs the Amped! Music Club program. David is a friendly and outgoing staff member who loves to bring in new youth and provide an impactful environment at Local Youth Experience. David is also currently in his second year at Grant MacEwan in the faculty of Music for composition and percussion.

Trey has been coming to Local since it first opened. He loved participating in the events and volunteer work and has transferred that love to the programs that he leads now. He is eager to lend the youth a helping hand because he has been in their shoes and knows what a difference Local can make in their lives. He leads Big Events and Come Together with enthusiasm and the knowledge of what young people really want to do. He makes sure that Local is a special place for the youth that he works with, just like it was for him when he was growing up as a youth at Local.

volunteers

There’s only three things you need to know about Janelle: she’s 70% tea, 90% awesome, and terrible at math. Janelle’s been involved with Local since its development and is pumped to work with its awesome youth. One day, she hopes to be working as a professional youth counselor when she’ll introduce the radically progressive idea of eating ice cream and crying as therapeutic treatment. She's attending MacEwan University for her bachelors in Child and Youth Care to pursue this goal.

On her off time, Janelle enjoys playing anything except ‘Wonderwall’ on her guitar and ukulele, playing video games, camping, and buying fuzzy socks.

MMDR, Come Together, Big Events

Kyler started out as a youth at Local in it's earliest days. As a youth he acted in three plays with Local's Mighty Morphing Drama Rangers. Nowadays Kyler volunteers at Local three nights a week! He plans to work with youth as a profession some day and Local has given him the opportunity to get a start on that. Kyler enjoys being involved with Local and all the cool cats that go there even though he himself is the coolest of cats.

When he isn't volunteering at Local he can usually be found curled up with his cats and watching Netflix, fighting off alien invasions with his radical superpowers, or goofing off outside.

Amped

Stephanie Bosch has been volunteering with the youth at Local on a weekly basis since July 2015. Stephanie has over a decade of experience performing and creating music as a solo musician and with her band ‘The C’mons’ in Toronto, ON. She is a recent graduate from the University of the West of Scotland where she earned her BA in Commercial Music with distinction. She also holds a diploma in Audio Production from the Harris Institute for the Arts in Toronto, ON. With Stephanie’s eclectic background in music she is looking forward to sharing her knowledge and experience with the youth in order to further their passion for music.

Amped

Jeff is the funniest man alive. He has been working and volunteering with youth ever since he was a youth. He started working with at risk youth in Edmonton in 2003 and continued that on some level until 2014. When Jeff decided to switch career paths and go in to employment counseling he still wanted to work with youth on some level. He found this interesting post on online for a part time position in Devon, the town where his wife Aimee grew up in. The Local youth experience was a perfect fit for Jeff, granting him the ability to have fun with youth and be a part of the local community.

Jeff and Aimee moved to Devon in 2015 and plan to start and raise their family here. Jeff is a famous singer songwriter that no one has heard of. he plays the guitar while riding his mountain bike on the trails in the river valley. He also thinks he is a close relative of Han Solo but many haters dispute his claims.

QSA

Kyle is a tender-hearted human who loves cats, popcorn and push-ups! They have been volunteering with Local since 2016 and help support the youth in running Devon’s first Queer-Straight Alliance. Kyle has a background in social work, and is a personal trainer working with folks in the LGBTQIA+ community.

Born and raised in Edmonton, Kyle is loving the change of country living since moving out near Devon with their partner in 2016. When they are not at the gym, the yoga studio or volunteering with Local, Kyle can be found hanging with their pals and hunting for weird yet educational podcasts.