Aggie received a BA in Humanities from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC in 1982; a BSN from the University of Washington in 1996; and a Master of Public Health from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC in 2009.
Aggie has been an RN for 29 years, with clinical experience in public health, oncology and research. While completing her MPH, Aggie became intrigued by research, and looked for a role that would combine her love for nursing and her passion for research. For 15 years, she worked as a research director for Providence Health Care, leading initiatives that supported nurses and other clinicians to tackle their own practice-based research and knowledge translation projects, to improve patient care and the health care system. She retired from her full-time role in Jan 2025, and now volunteers and consults on health care and climate action projects. She is a co-founder and Board member of the New Westminster Climate Action Hub, and serves on the Board of the RN Foundation of BC, where she leads initiatives to support and encourage Indigenous students to choose nursing as a career.
Aggie has two young adult children, Annie and Ben, and she loves spending time with them and her husband, Tim, hiking, camping, gardening and cooking. She is active on climate change issues in her home and her community, and has been inspired by her work with CANE-BC on a variety of issues.
