About the Author

Shelby was a content developer at Moving2Canada between 2022 and 2024. Originally a self-taught freelance writer, they got a journalism diploma in 2017 and moved on to be a video journalist and city hall reporter in Kamloops, B.C.

Shelby started writing about immigration in 2019 and did not stop for any plague. Their work was cited in a number of research studies, discussed in a Halifax university classroom, and brought before Canada’s Standing Committee on Immigration and Citizenship in their study on how COVID-19 affected the immigration system.