Co-Vice Chair & Education & Training Lead
Paula Romanow joined the CAPLA board in 2022. In many ways, she is the poster child for RPL and the concept of transferable skills, having had a rather eclectic career over the last 45 years, starting with a variety of communication roles: television news and documentary producer/director, freelance writer and journalist, military public affairs officer, and entrepreneur. In the 1990s she became active in community-based education and rural community development, starting to teach at the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) in 1994 and in the Communications Studies Department as well as the Faculty of Education (Lifelong Learning) at Mount Saint Vincent University in 1999. After a few years working as an itinerant researcher while attaining her MA in Adult Education (2002) and PhD in Communication (2007), she joined the NS Career Development Association (NSCDA) in 2013, eventually becoming executive director; in 2017 she moved to the Centre for Employment Innovation, Coady Institute, St. Francis Xavier University, in Antigonish NS as Manager Research and Evaluation, and last year became Senior Program Staff - Special Initiatives within the wider Coady Institute.