Verda, owner of Yellowknife Tours, is a tour planner and receptive agent for all-things tourism in NWT. Verda graduated from the University of Alberta in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology. Coordinating events for corporations in Hong Kong and Canada, she has experience in event management and public relations. She also works in customer service for an aviation company in Yellowknife and appreciates dearly the friendliness and hospitable nature of locals. Verda moved to Yellowknife in 2008 to join her family. As a consummate professional, Verda is always cheerful and has developed a reputation for her caring nature.
She served as the Executive Organizer of the China Earthquake Fundraising Group in Yellowknife. As part of the relief effort, she contacted local businesses to garner financial support and arranged for all local media outlets to broadcast the China Earthquake relief effort. She has also been involved in other humanitarian and philantrhopic efforts, including a project in 2010 to provide clean water, by constructing a windmill, to a Tanzanian village. Verda chaperoned 14 youth to the East African nation. In 2012 ~ 2014, Verda was nominated by NWT Tourism and the Premier to Asia for the China Trade Mission. Starting Yellowknife Tours was spearheaded by her dream to share aurora borealis and all its natural beauty to people across the globe.