She has worked across Canada and internationally for adventure tourism companies, the Nikkei Internment Memorial Center and various other special projects. She has attended a National Geographic Expeditions Photographic Workshop in New Mexico and studied Digital Arts and New Media at Selkirk College in Nelson, BC. In 2012, Adele joined filmmaker and director Rachel Schmidt in Guatemala during the first phase of filming Defensora. She continues to be a producing partner and hopes her work will help to raise awareness about the injustices of negative mining practices. Defensora website