Annelise Beach

Annelise Beach is a social worker, healthcare professional and mother of two young children who has spent the past decade working in social services, including the last several years in mental health and substance use. Annelise grew up in the rural northern B.C. community of Burns Lake and began working at the age of 14. Her early jobs included serving in restaurants and working briefly at a pellet plant before moving to Kamloops in 2013 to pursue a degree in Social Work at Thompson Rivers University.