Jenaya Shaw

Jenaya has had the privilege of working at The Navigator as News Editor, Features Editor, and Managing Editor over the last four years. In her fifth and final year, she has taken on the Business & Marketing Managerial role while she completes her Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Psychology and Creative Writing at VIU. In the near future, Jenaya aspires to find the freedom that adulthood promised, and slowly close the gap between dreams and reality.

Volume 57 | Managing Editor

Volume 58 | Business & Marketing Manager

Everything by Jenaya Shaw

Jesse Roper singing into a microphone. Jesse is wearing a hat.

Meeting Jesse Roper

Jesse walks into the Rhino Coffee House in Victoria at nine in the morning. He’s wearing flip-flops and gives off an overall Billabong vibe that...

Behind Shut Eyes

We have evolved to sleep, but why? And why does it take up so much of our day? “Behind Shut Eyes” explores the history of sleep in science, and why...
LAUREN AND I, FEET SPLASHING IN THE WATER, LEANING TO THE PORT SIDE DURING A SAIL. PHOTO BY: JEN BAKER (JENAYA’S MUM)

Sailing the Wild

Sailing the open ocean isn’t a child’s dream summer. But after a few years of adventuring the East Coast of Vancouver Island, the Baker family was...

Mahsa Day

In Nanaimo, the Iranian-Canadian Cultural Society of Vancouver Island is preparing a protest to participate in the global rally of Mahsa Day this...