![]() While still an undergrad, she got a job as an intern working for New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter. But she ultimately followed her father into the resources field.Īfter graduating high school, she spent a few months travelling in Europe, then moved to Washington, D.C., to earn a bachelor’s degree in political communication from George Washington University. She had originally wanted to go into journalism or something in international affairs. The attack was one of the events that prompted her to re-evaluate her life and to come back to Canada.īorn in Regina, Pierce grew up in Calgary, where her father, a lawyer, worked for the oil and gas industry. “I lost a few friends in the towers,” she said. Prior to that, she lived in New York, and was there when the 2001 terrorist attacks took down the World Trade Center twin towers. Twelve years ago, she also worked on the original Keystone pipeline while living in New Jersey. LNG Canada is not the first major energy project Pierce has worked on. In October 2018, the consortium partners formally announced a final investment decision. Her job would include getting the massive LNG project through the environmental review process and working with various stakeholders, government officials, community leaders and First Nations to get the social licence that has become such a critical part of any project in Canada. So she packed up her kids and moved to Vancouver to begin working for LNG Canada, a consortium of five companies with Shell as the biggest stakeholder. No school, house is half gone, my ex lives in Vancouver with his new wife.’ And I’m thinking, ‘Maybe that’s not a bad idea.’” ![]() The school that her two children attended had also been so badly damaged in the floods that it was condemned. “The house that I just finished renovating, half of it got swept away by the floods,” she recalls. The job would be external relations director for a $40 billion liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia called LNG Canada. “He said, ‘Susannah, would you consider doing a job in Vancouver?’” It was Andy Calitz, a Royal Dutch Shell colleague whom she had known and worked with when she lived in the Netherlands, which she had left a few months earlier. Here’s everything else to know while you wait for an announcement.One day in 2013, Susannah Pierce was in her hometown of Calgary, surveying the flood damage to the house she had just finished renovating, when she got a phone call. Given the positive early reviews, along with a first-look deal Schumer has with Hulu, it’s likely the series will be back. Though Hulu has yet to renew Life & Beth for Season 2, Schumer clearly has a wealth of other experiences to draw upon - and still has all her teen journals to jog her memory, if need be. “Because of these early traumas, we arm ourselves, and it's about letting go and trusting and how to let yourself figure out how to be happy,” she told EW. Through flashbacks to her teen self, Beth begins to learn how she became who she is - and who she wants to become - by learning to express herself and build a “bigger, bolder and more authentic life.” Ultimately, Schumer said the show is about releasing shame and fear. And Episode 9 has a dark moment that’s real.” “There’s an episode where she flashes some boys. “ based on themes from my life, but there is stuff that Beth does that really happened,” Schumer, whose middle name is Beth, continued. Schumer drew plenty of inspiration from her own life while creating and playing the titular character, a successful 39-year-old New York City wine distributor whose life takes a major turn that prompts her to rediscover herself on, yes, a farm. It felt like something I had to get out.” “Being in that place where my parents had gotten married, I started writing this story. “While I was pregnant, we were up there, and I had time to think and slow down and daydream,” Schumer told Entertainment Weekly in February. Amy Schumer got the idea for her new Hulu dramedy Life & Beth while she and her husband Chris Fischer were restoring a 1790s farm her family once owned and lost.
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