Affiliations

  • Science, Technology, and Policy Fellow, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (2021-2024)

  • Junior Fellow, Massey College (2017-2021)

  • Graduate Fellow, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto (2020-2021)

  • Graduate Associate, Centre for Critical Development Studies, University of Toronto (2016-2021)

  • Graduate Associate, Centre for Feminist Research, York University (2015-2016)

  • Member, Canadian Association of Anthropology

  • Member, American Association of Anthropology

  • Member, Canadian Association for the Study of International Development

Previous Research Projects

  • Research Assistant, Africa ProActive, supervised by Dr. Girish Daswani, https://www.africaproactive.com/about

  • Research Assistant, University Worlds Research Group, supervised by Dr. Mariana Valverde, http://universityworlds.ca/

  • Coordinator, “Virtually There,” Graduate student online conference organized in light of COVID 19

Professional Experience

  • Community Resilience Research Portfolio Manager, Centre for Security Science, Government of Canada (2024-Present)

  • Mitacs Canada Science Policy Fellowship, Centre for Security Science, Government of Canada (2021-2022)

  • Program Manager, Agricultural Extension Services, Engineers Without Borders Canada, Ghana (2012-2014)

  • Program Officer, Agricultural Extension Services, Engineers Without Borders Canada (2011-2012)

  • Assistant Communications Coordinator, International Women’s Health Program, Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), 2010

  • Junior Policy Analyst, Multilateral Institutions and Development Policy Division, (Formerly) Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT), 2009

  • Strategic Relations Officer, Office of Small and Medium Enterprises (OSME), Outreach Division, Public Works and Government Services Canada, 2008-2009

Organized Conferences and Workshops

Education and Knowledge Sharing

  • Institute of African Studies (IAS) Emerging Scholars Conference. Worked with the volunteer team to organize the first graduate and emerging scholars conference at the IAS at Carleton University. (2024).

  • “Africa ProActive,” Supported organization of a conference to discuss citizen, civil society, and artistic responses to corruption in Ghana. (2022)

  • “Virtually There,” Lead organizer of an alternative conference for graduate students to present research virtually due to academic conferences cancelled for COVID-19, in collaboration with Ethnography Lab and Archaeology Centre. (2020)

  • “Anthropology Careers Beyond Academia,” Professionalization Committee, Department of Anthropology (2018 and 2020)

  • “Medusa Graduate Student Conference,” Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Coordinating Committee Chair (2017-18) and Coordinating Committee Member (2016-17)

  • “Presentation Skills for Learning,” Organized and facilitated a workshop for graduate students on giving presentations that are guided by learning pedagogies, York University (2016)

Feminism, Equity, and Anti-Oppression 

  • “Anti-oppression in development dissertations,” Co-organized a capacity building workshop for graduate associates of Centre for Critical Development Studies, University of Toronto, with funding from Canadian Association for the Study of International Development and the Canadian Council for International Cooperation. In collaboration with @NoWhiteSaviours and Anova. (2020)

  • “Intersectional Gender Audits,” Co-organized a global webinar to capture lessons learned on integrating an intersectional analysis in the practice of gender audits. In collaboration with Internationalistas. (2019)

  • “Feminist Salon,” Co-organized and co-facilitated a discussion-based program on key issues of gender and feminism to mark International Women’s Day, Massey College (2018)