I recently completed my PhD in anthropology at Simon Fraser University with research and teaching interests in children and youth, family and care, migration and transnationalism, and contemporary anthropological theory. I'm an ethnographer with a keen focus on storytelling and visual methodologies. My doctoral research combined these areas as I explored youths' experiences of migration and long-term family separation as parents laboured in Canada prior to family reunification. More specifically, I am attentive to how structural violence reconfigures kinship, labour, and care within families that are challenged by borders and precarity. This research was generously supported by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. The outcomes of this research have most recently been published in the peer-reviewed journal Children & Society. I am currently a contributing editor and section editor for the Society for Cultural Anthropology where I co-organize the social media team and generate online content for this top-ranked journal.

I'm also a trained facilitator, seasoned youth worker, and now educator. I have over eight years of experience working with migrant and refugee youth in the non-profit sector and delivering anti-oppression workshops in schools across the Lower Mainland. In 2012 I was honoured to receive the United Way of Greater Victoria Youth Worker Award as well as recognition for excellence in youth work from Volunteer Victoria and the Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society. I completed PYE Global's 5-month intensive Heart of Facilitation training in 2014-2015. I apply these skills everyday as I teach anthropology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Simon Fraser University. I enjoy developing and delivering creative, engaging, and relevant classroom experiences to diverse students across the Lower Mainland.