I am a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria, on the territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and WSÁNEĆ nations.

I recently completed my PhD at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm​ ​​(Musqueam) ​territory​.

My research examines the intersection of food system sustainability, justice and labour, and is informed by critical geography, sociology, political ecology and land system science. As a scholar, I use both qualitative and quantitative methods to advance a participatory and solutions-oriented approaches. I hold a MSc in Land and Food Systems from the University of British Columbia, and a BSc (honours) in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences from McGill University.

I am also an Articling Agrologist (A.Ag) with the BC Institute of Agrologists and a former board member and Vice Chair of Food Secure Canada. My scholarship is informed by my experiences working and volunteering on farms in Canada, the US and Latin America, and my responsibilities as a white settler who has benefitted from colonialism and structural racism.

I live as an uninvited guest on the traditional territory of the Tla’amin Nation in qathet, on the upper Sunshine Coast of BC, where my partner and I are learning to steward 9 acres of mixed agricultural and forested land.