Below you will find an overview of my education, publications, research, and select presentations. For an up to date and comprehensive copy of my CV, please send me an email.
Education
2019 – 2024 | Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies, Sustainability, PhD, University of British Columbia, Okanagan. syilx territory and Kelowna, BC, Canada.
2016 – 2019 | Master of Science, Communication, Health and Life Sciences, Wageningen University and Research. Wageningen, The Netherlands.
2010 – 2015 | Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, Environment Studies, McGill University. Montreal, QC, Canada.
2011 – 2012 | Visiting Student, minor in Economics, University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Publications
Human-riparian relating at valley-bottom : modes, methods, and marshes (2024), PhD thesis, University of British Columbia Okanagan
riparian (2023), book contribution, in Aquatic Encounters, Rooftop Press, edited by Anastasia Khodyreva and Elina Suoyrjö, curated by Tuukka Kaila.
Semá:th X_ó:tsa: Fringe Natures as Decolonial Feminist-Queer-Trans Water Imaginaries (2024), book chapter written with Astrida Neimanis, in Routledge Handbook on Gender and Water Governance, edited by Margreet Zwarteveen, Seema Kulkarni, Lisa Bossenbroek, Tatiana Acevedo-Guerrero and Irene Leonardelli.
This Is Not a Photograph: A Collection of Conversational Mini-Stories, Experimenting with Text and Texture (2023), contribution to NiCHE (Network in Canadian History & Environment | Nouvelle initiative Canadienne en histoire de l’environnement) as part of their Digital Natural History series edited by Nick Koenig and Heather Rogers.
Fringe Natures: Collaborative Reflections on Method (2022), zine written in collaboration with Yazdan Gordanpour, Chhavi Mathur, Dani Pierson, Xiaoxuan Huang, Yujie Gao, Judee Burr, Juan Sotelo, Maria Sanchez, Astrida Neimanis, and some plants. Published by the FEELed Lab.
Affordances and the logic of the gift (2022), book chapter written with Jelle Bruinenberg, in Affordances in Everday Life: a multidiscplinary collection of essays, editied by Z. Djebbara. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-08629-8_3
Baby Elephant. Medium: Fuzz. (2021) The Urban Field Nationalist Project.
I Said No. (2020), Commoning Ethnography, volume 3, issue 1. p. 136-143. doi: 10.26686/ce.v3i1.6654
A Shaded Understory: Interacting with associated species in Trinidadian cocoa agroforestry (2019), master’s thesis, Wageningen University and Research.
Research Funding and Awards
2023 | Innovation Grant, Telus Friendly Future Foundation, with Andrew Stauffer.
2023 | Project Grant, City of Kelowna, with Andrew Stauffer and the Rhizome Eco-Social Education Society.
2023 | Graduate Student Research and Travel Award, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, UBC Okanagan.
2022-24 | SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, UBC Okanagan.
2022-24 | ALT-2040 Fund: Program and Learning Experience Enhancement Stream, with Astrida Neimanis and Greg Garrard, UBC Okanagan.
2021-22 | ICER Community Engaged Research Scholarship, UBC Okanagan.
2021 | Graduate Student Research and Travel Award, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, UBC Okanagan.
2020 | Public Humanities Hub Impact Award, UBC Okanagan.
Invited Presentations
March 2023 | Attempting the Ekphrastic: “May be a close up of nature.” Tech talk #8, AMP Lab, UBC Okanagan.
February 2023 | Brandt’s Creek: a story of settling on a floodplain and riparian habitat that became, Knowledge Mobilization and Sustainability Policy, Interdisicplinary Graduate Studies, UBC Okanagan.
February 2023 | Corrugating Attentiveness: A Presearch Methodology, Creative Exchange workshop, Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter.
February 2023 | Waste places: A question of habit and habitat, Waste and Society, Geography, University of Exeter.
October 2023 | A question of habitat: Brandt’s Creek, Kelowna. Research Series, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, UBC Okanagan.
February 2022 | Corrugating Attentiveness: A Presearch Methodology. Starting a Conversation, Institute for Community Engaged Research, UBC Okanagan.
Select Experience
Research
2022-present | Riparian Re-Animation, researcher and project co-ordinator, a community and research creation (giant) puppetry project. Canada.
2022-present | Kelownafornia: Cultures of Nature of the Okanagan, project manager, UBC Okanagan. Canada.
2023 | Creative Exchange, visiting researcher-artist, Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter. UK.
2021-22 | FEELed Lab, graduate research assistant, UBC Okanagan. Canada.
2021 | WaterWays, graduate research assistant, UBC Okanagan. Canada.
2020-21 | Educating Riparian Attention, a photo journaling presearch project, UBC Okanagan. Canada.
2019-22 | Enhancing Ecosystem Sustainability: a Syilx/Settler Science Collaboration, graduate research assistant, UBC Okanagan. Canada.
2019-22 | Kelownafornia: Cultures of Nature of the Okanagan, graduate research assistant, UBC Okanagan. Canada.
2017-19 | A Shaded Understory, researcher, investigation of the land-based knowledges integrated into daily practice cocoa agroforestry, Wageningen University and Research. The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
2018-19 | SusWalFood, researcher, investigating the success factors of small and medium enterprises processing and marketing non-timber forest products from old-growth walnut forests in Kyrgyzstan, Hochschule Rhein-Waal. Kyrgyzstand; The Netherlands; Germany.
2018 | Agroforestry in Lelystad, student researcher, designing a viable agroforestry system for positive impact on pollinator and natural predator insect populations in the Flevoland province of the Netherlands, Wageningen University and Research.
2018 | Seed to Seed, collaborator, development of a seed-saving curriculum to bring high school students out of the classroom and into the dirt, Brentwood College School.
2016 | Use Potential, collaborator, a displaced peoples inclusion initiative writing a culturally sensitive and respectful, scalable set of questions to be used to capture information regarding skills, knowledge, and training of persons seeking asylum. The Netherlands; Germany.
2015 | Metabolic, research intern. The Netherlands.
2015 | Montreal Urban Sustainability Experience, student researcher, a proposal to the city for modification of the building code to include mandatory gray water recycling. Canada.
Teaching
2020 | Ethnobotany, graduate teaching assistant, UBC Okanagan. Canada.
2017-18 | Boost, English Tutor. The Netherlands.
Volunteer
2021-present | Rhizome Eco-Social Education Society, board member. graduate teaching assistant, UBC Okanagan. Canada.
2020-22 | Behavioural Research Ethics Board, student member, UBC Okanagan. Canada.
2020-21 | Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Sustainability theme committee, student member, UBC Okanagan. Canada.
2020-21 | Scholarly Integrity Advisory Board, member, UBC. Canada.
2018 | Metchosin Farm, intern. Canada.
For an up to date and comprehensive copy of my CV, please send me an email.
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