I am dedicated to academic work grounded in anti-oppressive principles that honour the inherent dignity of individuals. My research and teaching focus on centering indigenous perspectives, decolonizing methodologies, and unapologetically amplifying the voices of marginalized communities. Guided by trauma-informed/responsive approaches, social justice and activism are integrated into both my teaching and research endeavours.
Educate. Evolve. Elevate.
Engaging Teaching & Research as Praxis and Acts of Service
I created this website to share my research, insights, and passion for knowledge with my colleagues and students. You will find a range of material here - from exhibitions created with research participants to disseminate study findings, to my explorations with arts-based inquiry, paper presentations, and online course offerings.
I strive to be engaged in continuous interrogation of the multiple ways in which the trauma of coloniality lives in my somatic experience of the world, the work I do, and the work I imagine. I am inspired by the work and life of Guyanese Pan-African scholar and activist Walter Rodney which calls us to challenge the epistemological order of the academy and the role of researchers and teachers in the perpetuation of systems of oppression and harm
I invite you to consider pushing the boundaries of knowledge and established notions of what it means to engage in research with and for marginalised people - particularly people in the Caribbean, Africa and its diaspora. Our work is incomplete if it is not accessible. All scholarship should make its’ way into the public domain in a meaningful way - if not, to whom are we being of service?
As you navigate through the different sections of this website, I hope that you will find something here that captivates your interest and stimulates your mind. Thank you for visiting, and I encourage you to explore and engage with what awaits you within these virtual halls.
“…the intellectual is an individual in society that confronts orthodoxy and dogma; who cannot be reduced simply to being a faceless professional, a competent member of a class going about his/her business [but] an individual endowed with a faculty for representing, embodying, articulating a message, a view, an attitude, philosophy or opinion to, as well as for, a public ... the intellectual must hold to certain universal standards of truth about human misery and oppression…”
— Edward Said, Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures. New York: Vintage Books: 1996