I am committed to academic work grounded in anti-oppressive principles that honour the inherent dignity of all people. My research and teaching centre Indigenous perspectives, decolonial methodologies, and the unapologetic amplification of marginalised voices. Guided by trauma-responsive approaches, I integrate social justice and activism throughout both my teaching and research practice.
Educate. Evolve. Elevate.
Engaging Teaching & Research as Praxis and Acts of Service
Welcome
I created this website to share my research, insights, and passion for knowledge with colleagues, students, and fellow travellers on the path of critical inquiry. Here, you’ll find a range of material, from exhibitions co-created with research participants to disseminate study findings, to my explorations in arts-based inquiry, paper presentations, and online course offerings.
My work is rooted in a continuous interrogation of how the trauma of coloniality is inscribed in my somatic experience of the world, in the work I do, and in the futures I imagine. I draw deep inspiration from the life and work of Guyanese Pan-African scholar and activist Walter Rodney, whose legacy calls us to challenge the epistemological foundations of the academy and confront the ways researchers and educators may perpetuate systems of harm.
This space is an invitation: to push the boundaries of knowledge, to reimagine what it means to engage in research with and for marginalised communities, particularly those in the Caribbean, Africa, and the wider diaspora. Our work is incomplete if it is not accessible. Scholarship must make its way into the public domain in meaningful ways. Otherwise, who are we truly serving?
As you navigate these pages, I hope you find something that stirs your curiosity and speaks to your own commitments. Thank you for visiting, I invite you to explore, reflect, and engage with what lives here.
“…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