CV HIGHLIGHTS
Education
PhD (anthropology), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, 2018
MA, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, 2010
BA (hons), Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, 2007
- Dissertation: "To Live My Life": An ethnography of cross-border life and kinship from the perspectives of Filipina/o-Canadian youths
- Supervisory Committee: Professors Parin Dossa, Noel Dyck, and Kathleen Millar
- External Examiners: Professors Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Habiba Zaman
- Funding: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship; CD Nelson Memorial Entrance Scholarship
MA, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, 2010
- Thesis: Transnationally Adopted Children's Perspectives on Place and Identity
- Supervisory Committee: Professors Lisa M. Mitchell and Peter Stephenson; External Examiner: Professor Annalee Lepp
- Funding: SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship; President's Scholarship
BA (hons), Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, 2007
Select Awards
- Promising Alumni Award, Camosun College (2014)
- Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2013-16)
- SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholarship (offer declined) (2013)
- Selected to attend the Delegation of Young Leaders from Simon Fraser University to Taiwan (2013)
- C.D. Nelson Memorial Graduate Entrance Scholarship, Simon Fraser University (2012)
- SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Masters Scholarship (2009-10)
- University of Victoria President’s Research Scholarship (2009)
- University of Victoria Graduate Studies Fellowship (2008)
Select Experience
Lecturer and Sessional Instructor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Fall 2016-Present
Lecturer, Labour Studies Program, Simon Fraser University
Summer 2019
Instructor, Department of Social, Cultural, and Media Studies, University of the Fraser Valley
January 2019-Present
Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
May 2018-April 2019
Contributing Editor / Section Editor, Society for Cultural Anthropology
2014 - Present
Youth Worker and Group Facilitator, Various Settlement Organizations and School Districts
2008 - 2017
Fall 2016-Present
Lecturer, Labour Studies Program, Simon Fraser University
Summer 2019
Instructor, Department of Social, Cultural, and Media Studies, University of the Fraser Valley
January 2019-Present
Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
May 2018-April 2019
Contributing Editor / Section Editor, Society for Cultural Anthropology
2014 - Present
Youth Worker and Group Facilitator, Various Settlement Organizations and School Districts
2008 - 2017
