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Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Spring 2018, Fall 2019-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

Sessional Instructor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Fall 2016 and Fall 2018

Contributing Editor / Section Editor, Society for Cultural Anthropology
​2014 - 2019

Youth Worker and Group Facilitator, Various Settlement Organizations and School Districts
2008 - 2017

Education

PhD (anthropology), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, 2018
  • 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
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BA (hons), Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, 2007

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