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Assistant Teaching Professor, Sociology and Politics, Thompson Rivers University
December 2019 – Present

Co-editor of Neos: A Publication of the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group
December 2021 – Present
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Program Co-Chair and Executive Board Member, Society for the Anthropology of Work
January 2020 – January 2022

Term Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Spring 2018, Fall 2019 (Sessional Instructor Fall 2016 and Fall 2018)

Term 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 and 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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