I am of European and North American heritage, including places that are now called Scotland, Slovakia, Germany, America, and Canada. Many of my teachings come from where I was raised, on the traditional land of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples. I am currently an uninvited guest on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territory. My pronouns are she/her.
I hold undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy from UBC and am now completing a Master of Library and Information Studies at the UBC iSchool. Alongside my studies, I work as a teaching assistant at the UBC Sauder School of Business and as a student librarian with the Small Business Accelerator at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. I also run a small writing and research business and have studied psychology, counselling, and education.
My interests bring together feminist philosophy, Indigenous pedagogies, trauma-informed education, critical information literacy, and community knowledge-building. I am especially interested in equitable access to information and in helping people not only find information, but also interpret and apply it. I am also interested in how, with AI, writers and communities can maintain their voices and agency.
I live in Vancouver with my husband and son. In my free time I like to read and use Japanese stationary.
photo by Shane Conrad Kilgallen
