Research Experience

Lead researcher, An ethnographic study of Black and racialized WISE participants, and their post-WISE employers in the construction industry in Winnipeg, Toronto, and Saskatoon, longitudinal study, 2023-2027. Funded by ESDC and in partnership with Social Enterprise Centre (Winnipeg).

Researcher, Three social enterprises in rural Saskatchewan, 2026. Case study research for Saskatchewan Economic Development Alliance (SEDA).

Lead researcher, Ph.D. research, University of British Columbia, Department of Geography. Thesis: An ethnography of possibility: Finding and forging ‘the otherwise’ in two Winnipeg-based alternative economic development communities, Supervised by Dr. Trevor J. Barnes.

Contract researcher, Opaskwayak Cree Nation, May 2009-October 2010

“Social dynamics of economic performance: Innovation and creativity in city regions,” May 2008-December 2008, PI: Trevor Barnes, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia

“Displacement, gentrification, and the politics of evidence,” September 2007-December 2007, PI: Elvin Wyly, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia

“First Nations and racial discourse in Upper Canada, 1790s to 1860,” January 2003-January 2004, PI: Robin Brownlie, Department of History, University of Manitoba

“Assimilation and enfranchisement of Aboriginal People in inter-war Ontario,” June 2001-August 2002, PI: Robin Brownlie, Department of History, University of Manitoba