I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and a Trudeau Centre Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. My research areas include Canadian Politics, Public Policy, and Comparative Politics. As a historical institutionalist scholar, my research focuses on how states and other political actors exercise their governing power to affect equity outcomes, particularly for marginalized people. My current project is a timely intervention that examines the puzzling phenomenon of racialized and immigrant people's overrepresentation within Ontario’s child welfare system, an under-researched area in political science. 

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Prior to pursuing my doctoral studies, I was the Global Child Protection Officer for one of the oldest and largest child rights development and humanitarian organizations in the world and I integrate that rich public policy expertise in my scholarship.