I am a public health feminist researcher committed to health equity and social justice. For nearly two decades I have worked with communities to understand and improve access to culturally safe health and social services.

My research examines how identity, place, and belonging shape health service access and outcomes, and traces the structural causes of inequity, including colonialism and racism.

Much of my work centers Métis Peoples' health, Indigenous identity and self-determination, reproductive and sexual health and rights. I approach this through a public health feminist lens, an approach that examines how gender, and its intersections with race, class, sexuality, age, and ability, shapes health service access, while centering voices often left out of public health discourse. To carry out this work, I use mixed and qualitative methods within an Indigenous feminist framework, grounded in community-based participatory research.

I hold a CIHR-funded PhD in Public Health Science (Social and Behavioural Health Sciences stream) from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.

I was born and raised in Fort Erie, Ontario, and I am a registered citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario from the historic Métis community of Sault Ste. Marie. My family's relationships to the Great Lakes and surrounding waterways remain an important part of how I understand Métis identity, kinship, and place, and informs how I approach my research: through relationally, accountably, and in a good way.