A PhD student in the Social Justice Institute, I am also a Registered Midwife and an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Midwifery Program at UBC, where I teach, develop curriculum, and support the learning of aspiring midwives through a social justice, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist lens. I am a queer, single parent, a quilter and a lover of homegrown tomatoes.

My research combines my two professional and political interests: perinatal health care and incarceration practices. My pre-midwifery, MA work used Institutional Ethnography to investigate incarceration practices for individuals serving time in prisons designated for women in Canada, specifically those classified as “maximum security”. Building on this, and informed by several years learning, practicing and teaching midwifery, my PhD work focuses on perinatal health care in (and in relation to) the prison context.