About

Hailing from Simon Fraser University with a degree in Psychology, I was fortunate enough to witness early in my academic career the value of research and its many and varied applications in both the public and private sector. While pursuing my education, my first foray into research was alongside a prominent team of physicians in the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia. I helped get off the ground a pan-Canadian, Health Canada funded mixed methods study on mental and substance use disorders (the largest of its kind in the world), and eventually designed my own thesis nested under this project. Here, I examined circadian sleep phase shifts in in-patients with schizophrenia type II and co-occurring opioid and stimulant use disorders (I know. Fancy, neuroscience jargon). 

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Since the early days of my research career, I've grown a diverse client portfolio through grassroots connections in areas of both the public and private sector. Now, I leverage the expertise I gained in my education with what I've acquired through practical experience. A robust background in statistics and coding, data wrangling and cleaning, systematic literature reviewing, and foundational research design are the building blocks I've relied on to assist my clients and develop a new roster of services that I now offer, from grant writing to stakeholder engagement to knowledge translation, mobilization and exchange (KTEM) to evaluations and logic modelling.