Master of Science: Geography, Urban, and Environmental Studes.
Two year masters research program, September 2024 - April 2026
Our project is titled: Towards a Carbon Governance Living Lab: Designing and Testing Local Decarbonization Experiments.
Split advisory between Concordia University's Department of Geography, Urban, and Environmental Studies and the Department of Business Management, I get a cross-faculty, interdisciplinary research experience to look at new and experimental governance structures to work towards decarbonization.
My research is taking a particular interest to the governaning mechanisms of labs for socioecological transitions:
multi-stakeholder partnerships, the incorporation of user feedback, and the overarching process to foster innovative and societal change to build decarbonized cities.

Teaching assistant to a 3rd year undergraduate course on the economic development of urban regions.

Courses included:
- Climate Policy and Corporate Responses
- Sustainability Reporting
- Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting
- Greenhouse Gas Validation and Verification
- French! This one is just for fun!

Over nearly three years, I worked as a bookseller in a lovely independent bookstore in uptown Waterloo.
When not selling the books themselves, I read voraciously, both on and off the clock. With books specifically, I read, sold, reviewed, recommended, marketted, and editted books. I also helped run the Instagram, organised new marketting and display strategies, and ran events- such as author signings and meet-and-greets.

To boost my data analytics skills acquired throughout my undergrad and research assistantships, I got a post-grad certificate in it!
Throughout this certification process, I studied the following:
- Dashboarding
- Prediction
- Regression
- Prescriptive Analysis
- Ethical uses of artificial intelligence
This was primarily an exercise to use my pre-existing skills in data for science to translate into corporate environments to help me jump-start into my career.

My undergraduate degree in geography allowed me to take a wide breadth of courses and find unique ways of bending disciplines together. My passions in environmental issues, political issues, and economics were fulfilled by studying a specialisation in "Society and Economics", to which is recognised on my diploma.
Within the Department of Geography and the larger Faculty of Environment at University of Waterloo, I took varying courses across environmental science, sustainability management, statistics, data management, political geography, and economic geography.
Through my electives, I focussed on international development, Indigenous issues, philosophy, and english rhetoric.
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"Transnational Solidarity: A Methodological Assessment of Sentiment Analysis in Digital Geography" was a methodological efficacy assessment of utilizing Python-based machine learning tactics to study social media comment sections.
Using Python, I mined 39,000 Instagram comments from bite-sized infographic themed Instagram pages with the theme around world events and actvism, and analyzed them, both by hand, and using a natural language processing (NLP) open-sourced tool.
This research was done to explore the utility and accuracy of using sentiment analysis for social media research, as well as to create a framework to analyze international solidarity commentary with geopolitical events- with a special interest into the notion of "performative activism".

Worked with a postdoctoral fellow and group of researchers in lacustrine paleolimnological research for land-use and climate change impact research studies.
Four month coop position collecting and analyzing nutrient and elemental composition data in lake sediment for impact and causation trends. I was granted a Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Undergraduate Research Award for my work. Improved skills in Python, R, and statistics for environmental data modelling.

Collaborated with a team of 13 as an upper year student mentor to a residence floor of first-year environmental studies students. I ran study halls, tutored, and advised student transitions into university.

Worked alongside Indigenous knowledge keepers to research and pass on sacred teachings, language, song, and culture. I created and managed a land-based ecology and community focussed curriculum.