Master of Science: Geography, Urban, and Environmental Studies.
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 & 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 carbon governance. Firstly, developing the study of carbon governance- what does it mean? what does it entail? Secondly, studying the governance mechanisms of living labs for socio-ecological transitions; analysizing the overlap of practices and procedures between collaborative, climate, and experimental governance.

Additionally:

• Teaching Assistant in the Department of Geography, Urban & Environmental Studies (GPE).
• GPE Department Organizer for CREW-CSN. HAVE YOU SIGNED YOUR UNION CARD THIS SEMESTER?
  

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.

"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. Recognized in acknowledgements in Bhattacharya, et al. (2022).

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.