lives & works on the rightful, ancestral, and unceded land of the xwməθkwəy̓əm Nation
CURRENT RESEARCH
1. Knowledge infrastructures during rapid environmental changes, both global and local.
2. Strategies for libraries operating and aiding during the long-term recovery process after disaster impacts their communities.
EDUCATION
2025
Doctor of Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies (in progress), University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, British Columbia
2024
Master of Arts/Master of Library & Information Studies in Digital Humanities; University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
2020
Climate Change Policy certificate (in progress); program discontinued, Yukon University, Whitehorse, Yukon
2013
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, British Columbia
PUBLICATIONS (NON-REFEREED)
2024
We Were Here: a waypoint for library workers in a changing climate circa 2023 CE & 1.47 ± 0.09 °C above the preindustrial average [thesis]
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
2025
“Place-based Planning”, Council on Library & Information Resources (CLIR) Climate Resiliency Action Series, March 2025 [invited remote workshop co-facilitator]
“Climate Impacts, Natural Hazards, and Your Library”, Stronger Together Library Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, October, 2025 [workshop co-facilitator with Shott, S.]
2024
“Speculative Library Design for Climate Action”, Petrocultures 2024: Los Angeles, May 2024 [remote presentation]
2023
“reLibrary: Community, Knowledge, and Systemic Climate Action”, The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Inaugural Greening Libraries Conference, November 2023 [remote presentation]
“MACK Framework: Situating Climate Action in Local Library Contexts”, IFLA ENSULIB Satellite Meeting,Tilburg, Netherlands, August 2023 [workshop]
“Public Relations(hips): Balance, Choice, and Climate Change”, Politics of Libraries V, April 2023 [remote presentation]
“A Young Librarian’s Primer for Climate Action”, 2023 Forum for Information Professionals, February 2023 [remote presentation]
2022
Graduate Research Assistant, Linked Open Knowledge Initiative (LOKI), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
“Discussion on Libraries and Digital Environments”, 2022 Forum for Information Professionals, March 2022 [panel]
2021
“Climate Change_Libraries: Filling a Lacuna”, Open Ideas @UAL 2021, December 2021 [poster]
Vice President (Internal), Digital Humanities Students Association (DHSA), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
2020
Graduate Research Assistant, reFIG Gaming the Curriculum wiki, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
RELEVANT NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2025
Member, Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA) Climate Action Committee
Student Representative, British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) Climate Action Committee
Makerspace Assistant, Edmonton Public Library, Edmonton, Alberta
2022
Graphic Design & Research Assistant, YEG Police Violence Archive, Edmonton, AB
2021
Research Team Coordinator, Shamair Turner for City Council
Municipal Election Campaign, Edmonton, Alberta
2015
Art Mentor, iHuman Youth Society, Edmonton, Alberta
Comic Book Artist-in-Residence, Happy Harbour Comics, Edmonton, Alberta
AWARDS
2024
British Columbia Graduate Scholarship
UBC Four Year PhD Fellowship (4YF)
UBC Faculty of Arts Graduate Award
UBC President's Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award
2023
Dr Heidi Julien Professional Development Award in Library and Information Studies
J Gordin Kaplan Graduate Student Award
University of Alberta Graduate Students' Association (GSA)
Academic Travel Grant
2020
Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship