I am an aid worker and academic advancing humanitarian operations through rigorous research and design on pressing technical/operational challenges. I am currently Fellow in Global Health and Humanitarianism at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University where I am working with Dr. James Orbinski.
I have led field operations and research with Médecins Sans Frontières and UNHCR in emergencies in South Sudan, Pakistan, Jordan, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. I have taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Development Impact Lab. My research at Berkeley focused on developing the first ever evidence-based guidelines for water treatment in humanitarian emergencies. I received my doctorate in environmental engineering from the University of Guelph where my research focused on the design of safe water systems for marginalized urban and peri-urban communities (or, pejoratively, 'slums'), and I received and my bachelors in geological engineering from Queen's University.