“Professional” Summary

As a late-diagnosed neurodivergent, I now see why my interests vary so much and why I pivoted most of my life. I went from pursuing a career in medicine, to law, to humanities, and now settling down and making a home in decolonial studies and all the liminal spaces it provides. I have an Associates degree in Paralegal Studies, a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on English and Psychology with a minor in Philosophy and Political Science, and two Masters: Social Work (with Honours) and Research in International Relations (with Merit).

I have been in the public sector and non-profit field since I was 18 years old, where I volunteered for organisations like NYPIRG, interned in NYS Senator’s office, or protested budget cuts and lobbied for housing initiatives at Albany. From internal Implicit Bias trainings to COP26: People’s Summit, I have facilitated workshops, trainings, and spoke at various panels and events. With over a fifteen years of experience in this field, I have honed a nuanced view that pulls seemingly disparate information together to highlight the relationships between them.

I am currently a PhD candidate in International Relations and Politics at the University of Glasgow where I’m studying institutional practices, power, and our relationship to them. In academic language, I am studying (de)coloniality through the prism of security, silence, and trauma using semiotics and narratology as the medium by which we perpetuate the colonial matrix of power.

I am dedicated to (de)linking ourselves from modernity in all aspects and building new, plural futures that are rooted in practices of care. As a result, I also founded Plutonian Consulting, an international consulting agency to steward people, organisations, businesses, and officials through the process of challenging the colonial logic to nourish the foundations our futures will be built upon for equitable and liberated plurality.