I am a PhD Candidate at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. My research interests are in Southern feminist and phenomenological re-orientations to STEM disciplinary spaces in North America. My doctoral dissertation work looks at how embodied, affective, and ethical engagements of marginalized learners in STEM Educational spaces can dis/orient the white, colonial, and masculine ideological basis of computing and technology.

At YARI Collective, I have co-designed computational simulations and models with newcomer youth that tell stories of their childhood memories from their homeland, experiences of migrating to Canada and their lives as racialized and gendered youth in a neoliberal, colonial state. My work shows that Southern orientations to caring are deeply connected to youths’ migration histories and experiences as racially marginalized learners and these must be centered in our designs and theories of learning spaces in order to re-imagine socially just and equitable futures. Not just that, the racialized, colonial and gendered migration regimes mediate these youths’ experiences in the classroom as they engage in disciplinary work in formal schooling spaces and are systematically pushed out of these spaces. I intend to carry ahead this line of research in my future work.

As part of this research collective, I have also collaborated on co-designing an animation film based on community interviews done by the youth about the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 as well as grown, nurtured and cared for a community garden with the youth that has over the years become a medium for story-telling for the youth about their lives and building a sense of home through finding community. 

My previous degrees are in Philosophy and Cognitive Science.