I am a transdisciplinary socio-spatial scientist whose work draws from myriad fields to understand the conditions in which trans lives are led, and how we can improve trans people’s life chances. I am an Assistant Professor of Geography here at UBC, and an affiliate member of the Institute for Race, Gender, Sexuality & Social Justice. I teach courses on geographic information science and conduct collaborative research on trans health and human rights bringing my methodological expertise in geography, and theory from applied trans studies. In addition, I am a Co-Founder, Distinguished Fellow & Director of Finance at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS). We are a non-profit, academic think tank focused on the application of scholarship on and with transgender communities to law, policy and practice. We publish a platinum open-access journal Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies which is free to publish in and free to read.

I earned my PhD in Population, Health & Place from the University of Southern California in 2022. Prior to that, I earned two degrees in gender studies, an MA from Queen’s University, and a BA from UNC-Greensboro, where I also majored in Religious Studies and French. My current work bridges my humanistic training with my applied and empirical work in health geography.