Experience

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  United nations high commissioner for refugees

  Jun 2008 - Jun 2015

  Protection and field

  •Established partnerships and collaboratively worked with UN Agencies— sexual reproductive health with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), funding for refugee birth certificates with United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), food provision with the World Food Programme (WFP), and resettlement and repatriation processing with International Organization for Migration (IOM)— to effectively support multilateral processes that address specific humanitarian issues in a refugee context.•Managed UNHCR funded projects and provided oversight and support to senior managers and national staff of five implementing and governmental partners responsible for health, education, food, sexual and reproductive health, community leadership and development, and youth support.•Facilitated field missions of governments of Canada, United States, and Australia leading to the resettlement of over 2000 refugees to these countries•Promoted and streamlined the objective of gender equality through training and capacity building of project and partner staff, empowering of over 2000 women and girls while engaging with 3500 men and boys to transform patriarchal and traditional norms that produce unequal power relations. •Monitored the delivery of protection and humanitarian assistance to refugees and asylum seekers, ensuring equal access to and enjoyment of rights of refugee women, girls, boys and men, through effective implementation of signed agreements with partners obligations throughout the project management cycle. Show less

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  Balsillie school of international affairs

  Sept 2019 - Dec 2021

  Graduate research assistant

  • Researched the work of former United Nations High Commissioners for Human Rights for a book project• Revealed insights on the strengths and limitations of the High Commissioner position and the office, and illuminate greater understandings of the challenges and opportunities embedded within the international human rights system and the global multilateral architecture• Developed manuscripts for book chapters and research articles that explore the liberal international order at the intersection of international security, human rights, humanitarian response, and diplomacy Show less

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  Carleton university

  Sept 2020 - Aug 2021

  Research officer

  •Provided support and guidance to research teams in the Middle East (Jordan and Lebanon) and East Africa (Kenya and Ethiopia), focused on how “localized knowledge ecosystems” produce new forms of knowledge that have an impact on policy and practice, to undertake rigorous research that is policy-relevant, theoretically grounded, and empirically sound•Wrote, edited, and submitted a grant proposal for a research project on refugee-led organizations (RLO) that won 382,000 USD from a consortium of donors.•Coordinated the LERRN-IDRC webinar series that focused on several dimensions of forced displacement such as health, education, and refugee participation to produce policy recommendations that are informed by the perspectives of researchers, refugee leaders, policy makers, and community leaders closest to the issues being discussed, reaching over 700 participants in over 48 countries across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe during live sessions and over 800 views (and climbing) on YouTube.•Led and provided ethics and research support to research teams on a study that aims to understand the factors that influence the impact of refugee-led organisations (RLOs) as service-delivery providers in humanitarian settings in East Africa (Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania) and the Middle East (Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey).•Worked with a cross-functional, multi-cultural teams across three continents in a dynamic online environment that required cultural-sensitivity, self-awareness, professionalism, empathy, and leadership. Show less

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  Freedom house

  Sept 2021 - Dec 2021

  Research analyst

  - Mapped the migration and refugee landscape in South Africa to produce a comprehensive report on how limitations in policies and practices in the country render dissidents vulnerable to interference by authoritarian regimes.- Conducted research and highlighted gaps in protection coverage as well as mechanism in state-to-state cooperation that may endanger dissidents.- Recommended migration governance, gender, and displacement policy advice on how to effectively protect political exiles, women, and refugees. Show less

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  University of waterloo

  Nov 2021 - Jan 2023

  •Manage a large, rigorous, and robust project and undertook ethical field research to interrogate the ways governance policies, and practices re/produce and ameliorate precarious conditions, and explored how urban refugees negotiate and challenge restrictive policies and practices•Generate policy-relevant and academic manuscripts in areas of refugee governance, gender, hostility, and resilience to inform discussions in social policy, human rights, and debates in international relations•Presented research findings at over seven academic conferences at international conferences in Toronto, San Francisco, Sydney, and Waterloo Show less -Support ethics application for a research project that critically examines the inherently gendered policies that sustain discriminatory practices of Canada's national security institutions and assesses the potential of policies designed to promote diversity and inclusiveness, including the Gender Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) framework, to counter the discriminatory practices.- Conducted research and highlighted gaps in protection coverage as well as mechanism in state-to-state cooperation that may endanger dissidents.- Recommended migration governance, gender, and displacement policy advice on how to effectively protect political exiles, women, and refugees. Show less

  • Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) in Global Governance

    Sept 2015 - Jan 2023

  • Graduate Research Assistant

    Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
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  Wilfrid laurier university

  Mar 2022 - Sept 2023

  Coordinator, hallman chair research initiatives
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  Simon fraser university

  Dec 2022 - now

  Director of equity, diversity and inclusion (student services)