FAQ
 

HOW DO YOU DEFINE YOUR PERSONAL MISSION?

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To create virtual and in-person educational programs that will:

• Advance community wellness promotion efforts

• Support food sovereignty initiatives

• Expand current methods for the development and deepening of geoliteracy

• Increase availability of integrative and decolonized culturally sensitive health care for urban migrants and minorities 

• Limit the theft of the intellectual property of indigenous peoples and postcolonial nations carried out in service of proposed technological or medical advances

• Finally, and most broadly, I want to play a part in furthering appropriate clinical and institutional integration of the full spectrum of global health care systems and modalities. This has the potential to radically transform patient journeys, health outcomes, and empower both underserved and "overserved" communities.

 

Lofty goals, perhaps, but all good things begin with small steps.

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WHAT ARE YOUR AREAS OF INTEREST? 

 

I have a broad range of subject matter expertise in the health and social sciences, including:

• Human geography

• 20th century history

• Global South media

• South Asian languages

• Migration studies

• Curriculum development

• Sociology of science

• Ethnomedicine & ethnobotany

• Health and wellness promotion

 

WHAT IS YOUR MOST RECENT INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE? 

​In 2017-2019 I lived in in Johannesburg, South Africa, completing my M.A. in Migration and Displacement (University of the Witwatersrand) in December, 2018.

 

My thesis was concerned with discourses of civil religion in the nationally mandated citizenship curriculum for South African secondary students. This project examined the political aspects of curriculum and its enmeshment with definitions of community identity and prescriptions for belonging.

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However, it is my relationships with many remarkable people in Johannesburg that I value the most. They have taught me more than any coursework or research project ever could. 

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