Ethnographic Research
Empathetic connections.
Ethnographic Research is qualitative, long-term, primary research that uses cultural relativism to understand how people navigate their social and cultural worlds.
Through empathetic engagement in people’s lives, I answer questions such as how do people think, what do they do, what do they want, and, in all these areas, why?
Research as Storytelling
My ethnographic research has taken me from the U.S. to Spain and Canada following the work of social movements and nonprofit organizations as people create positive social change.
Informal Economies
Barcelona, Spain
California State University Long Beach, College of Liberal Arts, Best Thesis
Why wasted food goes to waste?
Vancouver, BC
University of British Columbia, Public Scholars Award
Social Movement Organizing
Vancouver, BC
University of British Columbia, Doctoral Fellowship