I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. As the incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP), I will be co-supervised by Professor Debra Thompson at McGill University and the IRPP.

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My research areas include Comparative Politics, Public Policy, and Canadian Politics. As a historical institutionalist scholar, my research focuses on how states and other political actors exercise their governing power to affect equity outcomes, particularly for marginalized people. My current project is a timely intervention that examines the puzzling phenomenon of racialized minority and immigrant people's overrepresentation within Ontario’s child welfare system, an under-researched area in political science. Prior to pursuing my doctoral studies, I was the Global Child Protection Officer for one of the oldest and largest child rights development and humanitarian organizations in the world and I integrate that rich public policy expertise in my scholarship.

 

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