Central research interest concerns how people, knowledge and institutions are categorized and the influence of these categorizations on our collective ability to respond to racism and debility. I have written about media representations of refugees, co-led media training for refugees, and photovoice projects. Before becoming an academic, I had two careers. First, as an adult educator working with refugees and second, as a communications director and policy advisor in the BC government, focusing on equity and education. I am a member of the Diverse Solidarity Economies collective, which focuses on “The DISE Collective focuses excluded groups in the Global North and Global South who seek refuge in the solidarity and social economy ecosystem because of systemic racism, casteism and business exclusion.”