Teaching

My teaching spans food studies, social sciences, sustainability, and technology studies. I use interdisciplinary and participatory approaches that encourage students to critically examine contemporary social, environmental, and technological issues.

Course Instruction

Concordia University, Centre for Engineering in Society – Montreal, QC

Sessional Instructor | Fall 2025

ENGR 392: Impacts of Technology on Society

Designed and taught an interdisciplinary undergraduate course examining the social, ethical, environmental, and political dimensions of technology. Students explored topics including artificial intelligence, sustainability, technological change, equity, governance, and the societal impacts of emerging technologies through critical analysis, discussion, and applied assignments.

Alexander College, Department of Social Sciences – Vancouver, BC

College Instructor | 2020–Present

Teach a range of introductory social science courses with a focus on engaging international and first-year students through accessible, interdisciplinary methods.

Concordia University, Faculty of Fine Arts – Montreal, QC

Sessional Instructor | 2015–2018

We Are What We Eat: Introduction to Food Studies

Developed and taught this undergraduate course exploring food systems, sustainability, and critical design thinking through lectures, fieldwork, and participatory assignments.

Workshops & Public Engagment

I regularly design and facilitate workshops that use creative, visual, and participatory methods to explore sustainability, waste, food systems, and technological change.

2026

Encounters: Making Waste Strange

Visual Methods Studio, Concordia University | Montreal, QC

Facilitated a workshop introducing participant-generated photography, visual methods, and critical design approaches for examining everyday waste practices and material cultures.

2022

Recreate, Redesign and Restore: Food Systems of Hope

MTL Connect | Montreal, QC

2021

Everyone Makes Waste: Using Accessible Art and Design Practices to Increase the Visibility of Food-based Waste

Food Matters & Materialities Conference (Virtual)

2018

EAT, WASTE, MAKE for 2030: Experimenting with a Critical Design Process as an Everyday Intervention to Waste Production

Transitions 2018 | Montreal, QC

2017

Encounter 2030: Food Waste and Speculative Visioning

Non-Compliant Futures, Sight & Sound Festival, Eastern Bloc | Montreal, QC

Performing Food, Eating Ourselves: A Little Embodied Course Work

Joint CAFS/CATR Praxis Session | Toronto, ON

What We Waste: Subverting Domestic Food Practices with Experimental Creation-Based Methodologies

Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation Workshop, University of Lisbon | Lisbon, Portugal

2016

Rotting Potatoes: Participatory Making with Food Waste

Interactive Workshop, Concordia University | Montreal, QC

Encounters Between Matters of Food and Waste

Consumption and Detritus Symposium, Concordia University | Montreal, QC