Recent/Highlighted Research Works
Social Justice Chatters Matters
(A Podcast Series)
The podcast series hopes to capture the voices of racialized and marginalized people to help them amplify their voices and share their valuable insights. To fulfill the goal of creating equitable opportunities in post-secondary education it is essential that we hold this space and bring attention and focus to South Asian perspectives. Chatters Matters fosters vital conversations on social justice.
Project SSHRC-IDG
A Critical and Comparative Exploration of Secondary School Social Justice Initiatives in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal
As Canada increases in its diversity, including a growing immigrant population, and an expanding emphasis on equity, diversity, and inclusion in social and government institutions, Canadian youth have become vocal advocates for their individual and cultural identities. As such, the public school system has been tasked with being responsive to such diversity.
What is the role of secondary schools in advocating for social justice? What kinds of leading examples are currently present in our urban schools?
Project IRF
An exploration of two exemplary secondary schools committed to social justice in Kamloops Thompson School District (No. 73)
This study explores exemplary social justice initiatives at the school level at two high schools, one in an urban location and one in a rural location, that self-identify as schools that advocate and promote social justice. The research provides insights from administrators, teachers, and staff on who is conducting such initiatives, how are these initiatives sustained and what are the benefits, challenges, and possibilities of such initiatives in the schools. The significance of the study is to provide Canadian scholarship that contributes to the field of social justice education in Canada.
Research Related Service
My research often uses a social justice lens that draws on critical pedagogy informed by prominent works by Freire, hooks, McLaren, and Giroux and critical race theorists such as Delgado & Stefancic, Crenshaw, Alexander, and Bonilla-Silva, I create a space for listening to counter-narratives and analyzing power, privilege, and oppression at micro and macro levels. I have participated in the following:
External Examiner for PhD Dissertation (University of Windsor)
“School Boys and Hockey Masculinities: Exploring the Negotiation of Gender Identities Among Boys Within Hockey Academies”- by Dan Zagordo
December 2025
Reviewer for the European Journal of Education
November 2025 – Current
Reviewer for the Critical Studies in Education
November 2025 – Current
Founder and Editor of Journal of Social Justice Education
June 2025-Current
External Examiner for Tenure and Promotion of Assitant Professor (Nippising University) to Associate Professor with Tenure
June 2025
External Examiner for PhD Dissertation (Queen’s University)
“The Narrow and Deep: A Graduate Student of Colour’s Journey as an Anti-Racist Educator”- by Clarissa Mae de Leon
June 2025
Member on TRU Adjudication panel for Internal Research Fund
February 2025
Partnership Founder between CASJE and Critical Race, Indigenity, and Decolonization Journal
December 2024 – Current
Reviewer for the Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
June 2021 – Current
Equity Based Inquiry Research Groups
Teacher Education and Working with Neurodivergent Children
Hirosaki University and TRU Research Partnership Japan and BC based
August 2025- current
Brain Health Coalition (BHC) Research Group Forum
BC based Committee
October 2025- current
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization Advisory Standing Committee for CSSE
National Committee
March 2023- current
Consortium on Race, Education and Law
UBC and TRU
January 2022- September 2023
Closing the Achievement Gap for English Language Learners in math education
UWRF
October 2018 – August 2019
A Critical Internationalization of Teacher Education and University Programs
UWRF
October 2018 – August 2019
Centre for Leadership and Diversity Research Group
Leadership, Higher Education, and Adult Education, UT
September 2015 – August 2017