My research asks how people develop cognitively and socially across the lifespan, how they adjust and find belonging through change, and how those processes unfold in diverse communities and an increasingly digital world.
How people acquire knowledge, build skills, and develop cognitively across the lifespan, and across languages, cultures, and contexts. I study learning as a developmental process shaped by environment, identity, and experience.
How people adapt to new environments, build identity and a sense of belonging, and sustain psychological wellbeing through transition and change, with particular attention to diverse and changing populations.
Community-based participatory research conducted with diverse and racialized communities, centering ethical engagement and research sovereignty, including OCAP principles, so that research is done with communities, not on them.
A current strand of this work examines how technology and artificial intelligence shape development, learning, and wellbeing, applying these long-standing questions to a rapidly changing world.
I work with multi-year longitudinal and mixed-methods designs, pairing the rigor of quantitative measurement with the depth of lived experience, because human development is rarely captured by either alone.
Peer-reviewed research in Frontiers in Communication (2023) and the International Journal of Bilingualism (2025), with a forthcoming book chapter from Routledge (2026).
Co-Principal Investigator on a SSHRC-funded research project, and a Research Associate contributing to community-based research with diverse communities.
Over twenty international scientific and community conference presentations, sharing findings with both academic and public audiences.
The complete, up-to-date publication record is available on the platforms below.
Open to research collaborations, co-authorship, advisory roles, and partnerships across academic and applied settings.