About

Me with Worldview’s main collaborator in non-profit work in Tanzania, Mr. Chris Mmbwambo, who runs the NGO TEKUA

I am a Professor of Instruction in Global Health Studies at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois. I grew up just outside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I received a B.A. with Distinction in Anthropology and History from the University of Victoria. When I moved to the USA in 2001, I completed an M.A. in African and African American Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY (2002), and then an M.A. (2006) and Ph.D. (2011) in Anthropology from the University of Florida, with a certificate in African Studies.

I am also a Board Member for the the 501(c)(3) charity Worldview Education and Care. For the 2016-2017 year, I was a Fellow with The Op-Ed Project, which aims to diversify the voices and issues depicted in the media. For 2019-2020 I was a Faculty Fellow with the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University, which generously supported me to work on my book manuscript on international volunteering in health care settings in Tanzania.