I am a communications professional, cultural programmer, and writer living, working, and playing on Coastal Chumash territory (Santa Barbara, California). I am currently Assistant Director of the Carsey-Wolf Centre at UC Santa Barbara but have previously served as Director of Marketing and Communications at the Rotary Centre for the Arts and as Communications Coordinator for the City of Kelowna.

I hold a PhD in Film & Media Studies from UC Santa Barbara, and I am a former Doctoral Fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. I also hold a BA in Communication from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University in Montreal.

In 2021, I completed a dissertation project entitled Colonial Recursion and Decolonial Maneuver in the Cybernetic Diaspora. In this project, I explore the points of contact that took shape between the mercurial science of cybernetics and the cultural politics of settler liberalism in Canada and the United States in the years following World War Two. I maintain a scholarly interest in the history and politics of ICT development (particularly the design and use of wireless communication networks in the context of colonial developmentalism) and the geopolitics of autonomous automobility.

Prior to graduate study, I worked extensively in the social mission sector, developing public programs, education initiatives, and national campaigns focused on issues of media democratization and information governance in Canada. Outside of office hours, I maintain a songwriting and performance practice under the name CHAPS, and publish occasionally on questions of gender, sexuality, race, and identity in country music. Some of that writing can be found here.

Other, more important, interests include pie and vermouth.