Senior advisor

Canada School of Public Service

Feb 2021 – Mar 2023

Subject-matter expert Gender-Based Analysis Plus. Design and implement a learning path for GBA Plus in partnership with Women and Gender Equality Canada.

Group Facilitator

New Directions, Counselling and Family Service Ottawa

Jul 2021 – Jan 2022

Facilitate 12 week group education and counselling program on domestic violence and non-abusive ways of resolving conflict for men who were arrested for acts of domestic violence.

Facilitator, Trainer and Training Design and Development Specialist

Graybridge Malkam

OcT 2020 – FEB 2021

Provide training for civil servants on Gender Based Analysis Plus, Authentic Inclusion, and Bias Awareness for our client: the Centre for Learning in Intercultural Effectiveness and International Assistance Policy (CFSC), Global Affairs Canada.

• Facilitation and evaluation of training interventions, programs, courses, seminars, workshops, distance learning or similar projects;
• Design of training interventions, programs, courses, seminars, workshops, distance learning or similar events;
• Design of materials in support of training interventions, programs, courses, seminars, workshops, distance learning or similar events; and
• Participation in other training-related or research activities as appropriate.

Group Facilitator

Living Without Violence

Dec 2020 – Apr 2021

Facilitate 12 week group education and counselling program on domestic violence and non-abusive ways of resolving conflict for men who were arrested for acts of domestic violence.

Project Coordinator

THE AFRO/CARIBBEAN MENTORSHIP PROGRAM, CARLETON UNIVERSITY

Sept 2020 – Feb 2020

The Afro-Caribbean Mentorship Program (ACMP) is an initiative dedicated to supporting the success of African, Caribbean, Black (ACB) and other racialized undergraduate and graduate students on campus, while encouraging them to be confident members in our Ottawa community.

• Develop and manage projects, evaluation, reporting to management, stakeholders and funders.
• Event planning and management.
• Digital production and social media management.

Consultant

Planned Parenthood Ottawa

Dec 2020 – Jan 2021

Support Planned Parenthood Ottawa with the development of a curriculum, a series of classroom-based workshops for students in Grade 9 to reduce teen dating violence among youth of all genders.

Case Worker

John Howard Society of Ottawa

JaN 2020 – Nov 2020

A Different Street provides male identifying youth, regardless of their complexities and challenges, an opportunity to access safe accommodations and utilize intensive on-site supports to assist with their life goals. This program strives to contribute to a reduction in the number of individuals using homeless shelters or living on the street, as well as to intervene with justice-involved and at-risk youth to decrease their risk for future offending and other problematic behaviours.

• Completed standardized assessments to evaluate the client’s risk and need areas, and to develop and implement an intervention plan to address those areas of need;
• Intervention development utilized behavioural, cognitive behavioural and social learning approaches;
• Established with the client achievable, time specific goals, and identified intermediate targets for change;
• Provided structured individual counselling with clients.

Program Coordinator

John Howard Society of Waterloo-Wellington

Aug 2018 – Jul 2019

Coordinated the Partner Assault Response (PAR) program; clients were perpetrators of domestic abuse, and court-mandated to finish the program. The program focused on taking responsibility and developing healthy relationship skills.

• Counseled clients in group and individual settings.
• Case management of criminalized and often vulnerable clients. Responsibilities included intake and determining eligibility, client assessment, determining client needs and client referrals to other services, reporting to management.
• Evaluated and monitored participant behaviours, cognitions, stages of change and motivation in relation to goals and the effects of behaviours on partners, children as well as the client.

Data Analyst

Innodata

Mar 2016 – May 2018

Innodata is an IT company providing services for publishers. My department worked with Wolters Kluwer Belgium, a legal publisher.

• Produced tools for teams, such as such as guidance documents, training documents, process flows, reports, etc.
• Analysed project progress, bottlenecks and efficiencies, project quality and results, project workflow and organizational structure, and data collection methods.
• Reported to senior management and clients in person and in writing, in briefings, reports, meeting preparation materials, memos.
• Facilitated flow of information between teams, management and clients, briefed management on important developments or inquiries, answered client inquiries.

Education

Master of Sociology (M.Sc.) specializing in Gender and Migration
University of Amsterdam

Master of Philosophy (M.A.) specializing in Social Sciences
University of Amsterdam

M.Sc. and M.A. thesis: Prostitution and Sex Trafficking Policies   

Specialization in Law
LL.M. thesis (in Dutch): First as tragedy, then as farce: How the history of the human trafficking offense is still relevant

Bachelor of Sociology (B.Sc.)
University of Amsterdam
B.Sc. thesis (in Dutch): The process of framing

Awards

Founder’s Award for Outstanding Contribution
PACT-Ottawa, 2015

Community Program Award
Crime Prevention Ottawa, 2015

Training

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention
Crisis Prevention Institute
October 2020

Fundamentals of Addiction
University of Waterloo
September 2018

Gender-based Analysis+
Status of Women Canada
May 2018

Introduction to Project Management
University of Adelaide
April 2016

Advanced Anti-Human Trafficking Training Course
AAMS & Ontario Trillium Foundation
February 2015