MASB’s Work
MASB brings together research, consulting, writing, teaching, and public scholarship. Building on my experience in academic and public-sector settings, it is a home for my scholarship and reflections on Scripture, faith, and everyday life, and a platform for research services and future collaborations.
Research & Consulting
My research experience includes qualitative fieldwork in Jamaican garrison communities, alongside research and policy work in academic and public-sector settings. Through MASB, I offer support with qualitative research, literature reviews, policy and program analysis, community engagement, and report writing. My approach centres lived experience, attends to power and context, and emphasizes respectful relationships with the people whose knowledge informs the work.
Writing & Scholarship
My scholarship examines justice, power, race, and community life, with a particular focus on Jamaican garrison communities. Drawing on Black feminist and decolonial thought, I explore how lived experience and community knowledge can challenge established explanations and deepen our understanding of social life. My published work includes journal scholarship, a co-authored book chapter on decolonization, and a co-authored article for Times Higher Education.
Journal Article
The Garrison and the Jamaican State: A Model for Co-optation
Co-authored Book Chapter
Decolonization and Anti-Racism in Criminology: Student Perceptions on Faculty Teaching Practices
Co-authored Article | Times Higher Education
Why is self-reflection core to decolonisation and anti-racism in the academy?
Faith & Public Scholarship
Through the MASB Research Consulting YouTube channel, I explore Scripture through a Christ-centred lens, bringing research, critical inquiry, and lived experience into conversation. My reflections engage questions of identity, power, relationships, and everyday life, inviting viewers to think deeply, reflect on their own experiences, and join the dialogue.
Speaking & Teaching
Speaking
My speaking experience includes two invited fireside chat sessions for the Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards (CAREB-ACCER). These sessions combined presentations and discussion on colonial legacies in research ethics, self-decolonization as a qualitative researcher, and addressing anti-Black racism in research beyond good intentions.
Teaching
My teaching experience includes facilitating university-level tutorials across criminology and law, including Canadian criminal law, human rights and civil liberties, criminological theory, and sociological and psychological explanations of crime.
Through these experiences, I have supported students in engaging with complex theoretical and legal concepts, examining legal principles and judicial reasoning, and developing critical analytical skills.
My broader teaching and facilitation experience also includes research ethics, anti-racist and decolonial approaches to knowledge production, and church-based discipleship teaching and youth leadership.
Explore a Collaboration
If you have a research question, project idea, speaking or teaching opportunity in mind, I welcome a conversation about how my experience and approach might contribute.
