Media, Public Scholarship and Policy Engagement
I regularly contribute to public and policy debates on climate change, mobility, human security, disaster governance, and refugee protection. My media and public-facing work translates field-based research into accessible analysis for broader audiences while bringing attention to the communities and crises that are often marginalized in mainstream policy conversations. I write and speak across academic, journalistic, and policy platforms to advance more just and evidence-based responses to climate displacement, environmental insecurity, forced migration, and intersecting forms of precarity.
Through advisory roles with UNHCR and collaborations with international NGOs, as well as contributions to UNHCR’s Global Recommendations on Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change, my work engages directly with questions of sovereignty, borders, and protection regimes.
My research has informed discussions within organisations such as IPCC, UNDP, ICRC, and IOM, and has been shared with legislative bodies including Canada’s House of Commons, the Brazilian Congress, and the Bogotá Government, contributing to evolving architectures of climate security and mobility governance
On Here and Now Toronto, talking about why disinformation thrived during the UK anti-immigrant Riots:
“I'm going to ask you to picture a refugee, picture an asylum seeker, picture a migrant. Most of them will come out as a non-white person. The media has forced this image of asylum seekers, migrants, and refugees as being people of colour, racialized people and unfortunately a lot of times undeserving of assistance. So when you have a situation where these people already painted so much with so much negativity, disinformation and misinformation thrives because there's already so much information that contributes to their confirmation bias. So this idea that migrants, asylum seekers or refugees cause crime, a lot of people, unfortunately will agree because of the rhetoric around it. So when you have somebody, you have a situation where that's taking place you don't stop to think ‘oh wait how do we know they're asylum seeker? Or how do we know they're Muslim or how do we know anything?’”
As an immigrant, whose father was a refugee, I care deeply about standing up for refugee and migrant rights. And I will advocate for them in the popular press and on the global stage - every. chance. I. get.
My Writing in the Popular Press
