I am an applied philosopher and interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS), phenomenology, and the medical humanities.
I completed my PhD in Science and Technology Studies at York University, where I developed a critical phenomenology of chronic pain that reveals how e-health tools (such as symptom tracking and health games) reproduce epistemic injustices. Through processes like datafication and gamification, e-health innovations reshape how chronic pain is measured but also how it is known, felt, and valued. Through qualitative fieldwork, I show how group-based clinics enable more just and playful modes of expression and understanding for people in pain.
Currently, I am a researcher with Connected Minds: Neural & Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society, a Canada First Research Excellence Fund initiative advancing socially responsible intelligent technologies. Within this program, I lead an assessment of co-creation practices across interdisciplinary research teams, helping researchers understand and use collaborative approaches to design ethical and responsible innovations.
About
Reviews
Infographic Interventions (Mind Matters Blog)
Playfulness for Justice (Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare Blog)
A Situated Neurology in Kenya (Mind Matters Blog)
Writing Life Series No. 5: An Interview with Robert Desjarlais (Somatosphere)
Blog posts
The intersectional implications of a quantitative epistemology in pain care and research
Canadian Journal of Pain 2025, w/ Gabi Schaffzin
“Play!”: Combatting pathocentric epistemic injustice in chronic pain care
Qualitative Health Research 2024
Tracking Ambivalence: An existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 2024
“There is Nothing Fun About Pain”: A critical phenomenology of games for chronic pain
Philosophy and Technology 2024
Sensing the Afterlife: Multisensorial ethnography and injured minds
Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography 2024, w/ Denielle Elliott
Sonic Stories, sensory ethnogrpahy, and listening with an injured mind
Multimodality & Society 2022, w/ Liz Lima and Denielle Elliott
articles & book chapters