Experience
Prior to my recent academic roles as a researcher and contract lecturer, I have spent a decade between Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Toronto working for galleries, foundations, art fairs, cultural districts and government entities.  I have curated exhibitions, public programmes, and events that celebrate the work of artists and cultural practitioners, with a particular focus on the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.  I have dedicated my career to developing platforms by which artists, educators and thought leaders are able to build a sense of community and challenge hegemonic narratives.

Recent Publications:

The Capitol Riots: Digital Media, Disinformation, and Democracy Under Attack (2022)
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19 - A Longitudinal Study (2021)

Conferences:

In October, 2022 I presented at the symposium organized by the UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education as a panelist alongside Kevin Jones, Jolaine Frizzell and Rohit Goel discussing Visual Literacy as social action: Photography praxis for social change.
In July, 2022 I presented a paper at the IAMCR Conference on Visual communication and photography praxis: Identifying bias in COVID-19 media imagery.
In October of 2021 I had the pleasure of presenting at the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas alongside Andrea Gambino and Kiran Vinod Bhatia to discuss Critical Media Education as a Peoples’ Movement: Challenging Neoliberal Assumptions and Epistemes.
In May 2021 I took the lead on communications for the  2021 International Symposium on Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education for the UNESCO DCMET Chair.  The symposium featured 42 sessions over the course of five days, accepting over 4,000 registrations from attendees spanning 60+ countries across the globe.  

Community-focused work:

In October, 2020 I led a Visual Literacy workshop with Kevin Jones of Juniper Mind which aimed to provide participants with tools to decode our visual culture.  We examined COVID-19 visuals in mainstream media, encouraging critical thinking and frank discussions about representation. As the Programmes Manager for the cultural district Alserkal I was responsible for the eighth edition of Quoz Arts Fest - a celebration of live music, performance, art, design, and food which welcomed over 38,000 people in two days in January of 2020. In 2019 I produced a large scale exhibition in Manarat Al Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi featuring European Landscape Paintings from the 15th to 19th century as part of the Abu Dhabi Festival 2019, while working as the Senior Manager of Visual Arts for the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation.

I have curated over 30 exhibitions of contemporary photography for Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai’s centre for photography, including work by Laura El Tantawy, Aida Muluneh, Denis Dailleux, and Alia Ali.