Combining marginalized voices, diasporic literature, and community engagement has been the focus of my teaching and research since I joined KPU’s English Department in 1995. In addition to teaching our second, third-, and fourth-year film studies courses, I am the Director of KDocsFF’s Community Outreach Program and the founder and Editor-in-chief of KPU’s official film studies journal, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration. As a film studies specialist, my research interests include BIPOC representation in film, transtextuality, film festival studies, and documentary activism. My other specializations are digital humanities and service-learning, which have involved teaching community-based practicum courses, co-presenting with students at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, and co-curating an English/Fine Arts ceramics exhibit on the Japanese Canadian internment now on permanent display at Historic Joy Kogawa House. I am honoured to be the recipient of the Faculty of Arts Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award for 2021 and to have coordinated the KDocsFF Alice Street Legacy Mural that was raised in the KPU library in 2023. In 2023, I launched the KDocsFF Social Justice Lab on the KPU Surrey campus.