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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I lead applied behavioural science projects to achieve measurable social impact in partnership with government, nonprofits, and private sector organizations. My work specializes in health and behavioural finance.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

Oversees all business-related operations for a plant-based meal delivery company, including accounting, marketing, e-commerce, client relations, and project management.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Clinical Research: Responsible for daily clinical study tasks, participant screening, and preparing test meals as a part of clinical research services provided to the food industry.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Program Evaluation: Collaborated with stakeholders to develop and design evaluation framework for tailored public health education programs delivered through a public engagement mobile health app in key priority health.
• Data analysis: Worked with large health behaviour datasets to extract data for analysis and reporting.
• Knowledge dissemination: Collaborated with product and marketing teams to develop strategies for dissemination of findings.

Kingston, Ontario

Kingston, Ontario

3x Team Captain of the Queen's Women's soccer team.Represented Canada twice at the FISU Summer Universiade (World University Games) in Taipei City, TPE (2017) and Naples, ITA (2019).

Kingston, Ontario

• Managed the tutoring program within the Queen’s Athletics department for varsity and club student-athletes
• People management: recruited, hired, and managed a team of qualified tutors
• Budget management: managed the program budget and employee timesheet
• Program growth: created partnerships with departments and other student services

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Worked under the supervision of Dr. Mark Tremblay, conducting research targeting the promotion of health and wellness in children and youth, and the prevention, management and treatment of obesity
• Data collection: conducted physical literacy testing in elementary schools, camps, and after-school programs, entered data, and trained staff in data collection protocol for the Canadian Assessment of Physical Literacy.
• Knowledge dissemination: assisted with the creation of a training manual designed for recreation and sport coaches, health unit staff, and teachers and educators to assess children’s physical literacy in a variety of.
• Knowledge synthesis: assisted with the creation of 8 systematic reviews, assessing the relationships between individual and combined associations of sleep, physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and important health.

Master’S Degree, Physical Activity Epidemiology

Activities and Societies: Queen's Women's Soccer

Bachelor’S Degree, Specialization In Kinesiology

Activities and Societies: Queen's Women's Soccer, Varsity Leadership Council