About me
I’m the Toronto-born daughter of parents who immigrated from South Africa. I have two small Mexican masked wrestlers.
For over ten years, I have followed social justice issues in Canada and internationally, contributing writings on women’s rights, housing and homelessness, child development and children’s rights, poverty, HIV/AIDS, civil rights, climate change, immigration and refugee issues, migrant labour and many other topics to the Globe & Mail, Canadian Geographic, eye weekly, NOW, the Toronto Star, Our Times, High Times, Canadian Dimension, Spacing, rabble.ca, guardian.co.uk, La Vanguardia and many other print and online publications. I have both written and ghost-written op-eds, and I’ve also been a columnist, writing about global issues and social movements for Canadian Dimension magazine.
I studied biology and political science at the University of Toronto, and continue to seek out stories that get at the world from different angles, especially where science and social justice issues connect (that is, everywhere!). My dubious science experience includes studying bat species diversity going up a volcano on an island in the middle of a lake in Nicaragua; dissecting lampreys, cats and fish; and researching meningococcal disease in children in a hospital laboratory in London, England.
Right now I am working on a couple of books: a novel set in Mexico and Canada; a collection of poems inspired by the history of science and the natural world; and a book about the rise of amateur science.
