Projects

Other work

Teaching, tools, and hands-on/creative work that influences how I think, conduct research, and operate as a person and global citizen.

Tools & Creative work
Tool In progress

Epistemic Reframer

An interactive tool that analyzed drug policy texts to detect their underlying epistemic framing(s), and reframes them through alternative lenses. Built at the intersection of policy analysis, philosophy of knowledge, and a deliberately grotesque bubblegum Y2K MySpace aesthetic for the campy fun of it all. Intended for use in future dissertation research, with a potential public release to follow.

Drug policy Epistemology Interactive
Teaching
TA 2023

PSYCH 306 — Research Methods in Psychology

Teaching assistant for an undergraduate research methods course at the University of Auckland. Supported students in developing quantitative and qualitative research skills, study design, data analysis/R programming, and Kaupapa Māori research principles.

University of Auckland Undergraduate
TA 2026

Statistics for Policy Analysis II

Teaching assistant for a graduate-level econometrics course at the RAND School of Public Policy, supporting students in econometric study design, Stata/R programming, and advanced quantitative methods for public policy research.

RAND School of Public Policy Graduate
Harm reduction
Field Past

Direct harm reduction services

Worked directly in harm reduction, providing needle exchange services, drug purity testing, and street medicine to people who use drugs. This work is where my research commitments became personal — and where I learned that the gap between policy and lived experience is measured in human lives.

Needle exchange Purity testing Street medicine