She is co-director of Critical Cross-Border Conversations, an interdisciplinary knowledge mobilization platform committed to the creation and dissemination of critical, socially transformative research. Her research centers on challenging racial discrimination in social activism, social work and Canadian social policy. She is a first-generation Canadian, born in the Middle East to parents who are Tamil and Sinhalese. At present, she lives and works on the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc territory, the unceded traditional lands of the Secwepemc Nation.