Biography

I have always been drawn to stories of people collectively organising to bring about social change. After gaining experience in New Zealand, this passion took to me to Northern Uganda where I have lived and worked as a researcher and grassroots community organiser supporting local activists tackle social, environmental and land rights campaigns since 2013.

My PhD at Cambridge, completed in 2023, drew on ethnographic, archival and activist-research methods to examine political action in response to large-scale, state driven land expropriation in northern Uganda. The issues I explored intersect discussions on peasant resistance and African land regimes–institutional arrangements linking forms of public authority, political identity, administrative territory, and property rights.

My new role as Peace and Justice Coordinator with the Anglican Diocese of Northern Uganda will focus on building peaceful solutions to regional large scale land conflicts.

Previous Education

University of Canterbury