Meet Our Students (2022 Winter)
Read the biographies of our DSocSci students below.
Kelly Chahal
Doctoral Student
Kuldeep Kelly Chahal is a Probation Officer who works with individuals who are sentenced to community corrections in order to facilitate interventions to allow offenders to change their criminal behaviours to pro social behaviors.
Bree Claude
Doctoral Student
Bree Claude is the Director of Family and Community Services with Strathcona County. Bree is passionate about engaging citizens to create solutions for the challenges we are facing as a community.
Bobbie Dawson
Doctoral Student
Bobbie Dawson (She/Her) has worked in various leadership positions in the public and not-for-profit sectors for nearly 20 years. Currently the CEO of United Way Northumberland, an organization that brings resources and people together to make the community measurably better, Dawson specializes in organizational culture and communications change management.
Cammie Jaquays
Doctoral Student
Cammie, MBA (Concordia) is Professor Business, Entrepreneurship and Leadership at Niagara College. Cammie has 20 years of university and college teaching experience, fostering an environment of experiential learning and innovative ideation.
Paula Kent
Doctoral Student
Paula Kent retired from her long-term career in retail banking, where she honed her people management, coaching and leadership skills. In 2017 Kent left banking, returning to school to pursue graduate studies in a new sector; Tourism and Hospitality.
Beth Konomoto
Doctoral Student
Beth Konomoto is co-chair of English Language Development at Camosun College where she works with students and faculty. Konomoto believes in using language and technology to level the playing field for all learners.
Dorothy Massa
Doctoral Student
Massa is a social scientist with nine years of experience in research, management, conflict resolution and entrepreneurship. Her research mainly targets policy transformation in Uganda.
Susan Mide Kiss
Doctoral Student
Susan Mide Kiss is the Vice President, Community Engagement portfolio at the University of the Fraser Valley.
Asifa Nurani
Doctoral Student
Asifa Nurani is a public health professional with over 19 years of experience in international development. Through the years, she has developed skills as well as global and cross–cultural competencies and experiences that have taught her the complexities of working in fragile environments.
Cathy Sturgeon
Doctoral Student
Cathy oversees business and strategic partnership development for a top-tier feminist research consultancy that helps international organizations collect, analyze, and take action on gender data. In this capacity, she works across various thematic areas such as climate action, social protection and care, economic empowerment, technology and digitization, gender-based violence, women peace and security, gender data, and social norms.