Hi! I am a writer, researcher, instructor, and technologist.

My work is focused on the politics of mental health and the development of emotion-AI systems to improve social and economic outcomes. I have a Ph.D. from York University, where my dissertation focused on the political economy of anxiety and the rise of biomedical industry, and an M.A. in International Relations from McMaster University.

I am also co-founder and managing director of EiQ Technologies Inc., an emotion-AI startup previously incubated at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Creative Innovation Studio, and a lecturer at Humber College and OCAD University, where I teach mental health, research methods, and social policy courses. I was also a research associate at Lakehead University’s Re-Imagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL), where I co-directed the Conspiracy Games and Countergames Project, exploring the intersections of gamification, politics, anxiety, media, and community.

I have written and co-edited numerous books and articles on mental health policy, political economy, media and gamification studies, emotion-AI, labour, and social theory. These include: Anxiety as a Weapon (AU Press forthcoming 2025); Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left (Fernwood Publishing 2020); One Road, Many Dreams (Bloomsbury Publishing 2019); The Radical Left and Social Transformation (Routledge 2018); A Schizo-Stroll (Permanent Sleep Press 2017). For more, see my research page.