Projects

Some of the projects I have had the pleasure of editing.
(All totally brilliant and well worth reading!)

Fernwood Publishing
A political/academic publisher. I did the developmental edit on all of these books and the copy edit on some.

Ideas on Fire
A progressive academic publishing and consulting service

Developmental Edit:

  • Chapter Two of Migration Moves: Arab Dance in the US in the Ebbs and Flows of War (PhD dissertation)
  • “We Are a Fantasy”: Trans Latina Epistemologies for Survival and Community (in progress)
  • Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family: Reviving the Legacy
  • An article about a historic Black court case
  • An article about Black elders and political education
  • A book about Latin American literature
  • A book about Indigenous theatre in the Americas
  • An article about migrant labor
  • A book chapter about revolution in Ecuador
  • An article about US immigration policy and children
  • An article about wildfires in California
  • An article about social movements in Sudan
  • A book about Human Trafficking

Copy Edit:

  • “Computer Games as Landscape Art” (book proposal)
  • A wide variety of articles for Feminist Anthropology
  • Sections of Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity
  • “Collaboration in Virtual Environments: Honouring the Métis Method of Visiting”
  • Articles about Black theatre history
  • An article about sport at an Indian boarding school
  • A proposal for a book about racism in the university
  • A book about disability and schooling
  • A book about representations of Indigenous people in film
  • “Rethinking the Homeless Crisis: Black Spatial Visions for Los Angeles”
  • “His Master’s Voice, Her Jokes: Voice and Gender Politics in the Performance of Rakugo”
  • An article about Indigenous peoples in Japan
  • Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age

Proofreading:

  • Flexible Bodies: British South Asian Dancers in an Age of Neoliberalism (book)

Treatment Action Group
An HIV/AIDS research and advocacy organization

Copy Edit:

  • PReP and Microbicides Pipeline Report 2020, 2024, 2025
  • TAG Annual Report 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • HCV Diagnostics Pipeline Report 2020
  • HCV Treatment Pipeline Report 2020, 2021
  • BMGF Landscape Analysis 2019
  • COVID-19 Policy Brief
  • ACT NOW:END AIDS Community Roadmap Executive Summary
  • ARV Pipeline Report 2021, 2024, 2025
  • Long-Acting Technologies Trials Tracker 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Illustrated Glossary for Long-Acting Technologies
  • HIV Vaccine Report 2022, 2024, 2025
  • TB Pipeline Report 2022, 2023, 2024
  • TB Diagnostics Pipeline Report 2024
  • Breakthrough Infections Factsheet 2022
  • TAGLine 2022, 2023, 2024
  • HIV Cure Research 2023
  • HCV Policy Brief 2023
  • HCV Fact Sheet 2025
  • HIV Treatment Pipeline 2023
  • TB Vaccine Report 2023
  • TAG Activist Toolkit 2023
  • TAG Activist Guide 2025
  • Pregnancy Consensus Statement 2024

Publishers

McGill Queen’s University Press

  • Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Social, Cultural, Political, and Economic Imaginaries (copy edit)
  • Forensic Colonialism: Genetics and the Capture of Indigenous Peoples (copy edit)
  • What the World Will Look Like: Decolonial Stories of Resilience and Refusal (copy edit)
  • Prisoners’ Bodies: Activism, Health, and the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972–1985 (copy edit)
  • The Shape of Thought: Reasoning in the Age of AI (copy edit)
  • International Migration and Social Resilience in Canadian Cities: Places, Institutions, and Policies (copy edit)
  • Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience (copy edit)
  • The Suicide of the Revolution: Del Noce (copy edit)

University of British Columbia Press

  • Our Long Struggle: The Ipperwash Story (copy edit)
  • The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680–1790 (copy edit)
  • Glass Ceilings in the Ivory Tower: Gender Inequality in Canadian Universities (copy edit)
  • After Ice: Cold Humanities for a Warming Planet (copy edit)
  • Drumming Our Way Home: Intergenerational Learning, Teaching, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing (copy edit)
  • Artificial Democracy: The Impact of Big Data on Politics, Polity, and Policy (copy edit)
  • Tending to Kin: Transnational Young People, Tender Labour, and Family Life Across Borders (copy edit)
  • Chrétien and the World: Canadian Foreign Policy from 1993 to 2003 (copy edit)
  • Autism and the Culture of Therapy: The Politics and Practice of Applied Behaviour Analysis (copy edit)
  • Gateways to Trade: Global Value Chains and Governance in Canadian Cities (copy edit)
  • Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance: Tar Sands, Social Movements, and the Politics of Energy Infrastructure (proofreading)

Between the Lines Press

  • Crisis and Contagion: Conversations on Capitalism and Covid-19 (copy edit)
  • The Bund: A Graphic History of Jewish Labour Resistance (copy edit)
  • Ecology for the 99% (copy edit)
  • Abolish Social Work (as we know it) (copy edit)
  • Roles of Resistance: Game Plans for Teachers and Troublemakers (copy edit)
  • Crisis of Social Reproduction (copy edit)
  • Decolonization the Palestinian Mind (copy edit)
  • Invested in Crisis: Public Sector Pensions Against the Future (copy edit)
  • Jenny, Eleanor, and Laura, et al. This Is Not a Book About Marx (copy edit)
  • Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza (copy edit)
  • Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men (copy edit)
  • Partisans: A Graphic History of Anti-Fascist Resistance (copy edit)
  • Troubling Criminology (copy edit)
  • Palestine and Feminist Liberation (copy edit)

Lorimer Books

  • New Brunswick’s First Black Loyalists (copy edit)
  • Crisis in Canada’s Policing (developmental and copy edit)
  • Myths of Modern History (copy edit)
  • Corporate Rules: The Real World of Business Regulation in Canada (copy edit)

University of Regina Press

  • Bread & Water (proofreading)
  • Defining Sexual Misconduct (proofreading)

Individual authors
All levels of edit and more

All Levels of Edit:

  • “Combining disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation for greater effectiveness: Lessons from community-level interventions” (book chapter)
  • Reflective Practices in International Social Work (PhD dissertation)
  • “Black Immigrant and Refugee Men in Canada” (journal article)
  • In Practice: Liberatory Teaching and Learning (book)
  • Middle America: The Role of Emotion in a Cancer-Cluster Town (dissertation to book)
  • An Institutional Ethnographic Inquiry Into Policing and Investigation of Migrant Sex Workers (PhD dissertation)
  • Healing Life Wounds: Restoring Communities After Mass Violence (book)
  • “Romancing AI: Gender and New Digital Intimacies in Contemporary Japan” (journal article)
  • Making Bonavista Work (photoethnography)
  • Mirror of the Soul: Law, Language, and Gender under the French Protectorate of Morocco (1912-1956) (book)
  • A dissertation about being a Black woman police officer with the Toronto Police Department (PhD dissertation)
  • Lost Cause: Art and Politics at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (book)

Developmental Edit:

  • Media Hoaxing: The Yes Men and Utopian Politics (book)
  • Critical Disability Studies and Special Education Programs (MA thesis)
  • “Suffering, Silence, Community Brokenness and Mental Health in Post-Genocide Rwanda” (journal article)
  • Changing the Narrative: Antiracist Leadership in Schools (book)
  • Seeing from Da Yaad: Black Women and the Politics of Respect (dissertation to book)
  • Life in Seven Cycles (book)
  • Black Women with Advanced Cancer and the Challenge of Biomedicine: A Black Feminist Methodological Exploration of the Lived Experience of Terminal Illness (dissertation to book)
  • Borderland Solidarity: Indigenous Law, Media, and Environmental Activism in Kachinland (dissertation to book)
  • Palestine and Colonial Dialogues (dissertation to book)
  • Black Women’s Sexuality and the Black Church (PhD dissertation)
  • Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice (book)

Copy Edit:

  • “Visibility Matters: Documenting Black Women on Community Treatment Orders in Toronto” (PhD dissertation proposal)
  • “The COVID-19 Pandemic: An Immigrant-Indigenous Family Story on Reconnection, Resistance, and Resiliency.” (journal article)
  • “Indigenous Community-based Food Security: A Learning Experience with Inuit Elders, Knowledge-keepers, and Leaders.” (journal article)
  • “A Call to Protect Treaty Rights: Indigenous Community-led Energy and Water Consultation Policy Guidelines” (grant application)
  • “Second Wave” (blog post)
  • “A Message of Hope: Fragmentos, Melted Guns, and Art Education in Post-Conflict Colombia” (MA thesis)
  • Among Wolves: Our Story Among Mountain Klans and Tribes. A Memoir (book)
  • “A Critical Exploration of Nature and Mental Health Among Social Workers in Ontario” (PhD dissertation proposal)
  • Butterflies in the Trenches: The Hood, an Epic Bike Ride, and Finding Inspiration (YA memoir)
  • “Witchcraft and Healing in Post-Genocide Rwanda” (journal article)
  • “Reflections on What Homegrown Initiatives Can Bring to the Decolonization Table” (journal article)
  • “International Migration” (journal article)
  • “Approaches that Address Racial Trauma Among Black Canadians: A Theoretical Reflection” (journal article)
  • “Actions Needed to Promote Health Equity and the Mental Health of Canada’s Black Refugees” (journal article)
  • Scoping Review: Anti-Racist Practices That Might Work (report)
  • Wild Birds: Hiking Israel and Palestine (travel memoir)
  • Disrupting the Status Quo: Leveraging Collective Teacher Efficacy for the Achievement and Well-Being of BIPOC and Low Socioeconomic Students (PhD dissertation)
  • Beyond Resilience: Posttraumatic Growth in the Lives of Racialized Immigrant, Refugee and Non-Status People Living with HIV/AIDS in Toronto (PhD dissertation)
  • “Black Males and Human Rights” (journal article)