Notes on Migration, Transition, and Work
My writing comes from the long middle of migration and work. I design tools and spaces for people stuck in the middle of systems that assume they’ve already arrived—field guides, diagrams, essays, and notes from Stage 2.
Writing Streams
Kingston NetworkBuddy
LinkedIn Article,‘Visas Have Dates. Transitions Don’t.’ 24 February 2026
LinkedIn Article, ‘Why “Show Up Scared” Advice Never Sat Right With Me,’ 10 January 2026.
‘Cultural visibility in civic spaces matters’, 23November 2025.
‘What Peer Concordance Looks Like in Real Life’, 12 October 2025.
‘Social Silences as a Newcomer in Canada’, 25 September 2025.
‘KNB: Not a Networking Group’, 11 September 2025.
LinkedIn Article, ‘Networking Buddy, Anyone?, 10 April 2023.
LinkedIn Article, ‘Zombie Apocalypse and Networking: A Survival Guide’, 24 November 2023.
LinkedIn Article, ‘Beyond the Screen: The Real-Life Impact of a LinkedIn Connection’, 9 November 2023.
LinkedIn Article, ‘3 Mistakes in Networking that I Learned and Want to Confess’, 15 December 2023.
‘Ever feel like networking leaves you asking, "What now?",’ 21 September 2024.
Exhausted Bodies
LinkedIn Article, ‘When "Inactive" Really Means Exhausted: What Physical Activity Reports Miss About Manual Work’, 19 Jan 2026.
‘Why Only 46% of Canadians Meet the PA Guidelines’, 21 November 2025.
‘The Future of Work Isn’t Automation — It’s More Manual Labour for the Exhausted’, 8 November 2025.
‘Pain-proof isn’t the goal, Pain control is’, 1 November 2025.
LinkedIn Article , ‘Are You Precariat? 6 Signs the System Wasn't Built to Protect Your Body’, 20 October 2025.
LinkedIn Article , ‘3 signs the system around you wasn’t built for manual labourers… and why it’s costing you your body and mind.’, 20 October 2025.
‘As I’m building my Pain-Control Kit, there are 101 reasons why I couldn’t’, July 2025.
‘Newcomer vs. Productivity Culture,’ March 2024.
‘What would you build if systems got out of the way?’, 15 November 2024.
(LinkedIn post about SEN-Kingston – a co‑founded experiment in slow, self‑defined growth that never made it to launch.)