About
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Workforce development and community engagement professional with 15+ years of experience across Canada, Pakistan, and international development settings, including national vocational-training program leadership, gender-inclusive employment policy work, and multi-stakeholder coordination with government, donor, and civil-society partners. Experience includes national-level workforce and capacity-building initiatives comparable in structure to localization strategy — building talent pipelines, tracking participation outcomes, and partnering with employers to support graduate and trainee employability. Complemented by direct, hands-on involvement in institutional workforce-inclusion strategy through the University of Regina, including its Indigenous Advisory Circle and applied research on workforce and reparations policy. Comfortable operating across strategy, policy, and program delivery, and across governmental, academic, and community contexts.