“How can we make sure our government services are inclusive, especially as we move into digital transformation and make more services available through digital means (which has impacts to improve inclusivity and also cause exclusion)?” Thinking about my project topic and an additional question springs to mind. When you move towards digital only platforms to […]

Ok I am behind on my blogging but didn’t feel I could really write anything as I had scrapped my initial ideas for my project and wanted to start something new. After a great meeting with JB to discuss some ideas I feel I am back on track. That’s why this feels like a bloggity […]

how I can just pick up and rent a hotel room for a night or two because my house doesn’t have water or sewer how I can afford to heat my home and turn up the thermostat without worrying about how I will pay my gas bill how I can take a sick day off […]

Wow is it already week 7? I have definitely been thinking more about my project these past two weeks as I participated in two intensives – Indigenous Futures and Neuropolitics of Decision Making. Writing my Exclusion and Inequality essay also provided me with some food for thought.  As you may recall one of the project […]

My mother started referring to me as middle-aged a few years ago. This was technically correct since the life expectancy for females is holding at around mid 80s in my country but it still hurt a little bit. I have always considered myself to be young at heart and being reminded of my chronological age […]

In a previous blog I mentioned sharing some reflections on an article from the “Built Infrastructure” list about toilets in Tema, Ghana. A dog walk on day two of our Exclusion and Inequality intensive had me thinking of what happened to the community around public toilets in this article: Public things, excremental politics, and the […]

Bonus content for week 3 as I had started this blog before writing my formal one. The random picture above is one I took a few winters ago near the city I live in. You can see the Rocky Mountains off in the distance on the horizon. Winter is my favorite season and for some […]

Hello again, I hope everyone has mostly recovered from a busy week. I have been trying to wrap my head around the idea for a project and think about how it ties into the intensive work this week.  Reflecting on the start of the week, it was just as it was described – intense.  I […]

When I read about inequality, I think about real life situations I have encountered in the world whether it’s been me personally, my family, my circle of friends, colleagues, civic figures, politicians and maybe even celebrities.  As I undertook the self-assessment of my skills and goals for the KIPP discussions, while also reflecting on everything […]

Hello folks, I am normally a pretty private person with very limited personal social media so blogging is something very new to me. For many years I have thought about going back to school to do a Master’s degree. It was not possible for me to think about doing this until now, for a variety of […]