I have conducted community collaborative and intensive fieldwork in North America and East Africa for multiple research projects looking at the rights of vulnerable and targeted communities in the face of state and corporate violence (namely land rights, cultural erosion, and police/militaristic violence) and climate change over the past seven years. I have practical and extensive experience working on the ground with Indigenous Batwa civil society organizations in Rwanda and Uganda and Indigenous Anuak organizations in Kenya and Ethiopia. To date, I have worked on collaborative research projects with local community rights activists, journalists, and NGO workers in Somaliland, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. I have attended multiple international fora including the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and COP21 in Paris to advocate for and raise awareness of the issues affecting Indigenous communities in East Africa in particular. I have worked pro bono, collaborated, or consulted with multiple human rights organizations, including the UN Office of the Special Advisers on the Prevention of Genocide and Responsibility to Protect, the Public Accountability Initiative, the International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs, Vanishing Earth, the Indigenous Environmental Network, the Maine Wabanaki State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission, AIMPO-Rwanda, Anywaa Survival Organisation, Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, and the Scottish Government. I hold a first class undergraduate degree in International Relations from the University of St Andrews and received the Principal's Medal at the end of my time there. I also hold an MSc in African Studies from the University of Oxford and received the African Studies Prize for the most innovative research conducted for my dissertation that examined the politics of Indigeneity associated with Batwa communities in Rwanda. The University of St Andrews provided me with a PhD-grade research fellowship for three years to support my research and development of the Third Generation Project, a think tank I co-founded in 2016 with Prof. Ali Watson to qualify the human rights implications of climate change. I'm currently undertaking my PhD at the University of St Andrews, looking at climate change-induced government planned community relocations in the United States.