About Me
Interdisciplinary Researcher & Artist
(San Francisco, USA)
(San Francisco, USA)
As an interdisciplinary researcher, I examine the intricacies of power and extractivism. My primary interests are mining, epistemology, violence, law and society, and the intersection of power and knowledge production as relevant to Cebu in the Philippines.
I am currently a Visiting Research Fellow (2023-2024) in the Geography Department at the University of the Philippines-Diliman.
* M.A. Sociology, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (Us)
* B.A. Communication, Hanze University of Applied Sciences (Nl)
With a Dutch mother and a Filipino father, I have witnessed the politics behind the destruction of Bantayan Island in Cebu, Philippines - my paternal home. This grounds my work spanning community-based projects on Bantayan island in the Philippines to interviews with small-scale miners in the Kingdom of Tonga, artists and farmers in Australia, and my on-going work focusing on extractivism.
I have contributed articles and radio features to SBS Radio, Art Monthly Australasia, Kantor Berita Radio, and NTU Centre for Contemporary Art’s ‘Climates. Habitats. Environments.’ and exhibited at Firstdraft and 55 Sydenham Rd in Australia. I was a visiting scholar/artist at ‘Atenisi Institute (Nuku’alofa, Kingdom of Tonga, 2018;2019), Tropical Futures Institute (Cebu, Philippines, 2019), and the East-West Center (Honolulu, Hawai’i, 2020).
In the spring of 2023, I completed my M.A. in Sociology at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I was the recipient of the Center for Philippine Studies’ Corky Trinidad Endowment Scholarship at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in support of my research on an epistemology of extraction.
