Communications & Events Coordinator
Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
2023 - Present

Web Designer, PRECTISCE Justice
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
2024 - Present

Communications & Website Assistant
International Partnership for Queer Youth Resilience
2023 - Present

Graduate Assistant, Queer Youth Arts Programming Project
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
2023 - Present

Digital Archival Assistant, Treasury for Ethiopian Images
University of Toronto Scarborough 
2020 - Present

Program Manager, Studio for Media Activism
Toronto Metropolitan University
2022 - 2023

Archival Assistant
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
2021 - 2023

Lead Research Assistant, Black Student Experience Project 
Faculty of Information
2022

Research Assistant, Anti-Racist Bibliography
University of Toronto, Department of Art History 
2021

Archival Assistant, Sexual Representations Collection
University of Toronto
2021

Creative Director
The Varsity
2018 - 2019

Project Manager, Black Digital Humanities Lab
Jackson State University
2022 - Present

Chair
The Diversity Working Group
2022 - 2023

Vice-President, Academic Affairs
Master of Information Student Council 
2021 - 2023

Co-Coordinator 
iSchool Peer Mentoring Program
2022 - 2023 

Graphic Designer
Hardwire: Undergraduate Journal for Sexual Diversity Studies
2019-2021

Project Intern
The Arquives
2019 - 2020

Master of Arts, Adult Education and Community Development
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
2023 - 2025

Graduate Level Coursework in UX Design & Archival Studies
Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
2021 - 2022

Honours Bachelor of Arts, Art History & Queer/Trans Studies
University of Toronto, Victoria College
2016 - 2019

Research Assistant
FLOURISH Collective, University of Toronto Scarborough

Research Assistant
Mishritata Lab, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Student Trainee, International Student Training Network
International Partnership for Queer Youth Resilience

Alumni, Socio-Technical Resistance and Ethical Technologies (STREET) Lab
Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto

Petterson, A., Cheng, K., Chandra, P. (2023). "Playing with Power Tools: Design Toolkits and the Framing of Equity" in Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference 

Peer Reviewing: Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association 

Intro to Interviews: Design, Ethics, and Facilitation [Ongoing], University of Toronto & ScarboroughArts  

Intro to UX & Digital Humanities Talks [Ongoing], Jackson State University Department of Art and Theatre

"Re-imagining a Community: Our Third Place" Zine Workshop [Forthcoming, December 14, 2023], Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

"Prototyping for Black Queer Lives" [August 23, 2023], ISTN Canada-UK Regional Network Student Presentation Day

"The Activist-Academic: Resistance in/of the University"
[June 8, 2023], INQYR Rainbow Rendezvous: Queer Research Mixer

"Afro-Asian Solidarities: Designing Tools for Solidarity" [May 12, 2023], OISE Asian Heritage Month Symposium 2023

"Resistant Archives/Resisting the Archive: Zine Making as Anarchive" [March 23, 2023], Toronto Metropolitan University, RTA893: Social Justice Media

Design: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe XD, Adobe Premiere, Figma, Balsamiq, Sketch, Blender
Web: Wordpress, SquareSpace, Oxygen Builder, Webflow, HTML, Tailwind CSS
Research: Miro, Mural, FigJam, Zotero, Visual Studio Code, NVivo