Ketty is a practitioner and scholar of justice, peacebuilding, public policy and gender. She previously worked as a Policy and Research Analyst/Lecturer with the Center for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto (UofT), having completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2024. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from UBC and MA in Peace Studies from Notre Dame University in the United States.

With a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship award, Ketty conducted her doctoral research on women’s senses of justice after wartime sexual violence in Uganda and has a contract with University of Toronto Press to turn this into a book. She has two decades’ experience in strategic planning, management, and implementation of projects of all sizes. She has a wealth of community engagement expertise through NGOs especially action research, documentation, policy advocacy, and relationship building with conflict-affected persons. She has engaged with conflict survivors, activists, government leaders, politicians, NGOs, and policy makers in Canada, and internationally in Uganda, the Philippines, Cambodia, Colombia, United States and more recently, the Eastern Caribbean region among others. She has published articles, reports and blogs, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses at UBC SPPGA and UofT.

Ketty is an active member of an international collaborative network on transformative memory, and serves on boards of non-profit organizations worldwide. In her free time, she enjoys biking, taking walks along forest trails or taking in the beauty of nature including the ocean, mountains and others, or trying out new recipes.