Ketty is a practitioner and scholar of justice, peacebuilding, public policy and gender. Prior to joining the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA), she 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 championed the founding of the Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN), a survivor -led community organization advocating for reparations and justice in Uganda, initiated and led the Justice and Reconciliation Project’s gender justice program. Ketty contributed to the peace process between the Ugandan government and the LRA between 2006-2008 through conducting dialogues and policy research with conflict-affected communities in internally displaced persons camps, regional, national and international workshops with think tanks, governments, the UN, delegates to the peace talks mediated by the Government of South Sudan among others. This ensured the voices of conflict-affected communities reached the negotiation table. She has published articles, book chapters, policy reports and blogs, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses at UBC SPPGA and UofT.

Ketty is a co-investigator in a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant on Transformative Memory, a collaborator in the Research Network on Women, Peace and Security and the SSHRC Partnership Grant on Conjugal Slavery in War Partnership and a consultant at Kettysconsults. She also serves on boards of non-profit organizations worldwide and mentors youth leaders and activists. 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.