Miriam received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Toronto in 2021 and her research focused on areas of: international development, partnerships and network building, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and gender. Miriam’s doctoral thesis explored the everyday dynamics of successful (and failed) partnerships between civil society, government, and private sector organizations as they collaborated to implement the SDGs in Ghana. Miriam’s research was supported by the Vanier Canadian Graduate Scholarship. Prior to graduate school, Miriam managed an agricultural development project in Ghana with Engineers Without Borders Canada, and also served on their Board of Directors.