Who is Abby?
Abby Adams-Gopsill is a second year student in the Masters of Global Affairs program at the University of Toronto. She graduated from McGill University with a BA in International Development and African Studies with a specific focus on foreign interventionism and post-development discourse. While completing her undergrad, Abby served as the president for McGill Students for Oxfam-Quebec, establishing the organization’s presence on campus and raising funds for various Oxfam initiatives. In 2018, Abby was the recipient of the Brenda and Morrison Hurley Arts scholarship to spend a summer in rural Tanzania interning for globalbike, researching gender equality in the region and the efficiency of the NGO aid model. Following her graduation, Abby worked as the youth coordinator for a local anti-child-sex trafficking organization, working closely with partners such as the Ontario government and Meta to increase preventative education on the issue. Her research interests include foreign interventionism in Africa and the Middle East, the history and future of development models, and civil conflict through a socio-political lens.