“I reminisce fondly on my experience in the Anthropology department at Carleton University where I studied under world-renowned scholars who equipped me with not just the academic skills to succeed but ways of knowing that inform who I am today. Students of the discipline know well the rigour associated with the ethnographic method, but seldom do they reflect on how these methods influence the participant observing the subject. Keen lessons which I take with me today as a policy specialist, professor and intellectual.”