Jennifer Fraser, PhD, is an award-winning educator and author of books exploring education. Her latest book, The Bullied Brain: Heal your scars and restore your health (Prometheus Books / Rowman & Littlefield), hit the shelves and airwaves on April 1, 2022.
Sylvia Moore, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the School of Arctic and Subarctic Studies, Labrador Campus of Memorial University.
Dr, Joelle Rodway, PhD, OCT, is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, Memorial University.
Barbara Giroux, OCSB, is a Grade 1 teacher at Holy Family School in Ottawa. She and her students, and their bear Makoonse, are grateful to learn with and from Algonquin peoples.
Lisa Howell, PhD, lives on the unsurrendered territories of the Algonquin Nation, where she teaches and learns with teacher candidates at the University of Ottawa.
Ardavan Eizadirad, PhD, (@DrEizadirad) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is the author of Decolonizing Educational Assessment: Ontario Elementary Students and the EQAO (2019), and co-editor of Counternarratives of Pain and Suffering as Critical Pedagogy: Disrupting Oppression in Educational Contexts (2022 with Drs. Andrew Campbell and Steve Sider).
José Ndzeno is a teacher and student with a passion for educational research. Teaching is a career change for him, his first field being engineering.
Evan Saperstein is a postdoctoral fellow in the citizenship education and history teaching research lab at the Université de Montréal. He also has served as an adjunct professor and a high school Social Studies teacher.
Alexandre Cavalcante, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at OISE, University of Toronto, who has worked in the field of mathematics and science teacher education with many international partners for over a decade. His research is centred around how mathematics education can respond to the demands of a society in transition; research interests include financial literacy and numeracy, ethnomathematics, critical mathematics education, informal numeracy practices, entrepreneurship, and citizenship. twitter.com/mathematizen
Dwayne Donald, PhD, is a descendent of the amiskwaciwiyiniwak (Beaver Hills people) and works as a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. He is Canada Research Chair in Reimagining Teacher Education with Indigenous Wisdom Traditions, and his work focuses on ways in which Indigenous wisdom traditions can expand and enhance understandings of curriculum and pedagogy.
Kelsey Lewis is a PhD student in the Educational Leadership and Policy program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She also serves as a site visitor, workshop leader, and consultant for the International Baccalaureate and has worked both internationally and in Ontario as a teacher, curriculum director, and elementary principal.
Shyen Owen (OCT, B.Ed.) is a teacher in the Waterloo Region District School Board.
Tamara Bolotenko (OCT, MT) is Vice-Principal of Citizenship for Grade 6 and 7 at TFS –Canada’s International School. She has taught, learned and lived in Ukraine, the U.A.E., New Zealand, and Kazakhstan.
Katharine Lake Berz (MA) is an independent consultant and writer on Vancouver Island and in Toronto. Her work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, The Canadian Press, and on CBC Radio. https://www.lakeberz.com
Crystena Parker-Shandal (OCT, PhD) is an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo. She is the co-editor of Finding Refuge in Canada: Narratives of dislocation and co-founder of the Refugee Storybank of Canada. www.drparkershandal.com
Christine Corso is a former public school teacher and current PhD candidate at OISE/University of Toronto. She is a Canada Graduate Scholar studying the impacts of COVID-19 on student motivation and engagement.
Claire Crooks is the Director of the Centre for School Mental Health and Professor in Education at Western University. She is a registered psychologist and researches effective, feasible approaches to preventing violence and promoting mental well-being among youth.
Kevin Lamoureux is a faculty member at the University of Winnipeg, an award-winning scholar, and a well-known public speaker. He has served as Associate Vice President for the University of Winnipeg, Education Lead for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, and Scholar in Residence for several school divisions, and has consulted for governments and organizations across Canada. Lamoureux is committed to reconciliation and contributing to an even better Canada for all children to grow up in.
Kristina R. Llewellyn, PhD, OCT is Full Professor of Social Development Studies at Renison University College, University of Waterloo. An award-winning author, Llewellyn researches and teaches in the field of equity and education, with a focus on restorative justice, feminist theory, and history education.