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Melanie Neilson
Educator, Greater Victoria School District No. 61
Melanie Neilson, MEd, currently works as an Indigenous Education Support Teacher within Greater Victoria School District No. 61. As a practicing educator and scholar, her work primarily examines the use of children’s literature and decolonizing pedagogies to support Truth and Reconciliation education within elementary and middle school classrooms.