My name is Taran Alexander Jordan. I am a Black male. I am completing the first year of my education degree with Mount Saint Vincent University. My decision to become an educator is a simple one. I know first-hand the experience of growing up in an educational system with scant visible minorities and nobody that looked like me.
My name is Harriett Mathews, and I am a Cree student from Attawapiskat First Nation. I was raised away from my reserve because for almost twenty years, there was no school in my community. Knowing that the children who lived on the reserve had no access to a proper education, made me value my education more,
Simon Lisaingo
Vancouver, British Columbia
Access to Services: The Evolving Role of the School Psychologist
Simon is a PhD student in the School Psychology program at the University of British Columbia. After teaching secondary school in rural Yukon, he decided to pursue further education to better understand and support students. He is interested in studying in how students overcome challenges they face at school and at home. He is also interested in examining the evolving role of school psychologists in Canada.
Vanessa Piccinin
Toronto, Ontario
Beyond Gay-Straight Alliances – LGBTQQIP2SAA Students in Canadian Schools
2015 CAPSLE Fellow and PhD candidate, Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Toronto, Ms. Piccinin conducted additional research at Harvard’s Law Library as a guest of the Graduate School of Education and has co-taught graduate Education Law courses with Justice Marvin A.
Eric Shalom
Calgary, Alberta
Toward Legal and Funding Certainty for Aboriginal Education: From Past to Present.
Eric earned a B.A. in history from the Concordia University and an M.A. at the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. After working for the Embassy of Afghanistan during Canada’s involvement in that country,
Sophie Audette-Chapdelaine
Ogden, Quebec
Encadrement juridique de l’éducation à la maison au Canada
Sophie is a Doctoral student at the Faculty of Law, Université de Sherbrooke. Her research interests include education law, empirical legal research and interdisciplinary approaches to law.
Allison Fisher
Toronto, Ontario
Unwelcome, Unwanted and Persistent: Institutional Responses to Gendered Violence and Bullying in Schools
Alison received her M.A. in Sociology from York University in 2004. She specialized in the areas of feminist and critical theory. After working for a health care union, Alison returned to school to receive her Bachelor of Education in 2005.
Andrea Chisholm
Fonthill, Ontario
Equality and Education: Constitutional and International Law Possibilities for Canada and First Nations
Andrea holds a B.A. in history from the University of Western Ontario, a bachelor of laws from Osgoode Hall Law School, and a masters degree in education from Brock University.
Nora Findlay
Regina, Saskatchewan
At Law’s End: An Analysis of School Administrators’ Exercise of Discretion in Schools
Nora M. Findlay is currently a doctoral student at the University of Western Ontario. Of her almost twenty years as an educator, she has served for the past nine as a school-based administrator at both the elementary and secondary levels.
Seo Yun Yang
Montreal, Quebec
University v. Student: A Contractual Understanding of Higher Education in Canada
Seo Yun Yang is currently a B.C.L./LL.B student at McGill Faculty of Law, where she will serve as Editor in Chief of the McGill Law Journal in its upcoming volume. With an interest in education policy,
David Mangan
London, UK
Professionalism, Unionism and the Identity of Teachers
David is a member of the Ontario Bar and currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics. As an LSE Fellow, he teaches at the LSE in the undergraduate LL.B.
