Dr. Pat Maher is a Full Professor in the School of Physical and Health Education at Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario. He joined the Society in 2014 after being named a 3M National Teaching Fellow and has been active ever since. Pat was elected to the executive of the Council of Fellows in 2016 and served as Chair in 2020 and 2021. He was an Associate Editor for the Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning from 2016-2021 and has since transitioned to the broader Editorial Board.

Pat is also a Fellow (2020) and current Vice-President (Canada) for the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. He has taught and conducted research projects from Iceland to Antarctica, New Zealand to Norway and many places in between. To learn more, follow him on Twitter/X @DrPatMaher or on Instagram at dr_patmaher.

Matthew Dunleavy (he/him) is a Senior Educational Developer at the Centre for Teaching Excellence and Innovation at Yorkville University and Toronto Film School. Before entering that role, he was an Educational Developer at the Teaching Commons at York University. Previously, he served as the Program Director of the Online Learning and Technology Consultants (OLTC) Program at the Maple League of Universities (Acadia, Bishop’s, Mount Allison, & St. Francis Xavier). In 2022, he was awarded the D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education for this work.

Dr. Cynthia Korpan is an Adjunct Professor in the department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Prior to 2023, Cynthia held the position of Director of Teaching Excellence, with over 18 years experience as an educational developer. Her scholarly interests include research about the learning trajectory of early career academics as they first begin teaching in the academic workplace and the scholarship of teaching and learning.  Cynthia is a longstanding member of STLHE, having joined in 2008. Since then, she has held many different positions, such as chair (and prior to chair, vice-chair) of the Teaching Assistant Graduate Student Advancement (TAGSA), Coordinator for the 3M National Student Fellowship (3M NSF), which includes sitting on the Council of Fellows, Secretary for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), Associate editor for the Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CJSoTL) (2024-2027), and member of various committees for the Educational Developers Caucus (EDC).

Cynthia continues her educational developer work and teaching, through the Graduate Student, Professional Student, and Postdoctoral Scholar Development Special Interest Group (GPPD SIG) communications and engagement committee, part of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network; as a faculty member for the Institute for New Educational Developers (INED) at Temple University; as a facilitator for the POD Getting Started Online Conference; and as an active volunteer with Academics Without Borders, working with universities in Pakistan, Ghana, and Uganda.

Dr. Natasha Ramroop Singh is an Associate Teaching Professor with the Biological Sciences Department at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in Kamloops, BC. She has been a science educator within the areas of General Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry and Genetics for over seventeen years.

Within the last five years or so, Natasha has been deeply involved in the creation, adaption and adoption of Open Educational Resources for her courses, as well as various Open Learning courses at TRU. She is an avid supporter of open pedagogies and is passionate about involving students as partners in the co-creation of learning resources.

Natasha is interested in focusing on collaborative efforts with fellow educators, administrators, and stakeholders, towards dismantling barriers to inclusive and equitable resources for Faculty as they seek to foster innovative teaching practices, promote evidence-based pedagogies, and advocate for policies that prioritize student success.

Dr. Juan Carlos López is a soil microbial ecologist who has worked and trained in Europe, and North and South America. Over the years, working in collaboration with students and colleagues, Juan Carlos has addressed aspects of education that deal with pedagogy, inclusion and student success.

In 2023, Juan Carlos became the inaugural Director of the Virtual Maple League Teaching and Learning Centre. In this leadership role, Juan Carlos develops new programming and continues with existing initiatives to showcase pedagogical practices and strategies, always infused with social justice practices in higher education.

Juan Carlos has worked in advancing EDIAR principles in the way our academic systems function. Joining working groups with incremental responsibilities through the Acadia University Faculty Association, Juan Carlos was appointed as co-chair of the joint Employment Equity Committee and became, in 2024, the inaugural Associate Dean of Equity Diversity and Inclusion for the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science at Acadia University.

Dr. Anita Acai is the inaugural Director, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She also holds a part-time faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. Dr. Acai first became a member of the Society in 2013, when she was named a 3M National Student Fellow (3MNSF). Throughout her time as a student and now as a faculty member, she has remained engaged in the Society in various capacities, most recently as the coordinator of the 3MNSF Program. To learn more about Dr. Acai, please visit https://anitaacai.com/ or find her on X (formerly Twitter) at @anita_acai or Bluesky at @anitaaphd.bsky.social.

Dr. Ann Braithwaite is a professor and coordinator of Diversity and Social Justice Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island, where she has taught since 1998. She teaches a wide variety of courses at every level, on topics such as Identities and Place; Monsters, Freaks, Zombies, and Cyborgs; Disability Studies; Race and Whiteness; and Theorizing Social Justice.

The co-author or co-editor of four books (with a fifth under contract), Dr. Braithwaite’s scholarly work examines how disciplines—such as Women’s and Gender Studies—are constructed through languages and narratives that reflect a set of citational practices and embedded ways of knowing, asking what versions of a discipline these assumptions make possible, what possibilities they shut down, and how attending to those questions matters.

Dr. Braithwaite is the former chair of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE / SAPES) Equity Committee, in addition to serving on several EDI committees at UPEI and on the UPEIFA; both at UPEI and beyond, her passion is to engage others in exploring how to bring questions of inclusion and justice to the classroom and curricular programming. She is the recipient of numerous teaching, educational leadership, and service awards at UPEI was awarded the 2014 AAU Anne Marie MacKinnon Educational Leadership award and is a 2021 3M National Teaching Fellow.

Toni Roberts is the Director of the Purdy Crawford Teaching Centre and a member of the Sociology Department at Mount Allison University. As Director, Toni works on various projects including delivering workshops on inquiry-based learning, EDI, decolonization, UDL, etc. Toni has led classroom redesign projects, introduced two new teaching awards on campus and has been central to the Maple League Teaching and Learning Committee, acting as co-chair since its inception.

Through the Maple League TLC, Toni has helped usher in the Virtual-TLC for the four universities (Bishops, Mount Allison, Acadia, St.F.X.) and established a micro-certificate program in University Teaching and Learning for faculty across the universities.

Toni has led innovative curricular programs to address accessibility issues, addressing structural and institutional inequalities, such as THRIVE (Teaching in Higher Education with Radical Inclusion, Values and Engagement). THRIVE’s Wicked Problems course sees students develop skills they need for completing their degree while focusing on student-driven issues such as housing/homelessness, environmental protection, and community development. It has received significant funding ($420K) and is now being integrated into more flexible delivery modes to increase access.

Toni has a great interest in decolonization, EDI, justice and UDL and applies this lens to all their work. Toni researches technology, gender, sexuality and SoTL, all using this lens.

Toni publishes on student engagement across delivery platforms and more recently has been exploring the intersection of academic integrity and Indigenous knowledge, looking toward a decolonizing approach. Toni has edited an anthology of educational technology, Interactive Technology and Smart Education, that included articles on learning object interoperability, open copyright and liberatory teaching methods.

Toni chaired the international working group of IMS on Learning Object Metadata that became a national, then international specification and then an IEEE global standard. Toni also co-chaired the IMS working group on Accessibility for All. This specification has also become a global de facto standard in making digital content accessible to everyone.

Toni is the winner of various teaching awards including the 3M National Teaching Fellowship (2023) and the D2L National Teaching Innovation Award (2022).

Dr. Jovan Groen serves as the Director of Academic Quality and Enhancement at Western University with adjunct appointments at Western’s and the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education. Stemming from his work in educational development and quality assurance, Jovan’s provincially and nationally funded scholarship is centered on the effectiveness of pedagogical practices and program development in postsecondary settings. He has, and continues to serve, on varied committees for SoTL and postsecondary teaching recognition – for instance, as editorial board member of the Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and recently as Co-Coordinator of the STLHE’s D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning (2022-2025) and Coordinator of the STLHE’s Alan Blizzard Award (2019-2021).

Dr. Michael Wong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences and Instructor for the Honours Health Sciences Program at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada). Originally trained as a neuroscientist, Dr. Wong’s scholarship has evolved to focusing on methods to engage students through technology and gamification, as well as ways to de-centre traditional hierarchies in education. He has taught at several institutions of higher education in Canada and the United States and was awarded the Nancy Chick Article of the Year Award by the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) in 2023.