Lisa Dickson Specializes in Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, and Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at the University of Northern British Columbia on the traditional unceded territory of the Lheidli T’enneh. She is a 3M National Teaching Fellow, Chair of the Council of Fellows Executive, and Founding Project Lead for the 3M NTF Mentoring Network. In her research, service and teaching, she explores the concepts of critical hope and empathy and seeks to build learning environments, both within her own classrooms and in Higher Education as a whole, that awaken students to their own agency as learners. Her current project is a book about Shakespeare and Critical Hope, a collaborative endeavour with her fellow 3M Teaching Fellows, Shannon Murray (UPEI) and Jessica Riddell (Bishops U). She and her collaborators also produce a podcast, Wyrd Words: Conversations about Literature and Learning in Higher Education (available via all the usual podcatchers), and manage a website that includes the podcast, the Wyrd Words blog and resources on Early Modern Literature and Teaching and Learning, www.thewyrdhouse.com.

Anne Marie Ryan came to Nova Scotia from Ireland to do a Masters in Geology at Acadia – and fell in love with Canada! She has education degrees from Acadia and the Mount, and when her 3 daughters were semi-grown-up, she undertook a PhD in Earth Sciences. During this time she became a teaching faculty member at Dalhousie, a position she has held since 2001. Anne Marie is a 3M National Teaching Fellow with a passion for teaching and creating new avenues for student learning. She is a strong believer in fostering curiosity and wonder, and developing a sense of community, as means for encouraging learning and developing caring and more resilient citizens. In addition to working with early-career faculty, she teaches undergraduates at all levels in earth and environmental sciences, and courses in science leadership and science education

Anita is an assistant professor and education scientist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. Her research combines qualitative and quantitative methods to address issues related to equity and wellbeing in the health professions. She also conducts research in the areas of assessment and learner engagement in classroom-based teaching sessions. Outside of health professions education, Anita is an active contributor to the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). As a 2019 ISSOTL Fellow and 2013 3M National Student Fellow, she remains actively engaged in the SoTL community. Current areas of interest include the role of students as partners in higher education and leadership in SoTL. To learn more, please visit https://anitaacai.com.

Clo Soucy (they/them) is a genderqueer white settler currently living in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). They are a recent graduate from McGill University with their M.A. in Education & Society and are currently working on their Ed.D in Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. They currently work as the coordinator of an elementary after-school program in Kahnawake. They joined 3M National Student Fellowship in 2018 and are excited to continue their work with this community of amazing scholars.

Ethan Pohl is a PhD student in Sociology at Queen’s University, where he studies media portrayals of crime and teaching & learning. His PhD research explores how Canadian media portrays the Not Criminally Responsible verdict, and how media portrayals impact criminal justice policy. Ethan earned a BA from Bishop’s University and an MA from Queen’s University, both in Sociology. Ethan joined the 3M National Student Fellowship in 2019, and works to advocate for student voices and addressing inequality in higher education.

Judy A.K. Bornais is the Executive Director, Office of Experiential Learning, University of Windsor. She also holds an Adjunct Faculty appointment at Western University. In addition to her disciplinary research in simulation in nursing education, Judy engages in SoTL with numerous teaching and learning publications. She has received numerous accolades: the CASN Award for Excellence in Nursing Education, the COUPN Teaching Excellence Award, the OCUFA Outstanding Teaching Award, the Elsevier Canada Learning Resource Award and the Inaugural Nursing Society, Faculty of the Year Award. In 2018 Judy was also named a 3M Teaching Fellow.

Dr. Debra Dawson is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Faculty of Education at Western University, and the former Director of their centre for teaching and learning. An award-winning teacher she is the former chair of the Educational Developers Caucus. She served on the board of STLHE from 2003-2009 and from 2012-2016. She was the recipient of the Society’s Christopher Knapper Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. Deb also was one of the founders of The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and served on the editorial board from 2008 to 2017. She is just completing her term as the Coordinator of the 3M NTF. Deb has presented over 100 papers nationally and internationally on topics ranging from institutional teaching culture, to implementing high impact teaching practices, enhancing student engagement in learning, and facilitating educational development. She is on the advisory committee for the Teaching Academy of the Aga Khan University.

Cynthia Korpan has been the 3M National Student Fellowship Coordinator since 2017 (currently renewed for a second four-year term until 2025). In this role, Cynthia plans the yearly award, overseeing the process, including mentoring the recipients with their project. Cynthia’s involvement with STLHE has spanned the past 10 years, beginning with serving as chair (vice-chair previously) of the Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student Advancement (TAGSA) special interest group (SIG) for two consecutive terms from 2012-2016, sitting on various committees for the Educational Development Caucus, and received the inaugural Educational Developer Leadership Award in 2016.

Owen (he/him) is a second-generation settler on Turtle Island and a third-year medical student meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. Owen holds a BHSc (Hon.) with a specialization in Child Health from McMaster University. Having witnessed the growing impacts of climate change on the health of Canadians, Owen has replaced his eco-anxiety with action by mobilizing medical students to lead green change in the Canadian healthcare system as the founder and Co-Director of Project Green Healthcare/Projet Vert la Santé, and by coordinating national medical student-led planetary health advocacy and climate action efforts as the current Co-Chair of the Canadian Federation of Medical Students Health and Environment Adaptive Response Taskforce (CFMS HEART). Owen is also a published, award-winning poet who uses writing to tell the stories of illness and the lives that they impact.

Maureen Connolly is a professor of Physical Education and Kinesiology and has been a member of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock University since 1991. She received her PhD in Education from the University of Alberta.  Maureen works with qualitative arts-based inquiry, narrative, poetic and bodily expressive modalities and how these function across scholarly, pedagogic and other creative outlets. She is a YWCA Woman of Distinction, a university teaching award winner and 3M National Teaching Fellow (2003), and a 2009 Erasmus Mundus scholar. Her teaching and research interests include curriculum, stressed embodiment, dance & movement education. Her commitment to Freirian approaches to teaching and learning is the foundation for numerous adapted physical activity programs based in service learning, which have been serving Niagara since 1994-95.   Her theoretical dispositions are semiotic, phenomenological, anti-ableist and anti-colonial, irreverent and quixotic. Maureen enjoys training, reading, writing, music, and authentic interpersonal engagement.

Pamela Rose Toulouse is a proud Anishinaabe-Kwe from Sagamok First Nation. Dr. Pam (as she is more fondly known) has 28+ years of experience across the education continuum and has researched/written over 55 resources in Indigenous education and equitable pedagogy. She is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Education at York University. Dr. Pam is the recipient of several awards that do include the: Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Teaching Excellence Award (2021); Inspiring Indigenous Women of Northeastern Ontario Award (2019); 3M National Teaching Excellence Fellow Award (2015); Laurentian University Full Time Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2014) and the Laurentian University Professional Schools Teaching Excellence Award (2013).

At Mount Allison University Christl Verduyn is Professor emerita of English and Canadian Studies. She taught previously at Trent and Wilfrid Laurier universities and has served in academic and administrative leadership roles within and beyond academe, from head of departments to journal editor to member of national and international scholarly committees, organizations, and executives. In her teaching and scholarship alike, Dr. Verduyn is committed to diversity and inclusion and to working as a settler scholar and ally in building relationships and in the TRC’s call for decolonization.