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. She was awarded the 2014 AAU Anne Marie MacKinnon Educational Leadership award and is a 2021 3M National Teaching Fellow.

Ann is currently the Equity Committee liaison on the Board of Directors.

Stéphane-D. Perreault is a historian teaching at Red Deer Polytechnic and at the University of Alberta. He is also a student in the Master of Education (Curriculum Studies) at the University of British Columbia. He is a Settler of French ancestry who lives with his Nakoda husband in Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton), in the Treaty Six area. He researches the intersections of Indigenous and Settler discourses in the teaching of history and social studies.

Dr. Karen McCrindle is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream; Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning; and Director, Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She holds an MA and PhD in French linguistics from the University of Toronto and she has also studied at York and Carleton universities. Her academic background is in Pidgin and Creole Languages and Sociolinguistics and she teaches in English and French. She is a proponent of experiential education and is engaged in research projects on active learning spaces and linguistic discrimination on university campuses. She has contributed to the development of resources on microaggressions and teaching sensitive materials, and she has been an active member of UTSC’s Curriculum Review Working Circle, which is focused on inclusion, Indigeneity, and anti-racism. She is a member of the Teaching and Learning Working Group of U of T’s AI Task Force, and she spends quite a bit of time these days thinking about how GenAI is transforming the educational landscape. She co-chairs CTL’s Equity, Inclusion and Wellbeing Committee and she is also an International Affiliate with the Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities.

Dr. Melissa Li Sheung Ying is the Director of the Centre for Instructional Support with the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Applied Science. With her combined experience in post-secondary teaching, research, and educational development, one of Melissa’s priorities is to inspire teaching and learning excellence and pedagogical best practices across all the schools and programs in Applied Science, while providing leadership for the Centre and its faculty support services. Melissa’s research interests include active learning and teaching spaces, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), curriculum development, inclusive teaching practices, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), but she warmly welcomes conversations about all things related to teaching and learning in higher education. She received her PhD from Queen’s University and has disciplinary expertise in English and Comparative Literatures.

Dr. Melissa Hills is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at MacEwan University. She has a disciplinary background in molecular biology and is also involved in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning with an interest in inclusive learning in higher education. A white cishet settler, she recognizes the importance of contributing to equity and inclusion work so it does not rest solely on the shoulders of those disproportionately affected by systemic barriers in academia.

Dr. Ania Harlick is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream at the University of Toronto. Originally from Poland, she holds a Master’s degree from Adam Mickiewicz University as well as a Master’s degree and a doctorate from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. She considers herself an accidental physicist with a passion for education. As her primary responsibilities are teaching university courses, most of her research focuses on implementing modern pedagogy into the design of course and laboratory components. As far as she is concerned, she has her dream job.

Rodrigo Narro Pérez is a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Science and the Office of the Vice-Provost (Faculty) at McMaster University. He recently finished his PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences where he researched glacial moraines in Perú and Iceland to better understand the impact of glacial lake outburst floods due to climate change. He has taught courses in the School of Earth, Environment and Society, School of Interdisciplinary Sciences, Office of Community Engagement and Intersession Learning. He is one of the current co-conveners for the Race, Racialization and Racism Working Group (R3) of McMaster’s President Advisory Committee for Building an Advisory Committee (PACBIC). In the community he is recently an inaugural Board of Director for Hamilton’s Anti-Racism Resource Centre (HARRC). He is an interdisciplinary scholar that is now focusing on the connections between environmental and climate change education, Latin American/Latinx studies, and anti-racism, equity and science education. 

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.