Members
Ann Braithwaite
University of Prince Edward Island
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[...]
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.
Ann is currently the Equity Committee liaison on the Board of Directors.
Stéphane-D. Perreault
Red Deer Polytechnic
Stéphane-D. Perreault (Dr. if you insist) is a historian teaching at Red Deer Polytechnic. He is a Settler of French ancestry who lives with his Nakota husband and four cats in an area known in Settler terms as Edmonton, in the Treaty Six area, an agreement for peaceful land sharing that was sealed on August 23 and 28, 1876 between the Nehiyaw, the Anishinaabe, the Chipewan, and the Dakota and the Crown on behalf of the Settlers. He researches the intersections of Indigenous and Settler discourses in the teaching of history.
Stéphane-D. Perreault (Dr. if you insist) is a historian teaching at Red Deer Polytechnic. He is a Settler of French ancestry who lives with his Nakota husband and four cats in an area known in Settler terms as Edmonton, in the Treaty Six area, an agreement for peaceful land sharing that was sealed on August 23 and 28, 1876 between the Nehiyaw, the Anishinaabe, the Chipewan, and the Dakota and the Crown on behalf of the Settlers. He researches the intersections of Indigenous and Settler discourses in the teaching of history.
Dr. Karen McCrindle
University of Toronto
Dr. Karen McCrindle is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). She currently serves as Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning and Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning. Her academic expertise lies in Pidgin and Creole Languages and Sociolinguistics and she teaches in English and French. She has recently contributed to the development of a teaching resource on microaggressions and she is an active member of UTSC’s Curriculum Review Working Circle, which is focused on inclusion, Indigeneity, and anti-racism.
Dr. Karen McCrindle is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). She currently serves as Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning and Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning. Her academic expertise lies in Pidgin and Creole Languages and Sociolinguistics and she teaches in English and French. She has recently contributed to the development of a teaching resource on microaggressions and she is an active member of UTSC’s Curriculum Review Working Circle, which is focused on inclusion, Indigeneity, and anti-racism.
Dr. Melissa Li Sheung Ying
MacEwan University
Dr. Melissa Li Sheung Ying is an Educational Developer in the Centre for Teaching and Learning at MacEwan University. In her role, Melissa collaborates, consults and provides support to faculty on an array of meaningful teaching and learning opportunities that include program and curriculum development, active learning, evaluation and assessment, EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion) and SoTL (the scholarship of teaching and learning). She also has a disciplinary background in English literature.
Dr. Melissa Li Sheung Ying is an Educational Developer in the Centre for Teaching and Learning at MacEwan University. In her role, Melissa collaborates, consults and provides support to faculty on an array of meaningful teaching and learning opportunities that include program and curriculum development, active learning, evaluation and assessment, EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion) and SoTL (the scholarship of teaching and learning). She also has a disciplinary background in English literature.
Dr. Melissa Hills
MacEwan University
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. 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
University of Toronto
Dr. Ania Harlick is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream at the University of Toronto, and an Adjunct Senior Instructor at the University of Calgary. Originally from Poland, she holds a master degree from Adam Mickiewicz University as well as a master 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[...]
Dr. Ania Harlick is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream at the University of Toronto, and an Adjunct Senior Instructor at the University of Calgary. Originally from Poland, she holds a master degree from Adam Mickiewicz University as well as a master 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
McMaster University
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[...]
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.
Marion Brown
Committee Chair
Dalhousie University
Marion Brown is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Associate Dean Academic in the Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University. In the Faculty of Health she is responsible for strategic leadership and support for program and curriculum development across 10 schools; implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement for academic and scholarly innovation; initiatives related to the scholarship of teaching and learning; project lead for operationalization of university policy on Holistic Evaluation of Teaching; and lead for a Community of Practice on Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Universal Design for Learning. As a social work educator Marion uses critical[...]
Marion Brown is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Associate Dean Academic in the Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University. In the Faculty of Health she is responsible for strategic leadership and support for program and curriculum development across 10 schools; implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement for academic and scholarly innovation; initiatives related to the scholarship of teaching and learning; project lead for operationalization of university policy on Holistic Evaluation of Teaching; and lead for a Community of Practice on Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Universal Design for Learning. As a social work educator Marion uses critical pedagogies, weaving analyses of power, discourse, and advocacy into politicized teaching and learning processes. She has expertise in qualitative research methods, particularly constructivist grounded theory, narrative, and participatory action methodologies, with skills in in-depth interviewing and focus group data generation.
Juan Carlos López
Acadia University
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[...]
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.