Ann Braithwaite, Ph.D., is a Professor in and Coordinator of Diversity and Social Justice Studies at UPEI; the co-author and co-editor of four books (the fourth is forthcoming in 2022, and a fifth is under contract); the recipient of numerous teaching, educational leadership, and service awards at UPEI; the AAU Anne Marie MacKinnon Educational Leadership award winner in 2014; and a 2021 STLHE/SAPES 3M National Teaching Fellow.

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.

For over 16 years, I have been involved nationally and internationally in learning and teaching in higher education. At the University of Victoria, I am the Director of Teaching Excellence, responsible for taking the lead on institutional initiatives to enhance instruction to support students’ learning. Nationally, through the Society of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), I was chair of a special interest group (TAGSA) for six years; currently, I am in my second term as Coordinator for the 3M National Student Fellowship; and in the past, I served on multiple committees within the Educational Developers Caucus (EDC), such as the accreditation committee. In 2016, I was awarded the Educational Developer Leadership Award, and in 2018, organized the national EDC conference at the University of Victoria.

My area of research concentrates on academics’ inaugural years of teaching in higher education. My PhD research investigated graduate students’ learning process as they began to teach in the academic workplace. Currently, I am undertaking a multi-year study looking at the impact of a faculty program about learning-centred teaching.  In my role as Director of Teaching Excellence, I teach SoTL to graduate students in a credited two-year program (Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Graduate Certificate), to faculty in our Faculty Institute of Teaching (three-term program), and oversee our institutional SoTL grants, which includes ongoing consultations with faculty across all disciplines to help them develop their research, coordinating a community of practice for SoTL researchers, and planning collaborative events (such as our campus wide Let’s Talk about Teaching event). Further, I work with departments to support the curriculum development process. Through these mechanisms, I promote the theory and practice of SoTL to improve student learning. I am committed and passionate about this topic, hence my deep interest in being appointed to the SoTL Canada executive.

Charlene is Coordinator of the Teaching and Learning Centre at the University of Prince Edward Island. Supporting faculty with their SoTL projects is a particularly fulfilling aspect of her current role with the centre. She became interested in SoTL as a sessional instructor and this developed into a long-term research interest, along with projects related to digital learning, faculty development, community-based learning, and international development work in rural Kenya.  Charlene is also a program director with Shad Canada, a STEAM and entrepreneurship summer program for high school students.  Outside of work, Charlene is an avid reader with a soft spot for mystery novels and an active volunteer supporting youth in her community, dedicating lots of time on the pool deck as an official for swim meets. Her latest volunteer activity was joining the board of a local organization that works with farming communities in Kenya, where most of the farmers are women.