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Dr. Anna Metaxas

Professor, Department of Oceanography | Dalhousie University

Oceans, Marine ecology, Marine protected areas, Deep sea, Deep water, Coastal ecosystems, Deep-water corals, Conservation, Near coast, Offshore

Dr. Fiona MacDonald

Assistant Professor | University of Northern British Columbia

Alt-Right, Masculinity, Medical errors, Medical mistreatment, Healthcare, Feminism, Feminist social movements, Gender, Neoliberalism, Allyship, Toxic Masculinity, Rape Culture

Tracy Schmitt

Corporate Consultant | UnstoppableTracy Inc.

business, organizational development, leadership development, facilitation, job mentoring, redevelopment, women in leadership, women in business leadership, diversity and inclusion, accessibility, psychological and intellectual impairment and police, accessible transportation

Dr. Mandy Hansen

Principal | Insight Specialty Consulting

real estate, housing economics, social housing, land use

Jennifer Fane

Faculty | Capilano University

Early years; early childhood education; early childhood health; early childhood wellbeing, emoji methodology of communication