EDI Advisor
Principal Consultant
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Chanelle Tye is an equity and inclusion facilitator, educator, curriculum designer, and coach who specializes in the areas of anti-racism and LGBTQ2SIA+ inclusion. Her use of humour and interactive participant engagement ensure safe learning environments for novices and experts in social justice issues. She brings a deep knowledge of the dynamics of power and privilege within educational, corporate, and institutional contexts.

Chanelle has a Master of Education in Equity Studies from Simon Fraser University with a focus on improving outcomes for organizational equity, diversity, and inclusion training. With ten years of experience as an out queer public school teacher, she was recently the Provincial Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (SOGI) Education Lead with British Columbia’s Ministry of Education.

Currently, she partners with a gaggle of equity and inclusion specialists to educate about bringing justice to an unjust world.

Program Design
Operations
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Victoria is an equity and inclusion collaborator, programs and operations specialist and an anti-racism advocate. She is a Vietnamese-Chinese-Canadian settler and a lifelong learner. She thrives working with diverse groups to unpack their intersectional identities and to continue the fight against systemic racism and other oppressions.

Victoria has over ten years of experience facilitating challenging conversations about equity and developing inclusive education programs.

Victoria completed her Masters in Equity Studies Education at Simon Fraser University, with her thesis on race relations in international service learning programs in higher education institutions. Since then, her life’s work has focussed on creating spaces for equitable and inclusive conversations, workshops, and educational programs.

EDI Facilitator
Curriculum Developer
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Heather Kelley is an equity and inclusion educator and facilitator with experience and expertise in the areas of antiracism, climate justice and LGBTQ2IAS+ inclusion.

She has a Masters of Education in Equity Studies from SFU and focused on antiracist education and queer teacher experience.

Before moving into the role of assistant director of Social Justice at the BCTF, she was a teacher in North Surrey. She has been developing, creating, and facilitating antiracism, LGBTQ2IAS+ workshops, professional development, as well as creating resources, curriculum and lesson plans for the last fifteen years both within and beyond public education.

She has a deep love of working with adults and creating spaces where vulnerability and connection lead to learning.