Hanan Alwarraq is a Project Manager with a B.A in Education from the University of Calgary, and [Hon] B.A in English Literature & Psychology from the University of Ottawa. As a bilingual (Arabic/English) Teacher and Researcher, her interests include optimizing student learning and development, refugee family collaboration and multilingual literacies.

Christine Oliver is a System Principal with the Calgary Board of Education.  She supports 31 schools across the northeast quadrant of Calgary and has a passion for working with families from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Christine has extensive experience with English Language Learning and newcomer reception services.

Rahat Zaidi is Professor and Chair of Language and Literacy in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her research expertise focuses on multilingual literacies that clarify intersectional understandings across sociophobia, diversity, immigration, and pluralism. Through her research, she advances social justice and equity and identity positioning in immigrant and transcultural contexts.

Catherine Taylor (she/her) is Director of the RISE Research Program on 2SLGBTQ+ Expansive Education (uwinnipeg.ca/rise) and Senior Scholar at The University of Winnipeg. She has led several large-scale research projects on 2SLGBTQ+-expansive education, including the First National Climate Survey, the Every Teacher Project, and the RISE Project on 2SLGBTQ+-expansive Teacher Education, and she was co-investigator on the Second National Climate Survey.

Dr. Tracey Peter is a Professor of Sociology and Criminology and the Vice-Provost (Academic Affairs) at the University of Manitoba, and is the former acting Academic Director of the Centre for Social Science Research and Policy (CSSRP). She has been involved in numerous large-scale national and international studies involving youth and other marginalized populations. Her general research and publication interests include: research methods/applied social statistics, mental health and well-being, EDI in education and work, and issues pertaining to 2SLGBTQIA+ populations.

Christopher Campbell (he/him) is a PhD candidate in Education at the University of Manitoba focusing on 2SLGBTQ+ inclusion and policy in the context of education reform. He worked as the Research Coordinator for the RISE Research Program on 2SLGBTQ+ inclusive Education (https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/rise) with Dr. Catherine Taylor at the University of Winnipeg from 2011 until April 2021. He was the research coordinator for the Every Teacher Project on LGBTQ-inclusive Education in Canada’s K–12 Schools. Chris was also co-investigator on the Second National Climate Survey on Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia in Canadian Schools, a follow-up to the landmark Egale Canada research reported in Every Class in Every School.