Bonita is Anishinaabe from Southeastern Manitoba - a member of Sakgeeng First Nation and Guyanese. She has been with the TDSB for 14 years. Her most recent role is instructional leader for Indigenous education. Bonita’s lifelong experiences and commitment has been in indigenous education and she uses these experiences to help advocate for educational self-determination for First Nations, Métis, Inuit communities. In 2017, her published paper Educationalization in Canada: The Use of Native Teacher Education as a Tool of Decoloniality, examined the historical development of Indigenous teacher education in Manitoba. She is currently completing her MEd. thesis in the World Indigenous Studies in Education at Queen’s University.

judy mckeown has been a secondary English teacher with the Peel District School Board (PDSB) for sixteen years. For half of her career, she has been a curricular head of English, sharing her desire to rethink English with her colleagues. Part of this reenvisioning includes centring authors who have most often been excluded from the traditional English classroom, as well as using and promoting anti-racist and culturally relevant and responsive pedagogies. Currently, judy is an Equity Resource Teacher whose focus is learning about and sharing her understanding of anti-colonial, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive practices, with the goal of system level change that fosters student success.