Charles Karosy BAMOUNI est un candidat du doctorat en administration éducationnelle à l’Université d’Ottawa.  Il est titulaire d’une maîtrise en leadership de l’éducation.  Depuis 1986 il a travaillé comme enseignant, gestionnaire, chargé d’études et de planification, et conseiller technique du Ministre de la Formation Professionnelle et Technique au Burkina Faso.  Présentement il occupe le poste de Conseiller Culturel auprès de l’Ambassade du Burkina Faso à Ottawa.  À ce titre, il est chargé des questions éducatives, notamment la coopération inter-universitaire et la promotion de la culture burkinabé.  Ses autres expériences acquises sont ainsi :  évaluation de projets et programmes; participation au 3ème Sommet Africain de la Science et des Technologie (Congo Brazzaville);  participation à la conférence des Ministres chargés de la formation technique et professionnelle en Afrique de l’Ouest (Dakar juin 2005); animation de conférences sur des thèmes variées et divers en éducation;  études de faisabilité et de planification d’un organe de pilotage et de gestion des infrastructures éducatives au Burkina Faso. 

Julie Comber is a doctoral student in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. She holds a BSc in Zoology (University of Guelph), a MSc in Genetics (McGill), and a MSc in Bioethics (McGill). She was the Canadian Council on Animal Care's first Research Fellow (2003-2005), where she researched welfare and policy issues about genetically engineered animals used in research. She volunteered in community development projects in Guyana (2006) and Tanzania (2007). Her research will explore what factors help humane education programs succeed. The contemporary, broad definition of humane education is education that promotes empathy towards humans and all other species, and concern about our environment. An underlying principle is that animal welfare, social justice, and environmental sustainability are interconnected. In Tanzania, Julie gained hand's on experience with the Jane Goodall Institute's humane education program, Roots&Shoots. Her current research interests flow from this experience, and from her life-long passion to promote kindness and empathy towards animals and other humans, and her commitment to promote environmental sustainability.

Chris DaSilva is a doctoral student who has significant international and national experience in education. He holds a B.A. in Environmental and International Studies (University of Waterloo), a B.Ed (University of Toronto) and an MA in International Affairs (Carleton University). He has extensive teaching and administrative experience in the realms of formal and nonformal education. From 1993 – 95 Chris was a project officer at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) where he worked on environmental education initiatives in eastern and southern Africa and administered IDRC’s Grants Programme for Young Canadian Researchers. From 1995 to 2003 Chris worked in Nunavut, first as a high school teacher (two years), a high school principal (two years), and superintendant of education for the Kivalliq Region (four years). During this period, Chris became the founding president of the Northern Youth Abroad Program (NYAP), an NGO focused on leadership and international development for Inuit youth. Much of the work of this organization takes place in southern Africa.

Debra Hauer

Judy King

Judy King is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. Judy is a physiotherapist with a Master's of Health Sciences from McMaster University. She has received scholarships from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Ontario Respiratory Care Society. She has been an invited speaker on topics such as health care communication, literacy and health, and patient education at universities, and national and international conferences. She has taught as a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa, McGill University and Dalhousie University. She is a member of the National Literacy and Health Partnership of the Canadian Public Health Association which has been raising awareness among health professionals about the links between literacy and health and building a commitment to literacy as a critical health determinant over the past decade. Her dissertation is entitled " The Meaning of Patient Education Experiences for Adult Living with Limited Literacy and Chronic Illnesses."

Ani Amirmooradian Malhami

Ani Amirmooradian Malhami holds a BA and MA from Iran and is currently a doctoral student in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa.  For her MA thesis she conducted a cross-cultural study of English and Armenian languages among men and women across different socio-economic strata. She has worked as an administrator and a tutor.  She is particularly interested in studies of literacy, and her doctoral research will focus on the rapidly evolving phenomenon of digital literacies.

Alia Mohamed

Dmitri Priven

Dmitri is a Ph. D. candidate in the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa.  He received his M.A. in Applied Linguistics from York University), with a thesis that focused on first language attrition among immigrant students and bilingual education as a way to prevent or reverse such attrition. His current doctoral research is in the areas of minority language education, immigrant children's patterns of affiliation, and minority group civic participation in host societies.  He has taught English as a Second Language (ESL) and language teaching methodologies at Seneca College, Algonquin College, and the Second Language Institute at the University of Ottawa.  He has also taught and coordinated programs in the LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada) system.  His articles and literary translations from Russian have appeared in the Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, the Toronto Slavic Quarterly, and the Canadian Scholars' Press.

Tanya Rodrigues

Tanya Rodrigues, who has a B. Soc.Sc. (Sociology and Global Studies) and a B.Ed., is currently a Masters student in the Faculty of Education.  She has worked in Brazil with a number of NGOs on youth projects and child rights advocacy.  Her research interests centre mainly on youth education in Latin America.  Her Masters thesis will focus on the potential and the constraints of education in relation to the empowerment of indigent youth.  She has an abiding interest in the role of applied action research as an instrument for facilitating social movements oriented towards peace and social justice.

Paul Seshadri

Farhat Shahzad

Farhat Shahzad is a doctoral student in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa.  She holds a BA (Education & Sociology, University of Karachi), B.Ed. (University of Karachi), MA (Pakistan Studies, University of Karachi) and M.Ed. (University of Ottawa).  She has extensive experience as a teacher and educational administrator in Pakistan.  From 1982 to 1989 Farhat worked as a primary school teacher, a high school teacher and as a vice-principal.  From 1991 – 93 she served as a lecturer at King Fahad Medical and Dental College in Karachi. From 1993 – 2005 she was a permanent faculty member of Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology Karachi, first as a lecturer, then as an assistant professor, and eventually as head of the department of Pakistan Studies. During this tenure she wrote two books on Pakistan Affairs and numerous newspaper articles.  In her current doctoral programme, she is focusing on issues pertaining to racism, anti-racism and global education.