pedagogy + workshops
university courses
Concordia University, 2023-2024
ARTE422: Art Education in the Secondary School I
ARTE424: Art Education in the Secondary School II
ARTE425: Practicum in the Secondary School II
ARTE432: Community Art Education: Theory and Practice
ARTE670: Critical Perspectives on Art Education History: History, Theory and Practice
ARTE672: Advanced Critical Analysis
University of Alberta, 2013-2021
WGS390: Environmental Feminisms & Social Justice // 2021
EDSE307: Language, Literacy and Society // 2016; 2017; 2018
EDSE305: Curriculum & Teaching in Secondary Schools // 2014; 2015; 2017
EDCT400: Communications Technology in Educational Contexts // 2012; 2013; 2014; 2015
EDSE368: Second Language Methodology for SL Majors, IFX Term // 2013; 2014; 2015
EDSE468/451: Second Language Methodology // 2013; 2014
EDSE370: Second Language Methodology for SL Minors // 2013; 2014
public pedagogy, workshops + consulting
Landscape of Hope December 2021-2023 // Horizon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Concordia University, Montreal
Landscape of Hope is digital arts initiative + experimental remixing project that magnifies youth narratives as they pertain to building resilience against racism, discrimination, prejudice and cyberviolence.
Consultant w/ BAM (Edmonton Public Schools) September 2021-April 2022// BAM (Bennett Centre - Argyll Centre - Metro Continuing Education, Edmonton Public Schools)
BAM offers varied alternative, student-led education programs throughout Edmonton Public Schools including environmental education, virtual learning opportunities, and community-centered education.
Lectures on Ahuman Pedagogy September 2019-January 2020 // Series co-organizer with Dr. jan jagodzinski
The Lectures on Human Pedagogy series brought together academics, artists and teachers attuned to (non)pedagogical questions that take seriously the changing ecological, political, social, economic and aesthetic milieu within which education is situated today.
Solarity: After Oil School 2 May 23-25, 2019 // Workshop Co-Lead for ‘Feminist Solarities’ Workshop
Solarity: After Oil School 2 is organized by the Petrocultures Research Group and the Grierson Chair in Communication Studies. Solarity gathered forty international scholars, students, artists, activists and practitioners for three days of intensive reflection and collaboration on the challenges and possibilities of a social transition to energy systems and communities organized around the energy of the sun.
The Research-Creation + Social Justice CoLABoratory (CoLAB) Fall 2016 - Present // Research-Creation Hub at the University of Alberta; Co-Director with Dr. Natalie Loveless
The Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory(CoLAB) brings together studios, labs, and individual researchers from across the University of Alberta’s many faculties to support robust, interdisciplinary and collaborative research-creation practices. We host events, share resources, and meet monthly to discuss texts or engage in hands-on workshops. The cluster’s 2016-2019 research theme is “art(s) and the anthropocene.” Find out more and/or join the CoLAB group here
Prison Philosophy Club May 2017-June 2018 // In conjunction with Dr. Chloe Taylor and the KIAS 'Prisons, Teaching, and Social Justice' Research Cluster @ The University of Alberta
Led by Dr. Chloe Taylor and with the support of faculty and students Catherine Kellogg, Paige Gorsak, Gabrielle Warner, Danika Jorgensen-Skakum, Randi Nixon, Esther Rosario, Stefan Dehod, Anthony Goertz, Emma Kaufman, and Esra Kazanbas, this Philosophy Club at the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre features weekly discussions and activities in relation to various philosophical texts.
Learning to Hate: Pluralism in an Era of Echo Chambers June 2018 // Concordia University’s Interdisciplinary Summer Institute (CUISI); Led by Dr. Vivek Venkatesh and Dr. Brad Nelson
I was an Institute leader for this intensive week-long (3-credit) seminar for professionals and advanced graduate students, which focussed on developing sustainable means for countering, preventing and combating online hate speech.
"Learning to Hate": An Anti-Hate Comic Project 2015-2016 // Presented by Project SomeOne (SOcial Media EducatiON Every day); Co-created with Dr. Jason Wallin
These online graphic resources investigate the ways in which hate speech is experienced and negotiated in the contemporary lives of youth. Designed for preservice and practicing teachers, these mini-comics support lesson plans and catalyze classroom conversation on hate and hate speech. View the entire project, including interviews, panel discussion, poetry reading, and visual resources online here. (Principal Investigator: Jason Wallin; Art Direction/Design: Jessie Beier.)
Anthropocene, Ecology, Pedagogy: The Future in Question Fall-Winter Lecture Series 2015-2016 // Speaker Series curated with jan jagodzinksi
This lecture series addressed the question of “what might be done” -- educationally, artistically, philosophically, sociologically, and economically -- given the precarity of life today in all sectors of living. Presenters were drawn from Canada, the United States, and Europe from various faculties and departments to help explore this concern from interdisciplinary perspectives.
CINEMACHINE @ The Drawing Room 2014-2015 // Film discussion group; Organized and facilitated by Jessie Beier
CINEMACHINE was a monthly discussion group that brought together people, film, and contemporary theory. Each month a different film was explored in relation to Drawing Room (RIP) exhibitions and contemporary issues, such as representation, identity, technology, politics. Special thanks to the wonderful Chelsea Boos.
CINEMA-X-CHANGE @ The University of Alberta 2014-2015 // Film discussion group; Organized and facilitated by Jessie Beier; Presented in partnership with the Arts Based Research Studio (University of Alberta), Alberta Association for Multicultural Education, Alberta Association for Media Awareness and the Canadian Multicultural Education Foundation.
This film series and discussion group aimed to engage preservice teachers, educational practitioners, and becoming-pedagogues in cross-cultural inquiries through the medium of film. Each session featured a new film, which acted as the inspiration for dialogue pertaining to multiple areas of inquiry including: the representation of non-European ethnicities in film; cultural and cross-cultural tensions in filmic narrative; the affirmation of cultural difference and; the significance of such affirmation for pedagogy and beyond.
public speaking + presentations
Check here to see a list of talks, conference presentations and other public speaking engagements.