Myriam Dumont

Myriam Dumont is a Queer elementary school teacher librarian in North Vancouver. She has been teaching since 2008 and graduated from UBC with her masters in Society, culture and politics in Education in 2010. She is also a sexual health educator and did her training with options for sexual health. She was born and raised in Vancouver and currently lives in east Vancouver with her two incredible kiddos ages 5 and 8.

Christina Billingham

Christina Billingham is the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Coordinator for the Chilliwack School District, where they lead district-wide initiatives in anti-racism, gender inclusion, and sexual health education, and serve as the District SOGI Lead. Christina is a certified sexual health educator, having completed training through Options for Sexual Health, and holds a Masters in Arts Education from Simon Fraser University. They are also the co-founder of We Are Unbound, a community-based organization dedicated to creating spaces of belonging for equity-deserving groups. Their work bridges education and community, grounded in the belief that belonging is something we build together.

Jesse Halton

Oki tsanitapii! My name is Jesse Halton. My mum is Piikani and my father is British and Scandinavian. I have worked in Aboriginal Education since I convocated from the University of Alberta, Faculté Saint Jean with a Baccalauréat en Éducation in 2004.  I have some traditional transferred ceremonial rights and have gained knowledge throughout the years from elders, family, local knowledge keepers, mentors, and youth. I love making art, traditional hand-work, and gardening.! I work in School District 8 Kootenay Lake as an Aboriginal Academic Success Teacher and as a District Indigenization Coordinators. Our work aims to deliver Indigenous content across the curriculum from K-12, and to support Indigenous heritage students to be successful.

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Gina Parkes

Gina Parkes is a Queer grade 3 educator in Chilliwack. She graduated from UVIC in 2012 and has been at Vedder Elementary since 2015. She completed her grad diploma in Nature and Place Based Learning through SFU in 2020 and went on to complete her Masters in Educational Practice in 2025. Her Masters was centered around starting up the first ever Rainbow Club in an elementary school in Chilliwack with the hopes of making her school a safer place for 2SLGBTQIA+ kids and families. She lives in Chilliwack with her wife and their cute dog, Zuma. 

Allan Lee

Allan is a school counsellor from Richmond.  He completed his graduate training at Qmunity and HIM and his post graduate diploma in Complex Trauma & Child Abuse at JIBC.  

He has a private practice as a RCC and works within a trauma informed framework using body-centred and art therapy modalities.  He works extensively with adolescents who have substance use and abuse histories.  In addition, he works with members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community on a range of issues including relationships, transitioning, and trauma using an anti-oppressive approach. He lives in Steveston with his husband, 7 year old daughter, and adopted pug.

Shanee Prasad

Shanee Prasad is a South Asian settler woman, living on the unceded territory of Musqueam, Coast Salish and Tsleil- Waututh peoples. Her parents are immigrants from the Fiji Islands, arriving on these unceded territories in the early 70s. Shanee is a Burnaby teacher, having taught Secondary Social Studies and Alternate Education. Currently she is serving her first term as 2nd Vice President of the Burnaby Teachers’ Association, a local of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation. She has bachelor’s degree in Political Science, a diploma in Special Education and Master of Education in Equity Studies from Simon Fraser University, with a focus on Anti-Racist curriculum and policy. 

As an active member of the British Columbia’s Teachers’ Federation, Shanee has led necessary union discussions on anti-racist policy and process to strengthen the workplace rights of BIPOC educators. Shanee continues her anti-racism advocacy as the president of the Anti-Oppression Educators Collective, a provincial specialist association of the BCTF.  She has been recently elected as the BCFederation of Labour Worker of Colour Representaive, for a third term, where she continues her advocacy for improved working conditions for BIPOC folx.