Faculty

Faculty
Guest Faculty / Research Associates
Guests

Sean Blenkinsop. I came to dialogue from two different directions. First, through my practice as an outdoor and experiential teacher/facilitator in various alternative venues including wilderness places and second, through my philosophical and theoretical interest in the work of Martin Buber. I have long wanted to better understand and help grow our relationships with ourselves, others, and the larger world. I grew up in Northern Ontario and spent 15 years as an outdoor, environmental, and experiential educator. Believe it or not, I have only ever made a pay-cheque through my teaching. My doctoral work in philosophy of education was completed at Harvard and focused on existentialism with a deep interest in the concepts of choice, dialogue, community, and freedom. Currently I am the primary investigator for a large SSHRC funded environmental CURA grant which is involved in the creation, researching, and ongoing day to day work of a publicly funded K-8 environmental, outdoor, experiential, and place-based school in Maple Ridge (for more information see http://es.sd42.ca/ ). Other current research interests might be situated in the area of eco-philosophy focusing on epistemological and ontological questions related to ecological worldviews, semiotics, education for community, flourishing, and wilderness as teacher. Finally, I am an associate professor of education at SFU and have been seconded for five years, beginning in the fall of 2012, to the undergraduate semester in dialogue.

Janet Moore is an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue where she teaches in the SFU Semester in Dialogue. She has imagined, designed and facilitated intensive, interdisciplinary courses that focus on community engagement, resilience, lifestyle activism, food systems, group process and urban sustainability.

Janet is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of CityStudio - an energetic hub of learning and leadership where students design and implement Greenest City solutions in collaboration with the City of Vancouver and 6 post secondary institutions (Emily Carr, UBC, SFU, VCC, BCIT and Langara). http://www.citystudiovancouver.com

She has been involved with a number of innovative sustainability education projects in Vancouver, including university engagement on sustainability curriculum at UBC where she completed her doctoral dissertation “Recreating the University from within: Sustainability and Transformation in Higher Education” with the Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education. Her post-doctoral work focused on The Learning City Project at Great Northern Way Campus–an inter-institutional project working towards integrating real world issues into the university classroom.

Janet spent 4 years as the Provincial Leader of the BC Working Group and Network on Sustainability Education, a group that is now the UN Regional Centre for Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development – British Columbia.

She is a research associate with the SFU Centre for Sustainable Community Development and her interests include transdisciplinary higher education, transformative learning, community based learning, participatory action research, sustainability education and organizational change in higher education. Janet is passionate about teaching and learning, facilitating dialogue and participatory processes. She keeps busy riding bikes and planting veggies with her 2 kids.

Mark L. Winston has had a distinguished career researching, teaching, writing and commenting on bees and agriculture, environmental issues, and science policy. More recently, he has utilized dialogue in classrooms, corporations, non-profit organizations, government, and community settings to develop leadership and communication skills, conduct strategic planning, inspire organizational change, and thoughtfully engage public audiences with controversial issues. Winston's work has appeared in numerous books, commentary columns for the Vancouver Sun, The New York Times, The Sciences, Orion magazine, and frequently on CBC radio and television and National Public Radio. His research, communication, and dialogue achievements have been recognized by many awards, including the Manning Award for Innovation, Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy, British Columbia Gold Medal in Science and Engineering, Academic of the Year, Eve Savory Award for Science Communication, Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion, a prestigious Killam Fellowship from the Canada Council, and election as a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada. He currently is Academic Director of Simon Fraser University's Centre for Dialogue, and a Professor of Biological Sciences.

Guest Faculty / Research Associates

Don Alexander has a Ph.D. in urban planning and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. He coordinates research on sustainability and place-making for the New City Institute, and is writing a book called Place: Repairing the Fabric of Human Experience. He also is a professor in the Geography Department at Malaspina University College in Nanaimo, past president of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, is a founding member of British Columbia’s Community Development Institute, and the lead author and project manager for the BC Sprawl Report 2004.
Siobhan Ashe is the faculty member for the spring 2008 program "Exploring Citizenship in Canada: Individual to Community, from Local to Global". Siobhan's doctoral research in the department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia focuses on sustainable community development planning and local level democratic engagement processes, with particular emphasis on the intersection of community based capacity building models and culturally determined socialization practices. A component of her research interests includes the initiation of and active participation within a range of sustainability initiatives in the Vancouver area. This has included the coordination of collaboration amongst diverse community representatives within the social realm of the GVRD's "Sustainable Region Initiative". In her community facilitation work and as a post-secondary instructor, she engages and continues to be inspired by an array of dialogue processes designed to create opportunities to foster collective imaginations and collaboration.
Heesoon Bai is a Professor in Philosophy of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada. A past recipient of the Simon Fraser University Excellence in Teaching Award, the Roger Hamill's Environmental Educator's Award, and the Canadian Society for the Studies in Education Mentorship Award, and the Editor (2005-2010) of Paiduesis, Canadian Journal of Philosophy of Education, Professor Bai researches and writes in the intersections of ethics, ecophilosophy, psychotherapy, contemplative ways, and Asian philosophies. Her co-edited and co-authored books include: Fields of Green: Restorying Culture, Environment, Education (2009); Speaking of Teaching: Inclinations, Inspirations, and Innerworkings (2012); and Contemplative Learning and Inquiry Across Disciplines (forthcoming). Her most recent publications are in Journal of Moral Education, Ethnography and Education, and International Handbook on Research in Environmental Education. Through her work and teaching, she promotes cross-cultural, worldview-based, and comparative philosophies in education. As an Asian-Canadian researcher, she is active in East-West dialogue.
Herb Barbolet has been active in community development for more than 30 years - Working in community planning, energy conservation, citizen participation, cooperative housing, and food and agriculture. He now works in food policy research, projects and programmes: linking food to community economic development, health and safety, environment, social justice, and international development - from the very local to the global. He is one of the leading food activists in North America. Herb has a B.A. in Urbanism, a Masters in Community Development, and doctoral studies in Community Development and later in Community Planning and Political Economy. As Associate with the Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University since 2003 he has co-authored food assessment studies for provincial health authorities and a guide to food assessments for the provincial health services authority.
Herb consulted on the establishment of the Vancouver Food Policy Council and Year 3 of the SFU Imagine BC Programme. He was the founder, and for 10 years, executive director of FarmFolk/CityFolk, an internationally recognized NGO. Earlier he was the executive director of the Community Planning Association of Canada (BC) for five years and developed cooperative housing for 10 years. He appears regularly on CBC radio Almanac's Food Panel, and in all media. Herb was a founding member of numerous non-profits (including the Cooperative Housing Federation of BC and the BC Association for Regenerative Agriculture).
Sean Blenkinsop grew up in Northern Ontario and has a long of history as an outdoor, environmental, and experiential educator. Doctoral work, completed at Harvard, was philosophical in nature with an interest in choice, dialogue, community, and freedom. He is active in research relating to culturally inclusive imaginative education that focuses on Aboriginal youth. Current research interests might be situated in the area of eco-philosophy focusing on epistemological and ontological questions related to ecological worldviews, semiotics, education for community flourishing, indigeneity and wilderness as teacher.
Nadine Caron, MD, MPH, FRCSC, was astounded to learn in 1997 that she was the first aboriginal woman to graduate from the University of BC's medical school. The Kamloops native now regularly encourages aboriginal kids throughout the continent to attend university. “I tell them they can achieve anything if they work hard and believe in themselves,” says Caron, who also holds a BSc from Simon Fraser University and a master of public health degree from Harvard, earned while completing her surgical residency. Caron has won more than 20 major academic awards and was named one of Maclean's 100 Faces of the Future. She is passionate about aboriginal health and Canadian health policy, and has served on committees with numerous stakeholders including the BC and Canadian medical associations and the BC health ministry. Caron recently completed a residency in endocrine surgeryat the University of California at San Francisco, and currently is a faculty member in the Northern Medicine Program at the University of Northern British Columbia and practicing medicine in \Prince George.

Mike Carr has taught for the past 9 years both at SFU and UBC as a sessional instructor. Mike has taught a wide range of courses in a variety of disciplines and departments: Urban Studies, Geography, First Nations Studies, Anthropology/Sociology, and Humanities. In addition to First Nations courses, Mike teaches Urban Sustainable Development, Development Planning and Policy, Regional Planning, Urban Geography, A Critique of Corporate Globalism, Bioregional Thought and Spirituality, and Bioregional Planning and Mapping. He has also taught Environmental Ethics at Capilano College. In academia, Mike is known as an activist professor. He constantly challenges students to question the system and to think about ways of changing it. Mike has published a range of articles and a book, Bioregionalism and Civil Society: Democratic Challenges to Corporate Globalism.

Mike is a long-time community activist. Currently, he is a Director of the Grandview-Woodlands Area Council, his local citizens council which is engaged in efforts to green Grandview-Woodlands, opposes the Federal and Provincial Governments Gateway Project, and supports taking real action on homelessness which has reached crisis proportions in Vancouver and across Canada.
Mike has worked for a wide variety of citizens groups over many years, including the Aurora Institute which he helped found, The Native Education Society, the Eco-City Network, the Northwest Ecosystem Alliance, the Community Development Institute, the Greening Our Cities Conference, the Community Steps Forum, the Labour Environmental Alliance Society, SPEC, the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, the Community Living Society, Vancouver Cooperative Radio Station, CKLN Community Radio in Toronto, The Peoples Food Commission, Toronto First Nations School, The Toronto Committee for the Liberation of Southern Africa, and the Ontario Public Housing Tenants Association.
Mike is currently a member of the Livable Region Coalition, the Council of Canadians, Vancouver Cooperative Radio Station, Van City Credit Union, the East Van Food Coop and Charles Square Housing Coop.

Kevin Chan is Director of Policy, Parliamentary Affairs and Research in the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, an independent Agent of Parliament protecting the privacy rights of Canadians. In this role, he leads the teams providing strategic advice to the Commissioner on a wide variety of privacy issues, such as those touching on national security and the digital economy. He is responsible for the development of OPC's privacy guidelines for the private sector, as well as its Contributions Program, considered one of the foremost privacy research funding programs in the world.

Kevin has extensive experience working at the centre of both Government and politics. From 2009 – 2011 he was Director of Policy and Senior Policy Advisor to the Leader of the Opposition. From 2004 – 2009 Kevin served under two Prime Ministers in the Privy Council Office – including as Director, Office of the Clerk of the Privy Council. He began his career as a management consultant at the Monitor Group.

Kevin is a co-founder of DreamCatcher Mentoring, which recently won a Martin Aboriginal Education Initiative Award. He was a Visiting Policy Fellow at SFU's School of Public Policy in fall 2011.

Kevin graduated from Harvard Kennedy School and the Ivey School of Business, where he was a President Scholar. He also studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and is an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music. A 2004 Action Canada Fellow, Kevin received the Public Service Award of Excellence in 2006, was selected for the 2008 Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference, and received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.

Robert Daum has been Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature & Jewish Thought, as well as founding Director of Iona Pacific Inter-religious Centre, at the Vancouver School of Theology, since 2009. Iona Pacific is an inter-religious Centre that seeks to discover, model, and disseminate best practices in inter-religious cooperation in addressing critical local and global issues www.ionapacific.ca. He also is a Faculty Associate of the Centre for Women's and Gender Studies, a member of the Law and Society Advisory Board and held the Diamond Chair in Jewish Law & Ethics at the University of British Columbia from 2002-2009, until leaving to head up the newly established Iona Pacific Inter-religious Centre.
Robert completed his B.A. magna cum laude in Political Science at Tufts University and was ordained as a rabbi at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in New York, where he also completed his M.A. in Hebrew Literature. Subsequently he earned a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and served in the congregational rabbinate in California for nine years, where he was active in inter-religious initiatives and educational administration. He has been a visiting scholar at Roman Catholic, Lutheran, United Church, Anglican, and Jewish institutions. His publications include critical studies of Jewish culture, philosophy, rhetoric, and religious literature www.vst.edu/main/people/faculty/daum.
Duane Elverum is Assistant Professor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. As a designer, sustainability educator and co-founder of CityStudio Vancouver, his teaching and research explores how universities can connect students to public issues with studio-based, collaborative and dialogic learning models oriented toward civic engagement. He is currently an associate with SFU's Center for Dialogue as well as a director with the eatART Foundation, and director and secretary of MODO, the Car Co-op. Recently he juried Prefab 2020, an international architectural competition, as well as B.C. Hydro's Invent the Future competition.

He has crossed the Pacific Ocean in a sailboat 6 times, most recently in 2010 sailing from Hawaii to Vancouver with OceanGybe's Plastics Research Expedition. He holds a bachelor's degree with honors in architecture from UBC.

Barbara Frisken is a Professor in the Physics Department at Simon Fraser University. She is an experimental physicist who studies how mictrostructure affects bulk materials properties in soft condensed matter systems such as conducting polymers, microgels and colloidal dispersions. She has taught a variety of courses including a third year course, Energy and the Environment, a course that provides a physical and quantitative introduction to energy-related issues. She enjoys interacting with students and investigating different ways of learning. Interest in increasing quantitative and scientific reasoning around energy issues and in learning through dialogue has encouraged her to participate in this semester's program.

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Mary Jane Jim has devoted her career to community and political advocacy on behalf of her people. A member of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, she served as Vice-chief for the Yukon region on the Executive Committee of the Assembly of First Nations for two terms and was the only woman among the 10 regional Vice-chiefs.

Ms. Jim is a 'Kajit' (crow) person born into the matriarchal Southern Tutchone/Tglingit society in the Yukon. She was raised primarily by her grandmother, who taught her the importance of honouring traditional values and speaking with integrity and respect. She attended a residential school from the ages of 7 to 15, and completed her education in the Yukon public school system. She served on the executive of the Indian Women's Association, was a councilor at Kwanlin Dun, and served on the executive of the Council for Yukon Indians. She focused on health, healing, and social development, and during that period worked with the Elders at the Skookum Jim Friendship Centre to develop and implement a traditional parenting program.

Ms. Jim has committed herself to re-learning cultural values and strongly believes in the value of continued leadership development for youth.
Ted Kirkpatrick is an Associate Professor of Computing Science. He has worked on designing more usable computer systems and building software support for expert designers and analysts. Recently he has focused on enhancing undergraduate education, both in computing and throughout the university. To this end, he served as Chair of the Senate Committee on University Teaching and Learning, as Director of Undergraduate Programs for Computing Science, and is now the University Teaching Fellow for the Faculty of Applied Science. He constantly seeks ways to increase student engagement in his classes and assess students in ways that encourage a deep rather than shallow approach to learning the material. He has taken the SFU ReThinking Teaching workshopd co-facilitate and it a second time.
Whatever his mood, he can always improve it by riding his bicycle.
Peter Ladner is a former politician and business owner who is currently a business columnist and sustainability consultant.
He was first elected to Vancouver City Council in 2002 and re-elected in 2005. He ran unsuccessfully for mayor as the NPA candidate in 2008. As a city councillor, he was the city budget chair, sat on the TransLink Board, and was Vice Chair of the Metro Vancouver board of mayors and councilors from around the Lower Mainland.

Peter has been publisher, president and part owner of the Business in Vancouver Media Group, which he co-founded by establishing the award-winning Business in Vancouver weekly newspaper in 1989. In 1999 he was a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards in his business category. He has more than 35 years of journalistic experience in print, radio and television and is a frequent speaker on business and community issues.
His community and business experience includes participation in the Vancouver City Planning Commission and the Capital Campaign for the Vancouver Public Library and the Central Valley Greenway. He has also served on the boards of Leadership Vancouver, International Centre for Sustainable Cities, The UBC Alumni Association, New Media BC, the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, Jumpstart Dance Company and the international Association of Area Business Publications. He is the Honorary Chair of the Subaru Vancouver International Half-Iron and Sprint Triathlon and a member of the national board of The Natural Step Canada.
Peter MacLeod is principal of The Planning Desk, an evolving studio for public systems design. A visiting lecturer at Simon Fraser University's innovative Semester in Dialogue Program, he recently returned to Canada from the British think tank Demos where he spent two years consulting to a range of public, private and non-profit organizations. He is an alumnus of the American business magazine Fast Company, and is an occasional instructor at Kaospilots, a school for business design and social innovation in Denmark. An Action Canada fellow and doctoral candidate at the London School of Economics, he traveled the country in 2004, visiting 100 federal constituency offices, investigating what he calls the “root system of parliament.” He is always happiest on the road, in a rowboat or on Wolfe Island.
Geoff Mann teaches and is the graduate chair in the Geography department at Simon Fraser University, and directs SFU's Centre for Global Political Economy. His teaching and research focus on the political economy of contemporary capitalism, with a special emphasis on the power and politics of macroeconomic policy in Europe and North America, and on the relationship between macroeconomic governance and climate change. His first book, Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers and the Political Economy of the American West (2007), won the American Political Science Association's Michael Harrington Prize and the American Sociological Association's Paul Sweezy Prize, and a second, Disassemly Required: A Field Guid to Actually Existing Capitalism will appear in Spring 2013. He is currently at work on a third, a study of the resurrection of Keynesian ideas and policies in the wake of the current financial crisis. Geoff has a long association with the Dogwood Initiative, a Victoria-based NGO, and with the BC office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. He and his partner and their two sons live, obsess about soccer, and cook up a lot of excellent Mexican food right next to Trout Lake Park in East Vancouver.
Judith Marcuse's career spans over 40 years of professional work as a dancer, choreographer, director, producer, teacher, writer, consultant and lecturer in Canada and abroad. She has created over 100 original works for live performance by dance, theatre and opera companies as well as for film and television and has produced seven large-scale, international arts festivals. Her repertory contemporary dance company toured extensively in Canada and abroad for 15 years, while also producing community residencies and youth programs.

Among her many projects, the issue-based ICE, FIRE and EARTH projects, each five years long, involved thousands of youth in workshops, national touring, television production and extensive community collaborations across Canada. The ICE Project explored issues that can lead to teen suicide; the FIRE Project looked at how violence is experienced by young people; and the EARTH Project examined issues of environmental and social justice.

An advocate for the integration of arts-based dialogue into diverse social change contexts, Marcuse works in arts, university and community settings in Canada and abroad, most recently in Northern Ireland, Finland and South Africa. Founder and Co-Director of the International Centre of Art for Social Change (www.icasc.ca ), she is a Senior Fellow of Ashoka International. Among her many honours, she has received the Lee and Chalmers Canadian choreographic awards and an honorary doctorate from Simon Fraser University.
Kevin Millsip's passion is the intersection between environment and social justice. He has served as an elected Trustee on the Vancouver School Board where he drafted one of Canada’s strongest policies protecting students from advertising in schools, worked to increase student involvement in the School Board and began a project called Sustainable Schools which is now working with Vancouver schools to implement climate change action plans. He was a founder and Director of Check Your Head which has worked with over 40,000 young people to get involved in global issues and co-founded Get Your Vote On - a campaign which registered 20,000 new voters for the 2005 election in BC.
He is currently the Sustainability Coordinator with the Vancouver School Board and the Director of Next Up, a leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice. Next Up operates in BC, Alberta and now Saskatchewan.
He is on the Board’s of the Canadian Centre for Policy alternatives – BC Office, The Centre for Civic Governance, Headlines Theatre and the Small Change Fund and is an advisor for The City of Vancouver’s Greenest City Action Plan process.
He love's his bike and rooftop garden plot.
Andrew Nikiforuk is a well-known Canadian journalist who has written about education, economics, and the environment for the last two decades. His work as appeared in Saturday Night, MacLean’s Canadian Business, Report on Business, Chatelaine, Georgia Straight, Equinox, Harrowsmith, Canadian Family, and in both national newspapers. Articles focusing on natural resources have won four National Magazine Awards and top honors from the Association of Canadian journalists. In 1991 the Toronto Star awarded him an Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy to study AIDS and the failure of public health policy. His first non-fiction book, The Fourth Horseman: A Short History of Plagues, Scourges and Emerging Viruses won critical raves in England, Canada, and the United States. His 2001 book Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil, received the Governor-General’s Award for non-fiction, and his most recent book Pandemonium: Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease, and Other Biological Plagues of the 21st Century was published in 2006. Andrew Nikiforuk and his family live in Calgary, Alberta.
Nancy Olewiler is a Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University and Director of the Public Policy Program at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia. Prior to coming to SFU in 1990, she was an Associate Professor at Queen's University in Ontario. Olewiler has held visiting positions at the University of Colorado, University of California, Berkely, and University of New South Wales. Her areas of research include natural resource and environmental policy, the impact of environmental regulation on the economy, and environmental tax policy. She has published in academic journals, edited books, has written two widely used textbooks, and produced numerous reports forthe Canadian federal and provincial governments on a wide range of environmental and natural resource issues. From 1990 to 1995 she was Managing Editor of Canadian Public Policy, Canada’s leading public policy journal. Olewiler serves as a resource person for the Environment and Economy Program for Southeast Asia.
Michelle Patterson is a Scientist and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. She obtained a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of British Columbia (2002). Since 2005, she has worked with non-profit organizations and multiple levels of government to examine the impacts of housing, poverty, and mental illness on various facets of health and social inclusion. For the past four years, Michelle has been a co-Investigator on the At Home/Chez Soi project, a randomized controlled trial taking place in 5 cities across Canada to examine various models of housing and support services for people who are homeless and have mental illness. Before joining SFU, Michelle worked for three years as a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Yale University and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale Child Study Centre where she was involved in a project that examined a home-based intervention for poor and high-risk mothers with young children. Michelle also has a part-time Clinical Psychology practice in Vancouver. In her spare time, she enjoys climbing mountains, skiing, riding her bike, and working in the garden.
Tony Penikett is the author of Reconciliation: First Nation Treaty Making In British Columbia. A former Deputy Minister of Negotiations and, later, Labour in the British Columbia Government, Penikett had previously served as senior policy advisor in the Cabinet Planning Unit of the Government of Saskatchewan. From 1977 to 1995, he represented Whitehorse West in the Yukon Legislative Assembly.
Andrea Rose has an extensive background in music and music education. As a teacher, researcher, performer, clinician and adjudicator, she maintains an active role in the ongoing development of music and arts education at national and international levels. She holds undergraduate degrees in music and music education from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a Masters in Music and PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently, Dr. Rose is a Professor with the Faculty of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland. In 1998, she was the recipient of The President's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Memorial University. In 2004 she received the National 3M Teaching Fellowship Award granted by 3M and the Canadian Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
Dr. Rose taught in the Newfoundland and Labrador school system from 1979-1990. From 1980-1989, she was the Music Director at Holy Heart of Mary High School where she conducted the largest orchestral program in the province. Since coming to Memorial University in 1990, Dr. Rose's teaching experiences have included undergraduate and graduate courses in instrumental teaching methods, secondary school music methods, secondary strings, string repertoire and performance techniques, seminars in music education and graduate courses in Teaching and Learning. She is also an invited guest faculty member of Simon Fraser University's Centre for Dialogue where she co-teaches in the Semester in Dialogue Program). In Fall 2009, she will co-teach Art in Community: Creating Cultures of Ingenuity and Innovation.
Dr. Rose is a member of a number of committees for the Department of Education, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and in 2005-2006 was commissioned by the provincial Government to complete a major study entitled State of the Art: Arts and Cultural Education in Newfoundland and Labrador (2006). Dr. Rose serves on several national and international boards/committees including Debut Atlantic, the Canadian Music Educators' Association Publications Advisory Committee and the International Society for Music Education (ISME) North American Regional Planning Committee.
Dr. Rose's research interests relate primarily to the development of a critical pedagogy and the formation of social and cultural consciousness within music/arts education generally, and music teacher preparation specifically. Her research includes the study of teacher identity through critical reflection and inquiry, the place of indigenous musics in formal curricula, and the development of e-contexts for music teaching and learning. She has published widely in these areas and has been an invited keynote speaker and presenter at a variety of national and international conferences.
Dr. Rose performs as a violinist with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra and is founding Chair of the NSO Education Program Committee. She is also an Artistic Director of the biennial Festival 500 Sharing the Voices International Choral Festival. Festival 500 is a world-renowned international non-competitive festival and celebration of choral music that takes place in the intimate setting of North America's oldest city, St. John.s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. She is also Co-Director of The Phenomenon of Singing International Symposia, an integral academic and scholarly component of Festival 500 that is co-sponsored by Memorial University of Newfoundland and Festival 500. In 2011, Festival 500 Sharing the Voices will take place July 3-10, 2011 and The Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium VIII will occur July 10-13, 2011.
Mark Roseland, PhD, MCIP, is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University and a professor in SFU’s Department of Geography. He was the North American Editor of the international journal Local Environment, published in association with the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, from its inception in 1995 until 2002. Dr. Roseland lectures internationally and advises communities and governments on sustainable development policy and planning. Dr. Roseland has published widely, and his work has been cited in numerous journals. Over 12,000 copies of Dr. Roseland's book Toward Sustainable Communities: A Resource Book for Municipal and Local Governments were distributed internationally by the Government of Canada's National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy. A completely revised and updated edition of this landmark book, titled Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and Their Governments, is published by New Society Publishers. Roseland chairs the Community Advisory Committee (CAC) of the Simon Fraser University Community Trust, responsible for the UniverCity sustainable community development project, and has served on the Trust's Board of Directors since the beginning of the project. He also teaches courses on sustainable community development that have focused extensively on the UniverCity project, as well as the City of Vancouver's model sustainable community being developed at Southeast False Creek, and the Vancouver-Whistler 2010 Olympic Bid.
Glenn Sigurdson has been a Resident Fellow at the Centre for Dialogue since 2001, and is one of the leading facilitators, mediators, and arbitrators in Canada. His appointment, initially funded by the CP Foundation, was instrumental in developing the Dialogue Forum and in connecting the Centre with the international dialogue community. He continues to be active in developing new initiatives, most recently the National Judicial Institute program, the emerging Dialogues in Health Care, and the Olympic Legacy Dialogues. He also has been a major contributor to the Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue, developing curriculum and teaching in all of our programs to date.
Yona Sipos is completing a PhD in Integrated Studies in Land & Food Systems at UBC. Through her research, she engages community, government, and business food system leaders across southern BC to partner with university students in applied food system study. The complex theme of food systems powerfully connects across disciplines and with many other sustainability issues.

Yona was lead designer for UBC’s Sustainability 101, an interdisciplinary, introductory course in sustainability studies. Through the UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning & Technology, she co-developed programs to support postsecondary educators in community-based learning and sustainability education. Yona was a member of the: NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Rethinking Higher Education to meet the New Challenges of Environmental Security; British Columbia Working Group on Sustainability Education; Vancouver Food Policy Council; and UBC Farm Advisory Council. She is co-facilitating the 2012 SEAP-BC (Sustainability Education across the Province) program at UNBC. She holds a B.Sc. (Honours) in Plant Biology from the University of Guelph and a M.Sc. in Forest Ecology from UBC.

Yona is thrilled to be working with the SFU Semester in Dialogue program!
Rob VanWynsberghe, PhD, is a sociologist who is cross appointed in Human Kinetics and Educational Studies at UBC. His research studies the complex social processes which underlie NGO, community and university engagement, especially as these partnerships promote healthy and sustainable communities. Current funded research projects include a study of the impacts of 2010 Vancouver and Whistler Olympic Games on the lower mainland community. The intention of this research is to examine mega-events and how these can be leveraged to maximize their benefits (e.g., capacity building, training, etc). In addition, he is conducting action research on inter-institutional and transdisciplinary collaboration in sustainability programming at Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver BC. He has recently completed a study on tobacco taxation in First Nations and Inuit communities in BC and Canada. This research scopes out the challenges and benefits of tobacco to programs that support healthy Aboriginal communities. Finally, he is researching the definitions and uses of case studies and the creation of a cross-case analysis database. The purpose is to extend the utility of case studies by providing the means for their being compared and contrasted with other case studies. In terms of teaching, his intent is to exemplify how higher education can develop synergistic relationships among classroom instruction, research projects, and community programs. Classrooms that reflect a truly engaged university provide a space in which teaching, learning and research are informed by community engagement and a commitment to democratic problem solving. He has recently published in Local Environment and Canadian Journal of Education and International Journal of Qualitative Methods.
Peter Williams is a Professor in Simon Fraser University’s Department of Resource and Environmental Management. His academic and professional research focuses on policy, planning, and management issues in tourism and outdoor recreation. He is particularly interested in the development of policy and planning frameworks that can be used to guide the sustainable use of natural and cultural resources for tourism purposes. Currently his research is concerned with the development of methods for assessing tourism demand for natural and cultural resources; strategies for encouraging corporate environmental programs in mountain resort destinations; and procedures for creating strategic alliances between community and tourism stakeholders. Dr. Williams is former president of the Canadian and International chapters of the Travel and Tourism Research Association, an organization dedicated to encouraging excellence in tourism research. He also is a member of the International Academy For the Study of Tourism, and a Governor of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. He recently received the prestigious “Life time Achievement Award” from the Travel and Tourism Research Association for his contributions to tourism research around the globe. He serves on the editorial review boards of several academic journals including the Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, and Tourism Recreation Research.
Hannah Wittman received her degrees from the University of Washington (B.A.) and Cornell University (M.S., PhD.). She conducts collaborative research on local food systems, farmer networks and citizenship with the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and La Vía Campesina in Brazil and with local food networks in British Columbia as part of an international network of scholars engaged in applied and theoretical applications of the concept of food sovereignty. With specific research interests in environmental sociology, agrarian citizenship, and agrarian social movements, she has published articles in the Journal of Rural Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, the Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Land Degradation and Development and Human Organization, and is co-editor of Food Sovereignty: Reconnecting Food, Nature and Community and Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems.

Guests

The Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue has hosted a number of dialogues with leaders from various sectors—government, not-for-profit, academic, business and industry, and the media:

Not for Profit / Community-based
Annalee Adair, ArtSmarts National Coordinator, Canadian Conference of the Arts
Don Alexander, Director, New City Institute
John Atkin, Author, Historian and Heritage Advocate
Tamsin Baker, Regional Manager, The Land Conservance of BC
Kevin Bao, Eonfire
Herb Barbolet, Executive Director, Farm Folk/City Folk Society
Gwen Barlee, Policy Director, Wilderness Committee
Patricia Bell, Senior Community Energy Planner, Community Energy Association
Helen Beynon, Community Development Office Coordinator, Evergreen Orchard
Vickie Cammack, Executive Director, Plan Institute for Citizenship and Disability
Karen Campbell, Staff Counsel & Director of Strategy, Pembina Institute
Alan Carpenter, Windsong Housing Co-op
Morag Carter, Director of Climate Change, David Suzuki Foundation
Helen Carruthers, Manager, Public Outreach & Volunteer Programs, Lighthouse Sustainable Building Centre
Bob Chamberlin, Vice President , Union of BC Indian Chiefs
Don Chapman, Lost Canadians
Tung Chan, CEO, SUCCESS Foundation
Dena Coward, Director, 2010 Paralympics
Andrea Curtis, Program Coordinator, Next Up BC Leadership Program
Jane Darville, Chair, Dr. Peter Aids Foundation
Noam Dolgin, Adam v' Adamah
Brent Dolsen, Special Advisor, 2010 Legacies Now
Seann Dory, Manager of Sustainability, SOLEfood Garden
Tom Durning, Tenants Rights Action Coalition
David Eby, Pivot Legal Society
David Eddy, Vancouver Native Housing Society
Peter Elliott, The Very Rev. Dean & Rector, Christ Church Cathedral
Jason Emmert, Community Assistance Program, Smart Growth BC
Maureen Enser, Executive Director, Urban Development Institute Pacific Region
Al Etmanski, Advisor, Plan Institute for Citizenship and Disability
David Firman, President, Charles Square Housing Co-op
Barbara Fitzgerald, Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children
Michael Geller, CEO, UniverCity
Herb George, Lawyer
Lillian George, United Native Nations
Ian Gill, President, Ecotrust Canada
Fiona Gold, Street Nurse, BC Centre for Disease Control
Ginger Gosnell, BC Centre for Disease Control
Jason Gratl, President, BC Civil Liberties Association
Sukhdev Grewal, President, South Asian Family Association Board
Michael Hale, Yarrow Eco Village
Nancy Hall, Epidemiologist and Community Facilitator, Be Well Consultants
Arzeena Hamir, Coordinator, Richmond Food Security Society
Joey Hartman, Vice President, Labour History Association
Cheeying Ho, Executive Director, Smart Growth BC
Wesley Hosler, Lori Krill Co-op
Daniel Igali, President, Igali Foundation
John Irwin, Southeast False Creek Stewardship Group
Michael Ingham, Bishop, Anglican Church
Maggie Ip, Chair, SUCCESS Foundation
Penny Irons, Aboriginal Mother Centre Society
Maureen Jack-LaCroix, Executive Director, Be the Change Earth Alliance
Dave Joe, Barrister
Robert Joseph, BC Residential School Project
Roxanne Joyal, Special Projects Consultant, Free the Children
Emily Jubenvill, Greenest Person in Canada
Sara Kendall, Program Director, Leave Out Violence (LOVE) BC
Haroon Khan, al Jamia Masjid
Craig Kielberger, Founder and Chair, Free the Children
Seth Klein, Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Rick Kohn, Chief Financial Officer, Ecotrust Canada
David Kuhl, Palliative Care Expert, St. Paul's Hospital Centre For Practitioner Renewal
Kelly L’Hirondelle, KAYA
Andre La Rivere, Executive Director, Green Table Network
Otto Langer, Marine Conservation Program Director, David Suzuki Foundation
Tom Laviolette, Portland Hotel Society
Marion Lay, Former President, Legacies Now
Michael Levenston, Co-founder & Executive Director, City Farmer
Johanna Li, Project Manager, DTES Kitchen Tables Project
Cynthia Low, DTES Women's Centre
David MacIntyre, Mental Health Advocate for the Court System, Motivation, Power and Acheivement Society
James MacKinnon, Journalist & Author, 100 Mile Diet Society
Ian Marcuse, Paloma Housing Co-op
David Marshall, Executive Director, Fraser Basin Council
Janos Maté, Activist, Greenpeace
Tara McDonald, Executive Director, Your Local Farmers Market
Jim McGraw, Director, Newsletter Editor, Vancouver Historical Society
Kevin McNaney, Community Assistance Program Coordinator, Smart Growth BC
Kevin Millsip, Check Your Head
Don Montgomery, Executive Director, Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society
Erin Morissette, Eonfire
Dawn Morrison, Program Coordinator, Vancouver Native Health Society Garden Project
Donna Morton, Founder and Executive Director, Centre for Integral Economics
Marcia Nozick, Director, EMBERS
Jason O'Brien, Project Manager, MOBY Community Garden Association
Oonagh O'Conner, Living Oceans Society
Jim O'Dea, Former Director, BC Housing/Terra Housing Consultants
Tom Owen, Volunteer, Engineers Without Borders
Christine Parnell-Smith, Vancouver Aboriginal Transformative Justice Services
Gary Paterson, St. Andrew's Wesley
Josh Paterson, Staff Counsel, West Coast Environmental Law
Tamara Pearl, Vice President, Daniel Pearl Foundation
Emily Pearson, Richmond Fruit Tree Sharing Farm
Denise Philippe, Program Manager, Evergreen
Lucia Plescia Beamish, Development Coordinator, Be The Change Earth Alliance
Al Poettcker, President & CEO, UBC Properties Trust
Cheryl Prepchuk, Executive Director, Vancouver Food Bank Society
Emmanuel Prinet, One Earth
Tim Pringle, Executive Director, Real Estate Foundation of BC
Heather Pritchard, Executive Director, Farm Folk/City Folk
Shahar Rabi, Student, Simon Fraser University
Carole Ranger, Nutritionist, REACH Community Health Centre
Andrea Reimer, Executive Director, Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Liz Roberts, Mental Health Advocate & Co-ordinator, Motivation Power Achievement Society
Deanna Rogers, Founder, Strathcona Zero Waste Project
John Savage, President, Delta Farmer’s Institute
Sandra Severs, First United Church
Ione Smith, Special Projects Coordinator, Smart Growth BC
Shane Simpson, Director of Communication and Policy, Smart Growth BC
Helen Spiegelman, Former Director, SPEC BC
Katharine Steig, Friends of Cypress Park
Art Sterritt, Executive Director, Coastal First Nations Turning Point Initiative
Barry Stuart, CSE Group
Jill Thompson, Citizens for Change Coordinator, Sierra Club of BC
William Trousdale, President, EcoPlan International
Mauro Vescera, Program Director, Vancouver Foundation
Thi Vu, Manager, Economic Security Project, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Jill Weiss, Former President, BC Coalition of People with Disabilities
Alex Wallace, Friends of Cypress Provincial Park
Chief Bill Williams, Squamish Nation
Megan Williams, National Director, Canadian Conference of the Arts
Nina Winham, Vice-President, Ecotrust Canada
Larry Wong, Director, Curator, Chinese Canadian Military Museum
Jessica Wooliams, Co-Director, Cascadia Region Green Building Council
Rudy Young, Mental Health Advocate for the Court System, Motivation, Power and Achievement Society
Jen, Grant and Rhyannon, Clean Bin Project

Government: Municipal, Provincial, Federal, Crown Corporation
Ruben Anderson, Writer/Consultant, Metro Zero Waste Program
Rick Antonsen, President and CEO, Tourism Vancouver
Jill Atkey, SPARC BC
Chris Baber, Project Manager, Neighbourhood Energy Utility
Chief Kim Baird, Tsawwassen First Nations
Penny Ballem, Former Deputy Minister of Health, Government of BC
Curtis Barlow, CEO, Institute for Canadian Citizenship
Lori Baxter, Director, Arts Now/2010 Legacies Now
Larry Beasley, Director of Current Planning, City of Vancouver
John Blatherwick, Chief Medical Health Officer, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
Sarah Blyth, Park Board Commisssioner, City of Vancouver
Rob Butler, Research Scientist, Canadian Wildlife Service Environment Canada
Johnny Carline, Metro Vancouver
Ken Carrusca, Manager, Integrated Planning Division, Metro Vancouver
Spencer Chandra Herbert, NDP MLA Vancouver, Provincial Government
Ken Chow, Service Planner, Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (Translink)
Linda Coady, Vice President Sustainability, VANOC
Marcy Cohen, Research & Policy Director, Hospital Employees Union
Stewart Cohen, Researcher, Adaptation and Impacts Research Division (AIRD) Atmospheric Science and Technology Directorate (ASTD)
Barbara Cole, Public Art Consultant, City of Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs
Lindsay Cole, Greenest City Planner, City of Vancouver
Derek Corrigan, Mayor, City of Burnaby
Steven Dang, Social Planner, City of Vancouver
Mark Davidson, Director, Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Libby Davies, Member of Parliament
Olive Dempsey, Planning Analyst, City of Vancouver
Bob Devlin, Research Scientist, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Jerry Dobrovolny, Director of Transportation, City of Vancouver
Charles Dobson, Community Activist & Author
Tilo Driessen, Manager of Planning and Research, City of Vancouver
Hilary Dunn, First Nations Coordinator, VANOC
Bob Elton, President, CEO, B.C. Hydro
Barbara Fitzgerald, Developmental Pediatrician, Sunny Hill Health Centre
Amy Fournier, Community Outreach Coordinator, City of Vancouver
Jacky Fraser, Retired Physician, Palliative Care, St. Paul's Hospital
John Fraser, Former Cabinet Minister and Speaker of the House; Chairman, Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council
Amanda Gibbs, Director of Audience Engagement, City of Vancouver Museum
Andrea Gillman, Metro Vancouver Homelessness Secretariat
Jim Godfrey, Director, 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Resort
Mark Goheen, Clinical Specialist, Fraser Health
Michael Gordon, Senior Central Area Planner, City of Vancouver
Virginia Greene, President & CEO, Business Council of BC
Beverly Grieve, Senior Planner, GVRD Policy & Planning Department
Mark Griggs, Manager, Planning & Development, Vancouver Fraser Port Authority
Mike Harcourt, Former Mayor of Vancouver; Former Premier of BC
Nancy Henderson, Executive Director, SPARC BC
Mark Holland, Manager, Sustainability Support Group, City of Vancouver
Ronda Howard, Senior Planner, City of Vancouver
WeiHsi Hu, SPARC BC
David Hughes, Geologist, Geological Survey of Canada-Calgary
Carole James, MLA and Leader of the Opposition, BC
Russ Jones, Assistant Auditor General of BC
Sadhu Johnston, Deputy City Manager, City of Vancouver
Harry Jongerden, Garden Director, VanDusen Botanical Garden
Tewanee Joseph, Executive Director, Four Host First Nations Secretariat
Devorah Kahn, Food Policy Coordinator, Vancouver Food Policy Council
Raymond Kan, Senior Regional Planner, Metro Vancouver
Geoff Karcher, Environmental Assessment Coordinator, Heritage Canada
Krisztina Kassay, Coordinator of Summer Spaces Program, City of Vancouver
Hugh Kellas, Department of Policy and Planning, GVRD
Patrick Kelly, Indian and Native Affairs Canada
Robert Kerr, Program Director, Cultural Olympiad VANOC
Jon Kingsbury, Mayor, City of Coquitlam
Racelle Kooy, Marketing Director, Aboriginal Tourism Association of BC
Brian Krieger, Director, 2010 Commerce Centre BC Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Secretariat
Marty Kulich, Program Director, VANOC
Jenny Kwan, MLA, Vancouver
Peter Ladner, Councillor, City of Vancouver
Tracey Lakeman, Tourism Richmond BC
Steven Leeming, Assistant Vice President, Partnership BC
Ross Long, Transportation Planning Economist, Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (Translink)
Raymond Louie, Technical Manager, Richmond Airport Vancouver Rapid Transit Project
Leslie MacDonald, Regional Manager, Ministry of Agriculture & Lands
James Mack, A/Head, Climate Action Secretariat
Donald MacPherson, Drug Policy Coordinator, City of Vancouver
Ann McAfee, Director of City Plans, City of Vancouver
Doug McCallum, Mayor, City of Surrey
Kevin McFarland, Parks Planner, Member Accessibility Task Force, Resort Municipality of Whistler
Ken Melamed, Mayor, Resort Municipality of Whistler
Deborah Meyers, Arts and Culture Analyst, Department of Canadian Heritage
Tamsin Mills, Climate Change Adaptation Planner, City of Vancouver
Amanda Mitchell, Greenest City Engagement Consultant, City of Vancouver
Leslie Mobbs, Director, Records & Archives, City of Vancouver
Jennie Moore, Division Manager, GVRD Strategic Initiatives
Richard Newirth, Acting Managing Director Cultural Services, City of Vancouver
Bryan Newson, Public Art Program Manager, Office of Cultural Affairs
H. Peter Oberlander, OC, Senior Ministerial Advisor, World Urban Forum
James O'Neill, Social Planner, City of Vancouver
Thomas Osdoba, Manager, Sustainability Group, City of Vancouver
Adam Ostry, Director General, PCO Cities Secretariat
Robert Paddon, Vice President Corporate and Public Affairs, Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (Translink)
Andrew Pask, Social Policy Analyst, City of Vancouver
Denise Phillipe, External Relations Project Manager, Metro Vancouver
Lyndsay Poaps, Communication Specialist, Metro Vancouver
Judge Steven Point, Commissioner with BC Treaty Commission
Richard Porges, Director, Tourism BC Research Services
Dave Porter, Former MLA, Yukon
Gordon Price, Former Vancouver City Councillor
David Ramslie, Senior Manager, Sustainability Programs Planner, City of Vancouver
Paulette Regan, Director of Research, Truth & Reconciliation Commission
Stephen Regan, Manager, Tourism Vancouver Destination Development
Andrea Reimer, Councillor, City of Vancouver
Mark Robbins, Ministry of Agriculture and Lands
Anne Roberts, Councillor, City of Vancouver
Doug Robinson, Project Facilitator, City of Vancouver
Peter Russell, Business Relationship Manager, City of Vancouver
Bruce Sampson, Vice President of Sustainability, BC Hydro
Dave Sands, Agricultural Land Reserve Protection and Enhancement
Jim Sands, SPARC BC
Phyllis Schwartz, Secondary Teacher Resources, Vancouver School Board
Jenniffer Sheel, Transportation Engineer, City of Vancouver
Mike Shiffer, Vice President, Planning, Translink
Barry Smith, Planner, Ministry of Agriculture & Lands
Ian Smith, Senior Planner, City of Vancouver
Pablo Sobrino, Executive Director, Department of Canadian Heritage Western Region
Terry Stanway, President, Association of Neighbourhood Houses of Greater Vancouver
Tim Stevenson, Councillor, City of Vancouver
Harold Steves, Chair, Metro Vancouver
Sam Sullivan, Mayor, City of Vancouver
Alice Sundberg, Consultant, Housing & Community Development Services
Kim Sutherland, Regional Agrologist, BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands
Karen Thomas, Ministry of Agriculture and Lands Resource Management Branch
Stuart Thomas, Terra Housing
Diane Thorne, Member Legislative Assembly, New Democractic Party of BC
Brent Toderian, Director of Planning, City of Vancouver
John Tylee, Director, Policy and Research, Vancouver Economic Development Office
Hayne Wai, MultiCulturalism BC
Tim Wake, Councillor, Resort Municipality of Whistler
John Watson, Former Advisor, Prime Minister’s Office
Jil Weaving, Director, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation Artist in Residence Program
Trish Webb, Director, Corporate Sustainability, Translink
Patricia Weir, Senior Policy Analyst, BC Nurses Union
Graham Whitmarsh, Associate Deputy Minister and Head Climate Action Secretariat, Government of BC
Sandra Wilking, Citizenship Judge
Bob Williams, Former Minister, Ministry of Resources
Baldwin Wong, Multicultural Social Planner, City of Vancouver
Ellen Woodsworth, Councillor, City of Vancouver
Tim Yeomans, Physician
Maria Zucht, General Manager, Whistler Housing Authority

Academic
Jackie Amsden, SFU
Robert S. Anderson, Professor, SFU School of Communication
Dr. Joanna Ashworth, Director, SFU Dialogue Programs
Hartley Banack, SFU Faculty of Education
Michael Barnholden, Professor, SFU
Lyn Bartram, Assistant Professor, SFU Interactive Arts & Technology
Alison Beale, Professor, SFU, School of Communication
Stephanie Bertels, Assistant Professor, SFU Business
Mark Bomford, Program Coordinator, Ctr. for Sustainable Food Systems, UBC
Art Bomke, Faculty of Land & Food Systems, UBC
Candice Le Roy, External Relations Director, Sustainable SFU
David Bogen, Vice-President Academic, Emily Carr University
Paul Cabaj, Life Project, SFU Local Food Group
Patrick Condon, Professor, UBC Landscape Architecture
Melanie Conn, Associate, SFU Centre for Sustainable Community
Jeff Corntassel, Acting Director, UVic School of Indigenous Governance
Dara Culhane, Professor, SFU Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Kate Dilworth, SFU Learning Strategies Group
Charles Dobson, Associate Professor, Emily Carr University of Art & Design
Nancy Duxbury, Executive Director, SFU CPROST
Brian Ellis, Professor, UBC Agroecology
Arthur Fallick, Director, Sustainable Urban Systems, Kwantlen Polytechnic
Wendy Fletcher, Principal & Dean, Vancouver School of Theology
Monique Fouquet, VP Academic, Emily Carr University of Art & Design
Larry Franks, Professor, SCARP, UBC School of Community & Regional Planning
Warren Gill, Vice-President, SFU University Relations
Rick Gruneau, Professor, SFU School of Communication
Marcia Guno, Acting Director, SFU First Nations Student Centre
Olena Hankivsky, Professor, SFU Department of Political Science
Michael Hayden, Prinicpal Investigator, Ctr. for Molecular Medicine, UBC
Michael Hayes, Associate Dean, SFU Faculty of Health Science
Clyde Hertzman, Director, UBC Human Early Learning Partnership
Meg Holden, Assistant Professor, SFU Urban Studies Program
Mark Jaccard, Professor, SFU School of Resource Management
Am Johal, Community Engagement Coordinator, SFU Woodward's Cultural Unit
Christine Jones, Senior Lecturer, SFU Humanities Department
Roberta Kremer, Sessional Instructor, UBC
Landon Mackenzie, Artist and Associate Professor in Visual Arts, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
Lorraine Malcoe, Associate Professor, SFU Faculty of Health Science
Brent Mansfield, CURA Community Liason, UBC Faculty of Land & Food Systems
Sallie McFague, Distinguished Theologian in Residence, Vancouver School of Theology
Chris Miewald, Associate, SFU Centre for Sustainable Development
Karyn Mitchell, Vice Principal, Mulgrave Senior School
Arne Mooers, Assistant Professor, SFU Biodiversity
Marina Morrow, Assistant Professor, SFU Faculty of Health Science
Kent Mullinix, Institute for Sustainable Horticulture, Kwantlen Polytechnic
John Munro, Director, SFU Urban Studies Program
Catherine Murray, Professor, SFU, School of Communication
Justin Novak, Associate Professor, Emily Carr University of Art & Design
Nancy Olewiler, Director, SFU Masters in Public Policy
Anthony Perl, Director, Post Carbon Institute, SFU Urban Studies
Gordon Price, Director, SFU City Program
Moura Quayle, Dean, UBC Agricultural Sciences
Dr. Bill Rees, Professor, UBC School of Community and Regional Planning
Ben Reeves, Assistant Professor, Emily Carr University of Art & Design
John Richards, Professor, SFU Master of Public Policy Program
Andrew Riseman, Associate Professor, Botanical Garden Ctr, UBC
John Robinson, Professor, UBC Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability
Chris Rogerson, Student Life Educator, SFU Student Development & Program Centre
Mark Roseland, Director, Ctr for Sustainable Community Development, SFU
Vjeko Sager, Sessional Faculty, Emily Carr University
Amyn Sajoo, SFU Centre for Comparative Studies of Muslim Societies and Cultures
Eesmyal Santos-Brault, Partner, Recollective
Val Schaefer, Executive Director, Douglas College Centre for Environmental Studies and Urban Ecology
Rosa Sevy, Post Doctoral Fellow, Iona-Pacific Inter-religious Centre
Lisa Sterling, Special Advisor on Aboriginal Affairs, SFU VP Academic Office
Kennedy Stewart, Professor, SFU Masters of Public Policy
Madeleine Dion Stout, Independent Cree Scholar
Dr. Ann Svendsen, SFU Innovation in Management, Collaborative Learning & Innovation Centre for Sustainable Community Development
Shauna Sylvester, Fellow, SFU Canada's World, SFU Carbon Talks
Daniel Vokey, Faculty, UBC Department of Educational Studies
John Volpe, Assistant Professor, UVic Environmental Studies
Michael Westlake, Actiing Co-ordinator/C-CIARN Program Officer, Yukon College Northern Climate Exchange
Rob Woodbury, Director, Art & Design Practice, Graphics, Animation & New Media Canada, SFU Interactive Arts & Technology
Rita Wong, Assistant Professor, Emily Carr University Critical and Cultural Studies
Yosef Wosk, SFU Interdisciplinary Studies
Eldon Yellowhorn, SFU First Nations Studies
Tim Yeomans, Clinical Assistant Professor, Port McNeil Medical Clinic Department of Family Practices

Business/Industry
Michael Abelman, Foxglove Farm
Jason Bak, Chief Executive Officer, Finavera Renewables
Brent Bazinet, RBC Commercial Mortgages
Lance Berelowitz, Principal, Urban Forum Associates
Larry Blain, CEO, Partnerships British Columbia
Alex Boston, Holland Barrs Planning Group Inc.
Bill Bourgeois, Vice-President, Lignum Ltd
Mark Brand, Save on Meats
Ian Chisholm, Partner, The Roy Group
Jennifer Coulson, Manager of Sustainability, Ethical Funds Company
Brian Day, MD, Cambie Surgery Centre
Christina De Haas, Environment Fund Coordinator, Mountain Equipment Cooperative
Janine De La Salle, HB Lanarc
Jack Ebbels, Consultant, Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP
Casey Edge, Executive Officer, Canadian Home Builders Association
Andrew Feldmar, Psychotherapist
Bonnie Fenton, BL Fenton Consulting
Chris Fordham, Manager, Strategy & Regional Integration, Suncor Energy Inc.
Elmer Friesen, President, International Biorecovery Corporation
Janine Fuller, Manager, Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium
Fred Ghatala, Assistant Director of Plant Operations and Research, Canadian Bioenergy Corporation
Scott Gibney, Safeway Public Affairs
Jim Green, Jim Green & Associates
Brent Harley, President, Brent Harley & Associates
Chashma Heinze
David Helliwell, Co-Founder, Pulse Energy
Gregory Henriquez, Managing Partner, Henriquez Partners Architects
Lorne Hepworth, President, CropLife Canada
Jeff Herold, Development Consultant, Herold Development Services
Sean Hodgins, President, Century Group
Mark Holland, Principal, Holland Barrs Planning Group
Wendy Holm, Consulting Agrologist
Judith Scott Kardosh, Marion Scott Gallery
Paul Kariya, Executive Director, Independent Power Producers Association
Jacques Khouri, President & CEO, VanCity Enterprise
David Labistour, CEO, Mountain Equipment Co-op
Ilana Labow, Co-founder, Projects Developer, Farmer, Fresh Roots Urban Farm
Peter Ladner, Fellow, SFU HomesNow
Bob Laurie, Finning Real Estate Manager, CB Richard Ellis
Robert Lemon, Principal, Robert G. Lemon Architecture & Preservation
David LePage, Program Manager, Vancity Enterprising Non-Profits Program
Andre LaRiviere, Executive Director, Green Table Network
Julia Levy, Executive Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, QLT Inc.
Michael Leung, Landlord
Andrew Loh, Lawyer and Partner
Felipe Lozano
Donald Luxton, Founding Director, Heritage Vancouver Society; President, Canadian Art Deco Society; Donald Luxton and Associates
Rod MacLean, Client Service Coordinator, Vancouver Convention Centre
Michael Margolic, President, Michael Margolick and Associates
Graham McGarva, Principal, VIA Architecture
Josh Michnik, Shop Owner
Jim Moodie, Principal, Moodie Consultants
Cornelia Oberlander, Landscape Architect
Beverley O'Neil, Principal, O'Neil Marketing and Communications
Parminder Parhar, Owner, Renaissance Coffee
Eric Pateman, President & Founder, Edible BC
Tom Rand, Director, VCi Green Funds
Bob Ransford, Counterpoint Communications Inc.
Judith Reeve, Landscape Architect; Urban and Environmental Designer, Toby, Russell, Buckwell and Partners Architects; Judith Reeve Consultant
Dave Rivers, Olympic Consultant, Bell Canada
Ian Roberts, President, Positive Aquaculture Awareness
Noel Roddick, Roddick Feed and Farm Supply
Val Roddick, former MLA and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture
Ronaye Matthew, Co-Housing Development Consultant
Jamie Ross, Manager, Deloitte & Touche EHS & Sustainability Service/Enterprise Risk
Eesmyal Santos-Brault, Partner, Recollective
Karl Siegler, President, TalonBooks
Glenn Sigurdson, Q.C., Mediator, CSE Group
James Smerdon, Director, Retail and Strategic Planning, Colliers International
Susan & Harvie Snow, Snow Farms
Joel Solomon, Chairman and Co-Founder, Renewal2
Esther Speck, Manager of Sustainability and Community, Mountain Equipment Co-op
Tammy Stephen, Marketing Coordinator, Omicron
Art Sterritt, Coastal First Nations Turning Point Initiative
Paul Sullivan, President and Director, Sullivan Media
Linda Swain, General Manager, Cypress Mountain
Lourette Swanepoel, Projects Manager Sustainable Communities, The Sheltair Group Resource Consultants Inc.
Denise Taschereau, Action Canada Fellow/Partner, Fairware
Bing Thom, Principal, Bing Thom Architects
Aubrey Tingle, President and CEO, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
Ursula Twiss, Discovery Organics
Vince Verlaan, Manager of Community Engagement & Facilitation, HB Lanarc Consultants
Douglas Wark, Vice-President, VANPAC Vancouver Pacific Development Corp
Bob Williams, Chairman of the Board, VanCity Capital Corporation
Terry-Lynn Williams, White Raven Law Corporation
David Wilson, Operations Manager, Choices Markets
Milton Wong, Former Chancellor of SFU; Chair, HSBC Asset Management Canada
Darrell Zbeetnoff, Agro-Environmental Consultant

The Arts
Amir Alibhai, Arts Programmer, Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre
Hari Alluri, Artist
Valerie Arntzen, Artist and Executive Director, East Side Cultural Crawl
Daina Augaitis, Vancouver Art Gallery
Bob Baker, Spokesperson for Eagle Song Dance Group, Squamish Nation
Rita Beiks, Artist
Mary Bissell, Director, Screenwriter, Producer
Hank Bull, Interdisciplinary Artist & Curator, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Betsy Carson, Documentary Producer, Canada Wild Productions
Camyar Chai, Executive Director, LOVE BC
Brad Chan, Poet Laureate Vancouver 2009-2011
Nadia Chaney, Artist
Henry Charles, Elder, Musqueam Tribe
Lincoln Clarkes, Heroine's Photographer
Barb Clausen, Artistic Director, New Performance Works
Vince Collison, Vancouver Art Gallery
Daniel Conrad, Filmmaker
Mike Dangeli, Carver, Cultural Director, Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society
Robert Davidson, Haida Artist
David Diamond, Artistic Director, Headlines Theatre
Patti Fraser, Script and Production Advisor, Pacific Cinematheque
Arlene Goldbard, Writer
George Harris, Director, Gulf Islands Film and Television School
Jabbar Al Janabi, Artist
Margo Kane, Founder , Full Circle First Nations Performance
Simon Levin, Interdisciplinary Artist
Glynis Leyshon, Artistic Director, Vancouver Playhouse
Gail Lotenberg, Dancer, Choreographer, Founding Director of LINK Foundation
Duncan Low, Executive Director, VECC
Judith Marcuse, Artistic Producer, Judith Marcuse Projects
Terry Miller, Community Development Worker & Visual Artist
Barrie Mowatt, President & Owner, Buschlen Mowatt Galleries
Aaron Nelson-Moody, Artist
Wendy Newman, Founder & Executive Director, ArtStarts in Schools
Suzanne Northcott, Artist
Irwin Oostindie, Executive Director, W2: Community Media Arts
Stuart Poyntz, Senior Education Consultant, Pacific Cinematheque
Susanna Reinhart, Director of Board & Troupe Member, Vancouver Cantonese Opera
Vanessa Richards, Artist
Velcrow Ripper, Filmmaker
Tom Sandborn, Writer & Activist
Naomi Steinberg, Storyteller
Sean Taylor, Director of Education, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Richard Tetrault, Community Artist, Paneficio Studio
Andy Toth, Actor, Director, Producer
Bramwell Tovey, Music Director, Vancouver Symphony
Savannah Walling, Artistic Director, Vancouver Moving Theatre
Adrienne Wong, Playwright & Theatre Artist
Paul Wong, Videographer
James Wright, General Director, Vancouver Opera
Max Wyman, Head of the Canadian High Commission, UNESCO

Media/Writers/Journalists
David Beers, Editor in Chief, The Tyee
Rebecca Bollwitt, Blogger, Miss604
Daphne Bramham, Columnist, The Vancouver Sun
Paula Brook, Columnist, The Vancouver Sun
Wayde Compton, Sessional Instructor, SFU
Lori Culbert, Columnist, Vancouver Sun
Charles Demers
Allen Garr, Author, Bee Keeper
Terry Glavin, Author & Journalist
Alden Habacon, Manager of Diversity Initiatives, CBC TV
Rae Hull, Senior Director, CBC Network Programming
Stephen Hume, Author & Columnist , The Vancouver Sun
Pico Iyer, Author
Oliver Kellhammer, Land Artist, Permaculture Teacher, Activist
Michael Kluckner, Artist & Writer
Bob Kronbauer, Managing Editor/Executive Director, Vancouver is Awesome
James MacKinnon, Journalist and Author, 100 Mile Diet Society
Gabor Mate, MD, Author
Peter McKnight, Vancouver Sun
Peter Morin, Arts Director, Redwire Native Youth Media
Andrew Nikiforuk, Author
Monte Paulson, Editor, The Tyee
Chris Rose, Editor, The Vancouver Sun
Eve Savory, Documentary Reporter, CBC Television
Charlie Smith, Editor, Georgia Straight
Douglas Todd, Religion & Ethics Columnist, The Vancouver Sun
Jowi Taylor, Host, CBC Radio Global Village
Nettie Wild, Canada Wild Productions

Faculty

Guest Faculty / Research Associates

Guests

Not for Profit / Community-based

Government: Municipal, Provincial, Federal, Crown Corporation

Academic

Business/Industry

The Arts

Media/Writers/Journalists

What is the Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue?