2022 Symposium on Teaching and Learning

Chantal Gibson is an award-winning writer-artist-educator living on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. Recipient of the 2021 3M National Teaching Fellowship and the 2016 SFU Excellence in Teaching Award, Chantal has been a member of the SFU community since 2002. She teaches written and visual communication courses in the School of Interactive Art & Technology (SIAT).

Working in the overlap between literary and visual art, her work confronts colonialism head on, imagining the BIPOC voices silenced in the spaces and omissions left by cultural and institutional erasure. Her visual art has been exhibited at the ROM, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Open Space Victoria, the MacKenzie Art Gallery, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Vancouver Museum of Anthropology, and the Senate of Canada.

Her debut book of poetry, How She Read (Caitlin Press, 2019) explores the representation of Black women in Canadian history, art, literature. It won the 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the 2020 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her follow-up collection, with/holding (Caitlin Press, 2021) brings a critical lens to the representation and reproduction of Blackness across digital media.

Website: chantalgibson.com

Paola Ardiles (she/her) winner of the 2022 West Coast Teaching Excellence Award (BC Teaching and Learning Council) is a practitioner scholar focusing on building innovative, collaborative, and inter-sectoral approaches in health promotion policy, practice, research and education. Paola’s passion is to create partnerships and facilitate dialogue in order to foster the development of practical and creative upstream solutions to tackle complex public health challenges.

Since 2015, Ardiles has been developing and teaching participatory and community-based experiential courses (HSC 855: Health Promotion in Practice; HSC 449-Community and Health Service; HSC 495: Applied Health Science Project; HSC 897: MPH Capstone) including the co-design of the Health Change Lab, in collaboration with SFU RADIUS and the Beedie School of Business, City of Surrey, Fraser Health and many community-based organizations.
In 2021, Ardiles was recognized as a long-standing faculty champion for the SFU Healthy Campus, supporting the creation of an inclusive and safe learning environment that promotes student and community wellbeing. Recently in her role as the Faculty Teaching Fellow, Paola co-led various research projects to strengthen community-engaged learning and teaching at SFU, as well as the co-development of an anti-racism capacity building initiative for faculty and staff. Currently, Ardiles is an Associate with the SFU’s Wosk Centre for Dialogue and the Co-chair of Participedia Teaching Training & Mentoring Committee, a global network focused on public participation & democratic innovations.