I’ve been in and around Education my entire life. First as a student, navigating elementary school in Canada and high school in the US. Then returning to Canada for University – too young to know what the hell I was doing and what I wanted to be. In my first year of university I contemplated astrophysics, women’s studies, linguistics, and finally settled on Computer Science. Not because I loved Computer Science, but because it was fun. My dad was a developer. It fit like it fit more than anything else.

When I completed my undergrad, I knew I wanted to keep studying. So I went abroad to studying Computational Linguistics. And I hated it. I ended up transferring in the first semester to Social Anthropology. The department was excited because they thought I would study digital communities and techno culture. Which I should have, but I was so exhausted by the program that I left that I studied neolithic and viking landscapes in the Orkney Islands. Big rebellious shift.

And then I was done learning for a while and became a teacher. I obtained my CELTA in Spain, returned to Canada to teach English for Academic Purposes (EAP) as a supply teacher, then abroad to South Korea for 2 years to teach Elementary school English. Upon returning to Canada, I ended up back in EAP and led the…