Andrea Reimer is a long-time community organizer. She was first elected to the Vancouver School Board in 2002 and subsequently to three terms on Vancouver City Council, where she led the Greenest City initiative and the City’s commitment to 100% renewable energy. She has held key regional and national green policy leadership roles and in 2018 was awarded a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard in recognition of this leadership. Currently she runs her own consultancy - Tawâw Strategies - teaches power literacy, and serves on several boards and public sector advisory bodies including TransLink, Metro Vancouver’s Independent Engagement and Consultation Panel and BC’s Climate Solutions Council.

Tesicca Truong is an award-winning community, climate change policy strategist and advocate. She co-founded CityHive, a non-profit that transforms the way that young people are involved in decision-making in their cities, and she co-chaired the inaugural Vancouver School Board Sustainability Conference. She has also served on Vancouver Mayor’s Engaged City Task Force, Simon Fraser University Senate, and B.C.’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Advisory Council. Tesicca has been awarded Vancouver’s Greenest City Leadership Award and SFU President’s Leadership in Sustainability Award. She is currently pursuing a triple Masters in Urban Climate and Sustainability in four countries.

Andrew Humphries is a former science teacher and secondary school administrator (School District 39 - Vancouver). He is passionate about teaching sustainability and has done so in the classroom and during hundreds of field study days, through the development of a Global Sustainability course, working with staff teams, and international collaborations. Andrew continues to support the work being done by many individuals and organizations within the fields of global sustainability and citizenship education. He has a special interest in reducing barriers to sustainability education for K – 12 classroom teachers.

Sara Florence Davidson (sgaan jaadgu san glans) is a Haida/Settler Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on Indigenous literacies, pedagogies, storytelling, and research methodologies. With her father, Robert Davidson, she is the co-author of Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning through Ceremony and the Sk’ad’a Stories, a picture book series which is based on family stories and highlights Indigenous pedagogies and intergenerational learning. Before joining SFU, Sara worked in Teacher Education at the University of the Fraser Valley and UBC and in the K-12 system in Whitehorse and Haida Gwaii schools.

Doug Karrow has been active in the field of environmental and sustainability education throughout his career for 37 years, as a former elementary school teacher, and post-secondary educator. He teaches in Teacher Education and Graduate Education Programs. Research interests focus on environmental and sustainability education teacher education, philosophy, theory, and practice. He is the former inaugurating co-chair for the Environmental and Sustainability Education in Teacher Education Standing Committee of EECOM and remains a current member of the board.

Alisa is a teacher educator in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, where she is the Cohort Coordinator of the Education for Sustainability teacher education cohort. Alisa Paul is working on her PhD in Learning Environments. She completed her M.Ed in 2019 at SFU in Ecological Education and worked in teacher education at SFU. , primarily with the SEEDS and French Modules. Her passion for community building, relationality and resiliency form part of her personal pedagogy.

Brent teaches Edible Education as a specialist teacher at Lord Roberts Elementary in Vancouver. He is the co-founder of LunchLAB, an educational lunch program that is a partnership between Growing Chefs and the Vancouver School Board, which provides students with hands-on, cross-curricular learning around food literacy and a delicious lunch. Through the Coalition for Healthy School Food, Brent works with many others from BC and across Canada to advocate for public investment in school food programs, and he is excited about collaborating with others to develop networks among educators and school food champions to ensure programs are equitable, nourishing, engaging and connected to place.

Alana Petrella is a B.C.–certified teacher and Senior Program Developer for School Food Literacy with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Working with Feed BC and Feeding Futures, she helps create hands-on experiences for K-12 students to learn about local food and explore careers in agriculture and food processing, while supporting teachers to bring local food literacy into the classroom. Passionate about growing, cooking, and sharing food, Alana loves helping young people connect with where their food comes from—sparking curiosity, building skills, and inspiring a more sustainable food future for B.C.

Eric Schofield (he/him) is a white settler living on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking Songhees and Esquimalt nations with his partner and two daughters. He teaches culinary arts at Stelly's Secondary on W̱SÁNEĆ territory, where he integrates food skills with sustainability, food security, Indigenous food sovereignty, and systems thinking. Currently completing a thesis at Lakehead University on food skilling and climate education, Eric also collaborates through the Salish Sea Environmental Educators PSA to advance climate education and food literacy in schools. Beyond teaching, he consults and speaks on critical food literacy and climate justice, creating safe, action-based learning spaces for youth. He enjoys paddling, biking farm roads, and hiking rainforest trails with his dog, Maple.

Bill Cohen is from the Okanagan Nation with extensive kinship ties throughout BC and Washington. He specializes in the areas of Indigenous knowledge, research, education, and transforming pedagogy. For over twenty-five years, he has engaged in community-driven, transforming projects, as parent, volunteer, advisor, facilitator, and director. He is an educator, artist, story-teller and author. The focus of Bill’s continuing research is to identify, understand and theorize the transforming potential of Indigenous and Okanagan knowledge and pedagogy through organic language and cultural knowledge revitalization. As an educator, he has organized numerous community, school, arts, language, literacy and numeracy projects involving elders, fluent speakers, parents and children.

Dr. Shannon Leddy is a card-carrying member of the Métis Nation of BC and an associate professor of art education at the University of British Columbia, whose practice focuses on using transformative arts- and land-based pedagogies in decolonizing and Indigenizing teacher education. Before arriving at UBC, Shannon taught high school Art, Social Studies, and English. She is the Co-Chair of the Institute for Environmental Learning, and co-author of the book, Teaching where you are: weaving slow and Indigenous pedagogies. She is also a mother and a Nehiyawin/Cree language learner as well as a Danish language learner.

Brittney Townrow is a proud Heiltsuk artist, educator, and PhD student whose work centers Indigenous Education, land-based learning, and arts-based approaches. She is the Indigenous Education Coordinator at WPGA, Co-Lead of the ISABC Indigenous Education Working Group, and Adjunct Professor at UBC. Brittney draws on her experience as a Fellow for Infusing Climate Education into the BC Curriculum and has led land-based workshops with educators across Canada. With a background in Fine Arts and Early Years Education, she weaves together Traditional Ecological Knowledge, storywork, and Two-Eyed Seeing to help educators build meaningful relationships with land, community, and curriculum.

Sam is the Green Workforce Development Manager at Youth Climate Corps BC (YCCBC), leading the creation of a career development framework that helps youth across the province build meaningful pathways in the green economy. In this role, Sam designs workshops and resources, builds partnerships with employers and training providers, and works closely with YCCBC’s regional teams to integrate career learning into every stage of the program including alumni and youth engagement strategies to ensure a lasting impact. Sam brings frontline experience and management expertise to build systems that prepare the next generation of climate leaders, equipping young people with the skills, confidence and networks they need to thrive in the green economy while supporting community resilience across BC.

Ryan Barfoot is the Sustainability Coordinator for qathet School District in Powell River, British Columbia, and a recognized leader in environmental education. Part of Ryans life work is integrating sustainability, outdoor education, and ecological learning into K–12 curricula and school operations. He was instrumental in developing a provincial Green Careers course, providing an integrative framework for career development that emphasizes environmental and social impact in the emerging Green Economy. Ryan serves as Chair of the Outdoor Council of Canada and as a Director at Large for the Classrooms to Communities Society of BC, supporting transformative, community-connected learning initiatives and advancing sustainability education across the province.

Meriko Kubota is the Senior Policy Lead in Healthy Public Policy at Vancouver Coastal Health, serving the qathet and Central Coast regions. She works at the intersection of health, equity, and systems change, shaping policies that foster healthier and more equitable communities. Her work focuses on advancing population health through evidence-informed, equity-driven policy development and advocacy at local, regional, and provincial levels. Previously, Meriko was the Regional Social Planner for the qathet region. She has also led community partnerships, investments, and programming with organizations including MEC (then Mountain Equipment Co-op), TELUS, and the Vancouver Foundation. Meriko has served on various boards, including Greenpeace Canada, and currently sits on the board of the qathet Division of Family Practice. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time outdoors with her two young children.

Ceren is a grade 5/6 teacher at South Canoe Outdoor Learning School in Salmon Arm, BC. He co-founded this public program, which engages students in meaningful outdoor learning year-round. As the chair of the SD83 Environmental Advisory Group, he supports climate action education, operational retrofits, and school-based green teams. Last year, he helped develop a place-based district-wide Indigenous Day of Learning that brought nearly 1,200 staff onto the land. Ceren is vice-chair of the Outdoor Council of Canada and a director with the Shuswap Outdoor Learning Foundation. In outdoor spaces, he enjoys storytelling and creating experiences for his students that evoke awe and wonder.

Dr. Megan Zeni is a teacher consultant with three decades of professional K-7 teaching experience. Megan supports school districts, non-profit organizations, university faculty, teacher education programs, funding agencies, and education specific think tanks interested in building capacity for effective and sustainable implementation of risky play, school gardens, and outdoor classrooms in elementary schools. Learn more and follow her work at meganzeni.com

Elise Pearson is an environmental educator and Outdoor Education teacher at Maple Grove Elementary on the unceded territory of the Musqueam people (Vancouver, BC), where she leads students in Grades 4–7 in ecological restoration and native plant stewardship along the Arbutus Greenway. She holds a Master’s in Ecological Education from Simon Fraser University and is the 2025 recipient of the Edward Burtynsky Award for Teaching Excellence in Environmental Education. Elise’s work blends science, art, and Indigenous ways of knowing to foster ecological literacy, stewardship, and a deep love for both plants and place.