Co-organizer

Amanda (PhD) is a Canada Research Chair in Community-Engaged Research and Professor in the Faculty of Education at Vancouver Island University. Born in Los Angeles and having grown up in Amsterdam, she embraces learning languages and creating art as cultural advocacy. Her research focuses on community-led public art projects involving languages, literacies and participatory arts-based methodologies. Amanda has published about this shared passion widely and is the founding Director of the arc: Art Research Community Institute that works together with many communities across Vancouver Island and beyond using the arts as a form of bridging communities, truth-telling and language reawakening.