Ensouling Our Schools: A Universally Designed Framework for Mental Health, Well-Being, and Reconciliation

About Jennifer Katz

Jennifer Katz PhD taught for 16 years in diverse classrooms from K to 12 including special education and inclusive classrooms in Winnipeg and Vancouver. She has also served as a resource teacher and counsellor. Her work as an advocate of inclusive education has spanned several countries provinces and territories and multiple audiences including students parents teachers educational leaders and curriculum and policy development ministries. Dr. Katz received the MCEC Outstanding Achievement Award for Leadership 2016. She now serves as an Assistant Professor of Inclusive Education at the University of British Columbia. Kevin Lamoureux currently serves as the Education Lead for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation while on leave from the position of Associate Vice-President Indigenous Affairs at the University of Winnipeg. Lamoureux has served as faculty member at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba and is a well-known national public speaker. He has served as co-chair for the Manitoba Provincial Task Force on Educational Outcomes for Children in Care scholar-in residence for several school divisions and education consultant throughout Manitoba and across Canada.