With a background in experiential land-based and environmental learning, Jacquie is passionate about enabling transformative educational experiences that not only deepen our understanding of the world, but more importantly, of our places within it. She is committed to supporting students to act as social and environmental agents of change beyond the classroom by fostering spaces and dialogue that allow individuals to lean into the unknown, and tap into their own sense of intrinsic capacity and resilience through introspection and creativity. She has worked with SFU’s Institute for Environmental Learning and the Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association to develop their environmental education pedagogy and community-engaged research programs, and was once a forest school teacher. She is now a workshop facilitator on Community Engaged Learning (CEL) topics and leads social impact funding programs with the UBC Centre for Community Engaged Learning. She holds a Master's in Land and Water Systems, and a BSc. in Natural Resources Conservation from UBC. She acknowledges and is grateful to live, work and play on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.