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SHANNON BERCH LAUREL BORISENKO TERRY ANN CARTER IAN CHAN
Shannon Berch works on forest soil conservation, soil biology, and Non- Timber Forest Products (NTFPs), especially edible mycorrhizal mushrooms and the integration
of the management of important harvested forest mushrooms, such as the pine mushroom, chanterelles and many others, into forest management. Shannon is a founding member of the Sotu Vancouver Island Mycological Society and also a member of the Truf e Association of BC, which is dedicated to the development of a Périgord Black Truf e farm sector in the province.
Laurel Borisenko is a practitioner, researcher, and a visual artist. For the past 15 years she has worked in the eld of humanitarian aid and emergency relief, including peace- building. Much of her international work has been based in sub-Saharan Africa with international NGOs as well as secondments to UNHCR and UNICEF. She is currently completing a PhD in Con ict Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and
has conducted research in Kenya, Zimbabwe, and northern Uganda.
Terry Ann Carter is a poet, book maker, and collage artist. The author of Lighting the Global Lantern: A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Haiku and Related Literary Forms, she has taught in China, Singapore, Malaysia, Bahamas, Canada, and the U.S.,
and is an activist for the Tabitha Foundation (Cambodia). Her nine collections of poetry include haiku and longer forms. Terry Ann studied poetry at the Jack Kerouac School
of Disembodied Poetics, Colorado, and is President of Haiku Canada. terryanncarter.ca
Ian Chan, MBA, PEng, is co- founder and Senior Management Consultant of Strategic Implementation Inc., offering business and life coaching, consulting, contracting and courses. Ian has held senior management positions at IBM Canada, Amdahl, Data General, Cognos and Information Builders, and has taught at BCIT, University of Phoenix, Kwantlen Polytechnic, Meritus University, and the Self Employment and Entrepreneur Development Society. siinc.ca
Geoffrey Bird, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at RRU. His research focused on the relationship between remembrance and tourism to battle elds. Geoff has 25 years of tourism experience, both teaching and working in various capacities, living and working in Southeast Asia, Europe and North America in various sustainable tourism initiatives.
His present research interests include community-based tourism development, sustainable tourism, identity and tourism, heritage and cultural tourism.
Coreen Boucher is a freelance
editor who owns and operates Lucent Edits. She specializes in editing non ction books, graduate papers, theses, and dissertations, and specializes in the APA style. For seven years, she taught ESL and tutored homeschoolers and currently works as a writing coach as part of her business.
Fiona Hamersley Chambers
attributes her life-long interest
in human-plant relationships
to her early experience with farms in the UK countryside and to her formative years spent in nature and with First Nations communities
at the old Dididaht village of Clo- oose (now Paci c Rim National Park Reserve). She prefers being outdoors, camping, playing with her two boys, foraging for wild foods, working as a naturalist, or teaching ethnobotany courses at the UVic Bam eld Marine Sciences Centre, and Paci c Rim College.
Dale Christenson, PhD, is the founder and president of the Project Management Centre of Excellence Inc. He is a Certi ed Management Consultant (CMC) and Project Management Professional (PMP) specializing in project management consulting and training. He combines an extensive academic background with real-world expertise in the areas of program and portfolio management, organizational development, change management and critical project success factors. He’s held project management leadership and Executive positions in the public and private sectors.
GEOFFREY BIRD
COREEN BOUCHER FIONA HAMERSLEY CHAMBERS DALE CHRISTENSON
FACILITATORS