Nancy Taber is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University. Her teaching and research extend from her experiences serving in the Canadian military as a Sea King helicopter air navigator. Gillian L. Fournier is a Drama and English educator in southwestern Ontario. She recently graduated from the Masters of Education program at Brock University. For her ... Read morework with Drama as Social Intervention and cyberbullying, Gillian received the Jack M. Miller Excellence in Research Award. Since 2004, she has been writing plays that engage youth in DSI, addressing issues from cyberbullying to gender-based violence. As an educator and a researcher, she hopes to contribute to knowledge production such that more proactive measures can be taken to address social issues impacting young people. Cindy Hanson is an educator interested in participatory, intersectional, and transformative forms of learning that have local and global applications. Her transnational activism in gender equality was the subject of her doctoral work at University of British Columbia. Prior to working in Adult Education at the University of Regina, she held international development consultancies in 15 countries implementing training for gender equality; this included work in Nepal and Ethiopia during times of conflict. Laura Lane is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Education at Brock University. She has completed a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature and a Master of Education in socio-cultural contexts of Education at Brock University. Her research interests include forms of capital and privileged culture in university institutions; gender discourses in popular and digital media; educational possibilities of social media; technology in early years classrooms; and, discussion groups as sites for gender critique. Her research scope ranges from a variety of educational contexts from the early years to adult education. Laura is also a practicing teacher with the Niagara Catholic District School Board and is certified to teach English and Geography at the high school level. She also teaches undergraduate courses with Brock University's Faculty of Education. Jamie Magnusson is an Associate Professor of Adult Education and Community Development at OISE, University of Toronto. Her activism and scholarship on precarity and dispossession examine militarized financialization in terms of urban development and social justice themes, with particular attention to women, youth, and lgbtq communities. Recent publications include Precarious Learning and Labour in Financialized Times (Brock Journal of Education, 2013), Biosurveillance as a Terrain of Innovation in an Era of Monopoly Finance Capital (Policy Futures in Education, 2013), and co-authored with Elisabeth Abergel, The Art of (Bio)Surveillance: Bioart and the Financialization of Living Systems, Topia (Special Issue on The Financialized Imagination, 2014). Robert C. Mizzi is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba. His current research interests largely focus on two areas: LGBTQ educators and educators who cross borders to work in foreign contexts. Robert examines the lives of these groups of educators in both K-12 and adult learning contexts. He has published over 35 chapters, articles and reviews in journals and books, such as the Journal of Homosexuality and Journal of Peace Education. He has also published three books that focus on educator and social development, including the edited book Breaking Free: Sexual Diversity and Change in Emerging Nations (QPI Publications/Lambda Foundation). Robert is a Research Associate for the Arthur Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice (University of Manitoba) and Perspectives Editor (Adult Education) for the journal New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development. For more information on Robert's background, please visit www.robertmizzi.com. Shahrzad Mojab, Professor of Adult Education and Women's Studies at the University of Toronto, is an academic-activist, specializing on educational policy studies; gender, state, migration and diaspora; women, war, violence and learning; Marxist-feminism and anti-racism pedagogy. She co-edited with Sara Carpenter Educating from Marx: Race, Gender and Learning (2012); edited Women, War, Violence, and Learning (2010); co-edited with Nahla Abdo Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges (2004) and with Himani Bannerji and Judith Whitehead Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism (2001). She has been the guest editor of the special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Journal, on Gender and Empire (Summer 2010) and Dissent: The Politics and Poetics of Women's Resistance (2012); International Journal of Lifelong Education, on women, war and learning; and Resources for Feminist Research, on war and militarization. Show Less