Who We Are
Jenna Woodrow (she/her) is current Chair of the TRUFA Equity Committee.
Her interests include epistemic and moral justice and relational accounts of personhood, justification, and responsibility. She focuses on feminist and Indigenous epistemologies, evolutionary metaethics, implicit bias and moral luck, and embodiment, oppression, and agency.
Melba D’Souza (she/her) is interested in developing an inquiry-based methodology and community participatory action in social and health behaviors towards inter-linking socio-environmental and health care outcomes.
Her program of research is focused on health promotion and resilience for multi-cultural, diverse, and vulnerable populations using the social determinants of health and an equity lens.
Christie Fraser (she/her/hers) has worked in education for more than 20 years. Currently, she is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at TRU where she supports the development of inclusive educators in the Bachelor of Education program. Her teaching areas include: educational psychology; curriculum, instruction, and assessment; and literacy research and practice. Considerations for how to improve equity in education is a cornerstone of Christie’s teaching philosophy, and something she thinks about every day in her professional and personal life. These days she is thinking about acknowledging her privilege, the use of inclusive language inside and outside of the classroom, Indigenizing her teaching practice, and how to be a great ally. Christie welcomes great conversations about these topics and more! Feel free to contact her at chfraser@tru.ca.
Matthew Stranach, Ed.D (he/him) is Coordinator, Educational Technologies with TRU’s Learning Technology and Innovations group. An educator for more than 15 years, his academic and professional interests include the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model, faculty development, and teaching and learning in face-to-face, blended, and fully online modalities. He has helped design and develop the TRUFA Equity Good Practices website.