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A white woman with her hair (a mix of natural reddish brown with a significant sprinkling of white-grey) tied back, large purple-framed glasses, and an awkward smile. She is wearing a black shirt with a light green cardigan on top and a Goddess Spiral necklace.

Dani Dilkes

Co-facilitator, Critical Pedagogy & Social Justice, Guest Facilitator or Speaker, Open Education and Digital Literacies

Dani Dilkes, MEd, MSc (she/her) is a PhD candidate, a sessional instructor and an educational developer simultaneously at multiple institutions across Canada. Her studies, teaching and curriculum design work all center inclusive design practices. She understands understand exclusion as the result of social, physical, and technological design and believes that through deliberate redesign of educational spaces and practices, higher education can be more inclusive. Other key interests of hers include open pedagogy and alternative assessment. When she’s not thinking about how to make higher education better, she is cycling, being controlled by cats, or making a mess in the garden.

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