KELLY GALLAGHER-MACKAY is a lawyer, researcher and education
activist. She is an assistant professor of Law and Society at
Wilfrid Laurier University, where she researches issues of equity
in education and children’s services. Before joining the faculty
she was Research Director at the non-profit group People for
Education, where her research focuses on broad measures of school
success as a means of evaluating what truly matters in schools. She
has a PhD in Educational Policy from the Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education, and was the first Northern Director of a
fully accredited law school for Inuit students in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
She has two children in the public school system in Toronto.
NANCY STEINHAUER is an educational leader with over twenty years of
experience, ranging from Canada’s top private schools to diverse,
inner city schools. In 2012, Nancy Steinhauer was the recipient of
Canada’s Outstanding Principals Award by The Learning Partnership
and the Stand Up for Kids Award by the four Children’s Aid
Societies of Toronto. After spending two years working for the
Ontario Ministry of Education as a Student Achievement Officer,
Nancy recently took the helm as principal at The Mabin School, one
of Canada’s first Ashoka Changemaker Schools.
Shortlisted for the 2017/18 Donner Prize
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environmental and economic challenges." —Annie Kidder, Executive
Director, People for Education
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