Tannis Calder is a practicing teacher and has an MEd from SFU in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Learning for Understanding through Culturally-Inclusive Imaginative Development (LUCID). Her most recent interests have involved looking at how mathematics can be taught through an imaginative lens from an Indigenous, place-based perspective. Tannis is currently working as a Learning Coordinator teacher in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith Public Schools in . Prior to her work in Nanaimo, Tannis taught in Prince Rupert, Bc and has also worked as a Curriculum Developer and Research Assistant with Simon Fraser University as part of the Imaginative Education Research Group (IERG) and LUCID.