Yi Chien Jade Ho 何宜謙 (she/they) is currently an Education PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University. In her time as a grad student at SFU, Jade has been a community-based researcher at the Environmental School Project, which is a public outdoor elementary school where learning happens entirely outdoors. Jade also teaches various courses including social and educational issues, curriculum theories and implementation, philosophy of education, and issues related to Asian and Asian diaspora communities. Outside of academia, Jade has been a housing-justice organizer for the past 8 years working primarily in Vancouver’s Chinatown fighting against gentrification and racism and with the Vancouver Tenants Union. She is also a labour organizer with the Teaching Support Staff Union and Contract Worker Justice @SFU, a coalition of workers, students and larger SFU community members fighting to end outsourcing practice at the University. Her doctoral work centres on developing a radical pedagogy of place and discussing decolonization responsibility and accountability specifically focusing on immigrant settlers and their connection to place, land and identity. Growing up in both coastal Taiwan and the Caribbeans, Jade finds home in water and loves to dance her heart out.
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