With great pleasure, please join me in welcoming Ella Wright as the new EDST Blog Editor. The EDST Blog has grown into a vibrant hub of insights, exchanges and contributions by EDST Members. We are grateful to Jessica Lussier, its first Editor, for her dedication and hard work in promoting the Blog as a community venue and diversified and amplified its many section.
The incoming EDST Blog Editor, Ella Wright, takes over from December 1st, 2024 with new directions. Here’s the information included about Ella in the December 2024 Student Newsletter:
“Ella Wright will be taking over the role as EDST blog editor from Jessica Lussier. Jessica has completed her two year term as Blog Editor during which she has and provided guidance for the blog space and creatively initiated a number of blog-based initiatives.
More about Ella:
I’m an education advisor with a commitment to tackling roots causes of inequality, linked to the dominant stories of our time (colonial capitalism). I’ve lived and worked in over twenty countries, mainly in Southern and Eastern Africa. I believe that separation and grief create blockages for us to truly connect to ourselves, with others, and with our ancestral realms. I believe in a world where we remain open-hearted, and look to steward the land as a living entity. I have three young children and wish to equip them with values and skills to approach our changing world with reverence and compassion, to help us heal our wounded parts, together.
My research weaves together trauma studies and relational approaches to healing with education. I hope to apply this to land-based learning approaches, supporting reconciliation with Indigenous peoples through preservation of traditional languages and knowledges. I’m an international development professional with twenty years experience working in East and Southern Africa. I seek to understand highly-individualist notions of burnout and trauma through ‘decolonized’ and collective lenses. You’ll find me in the trees, with my feet deep in the earth, connected to all that is living.
Please feel free to connect with Ella to submit blog posts, or propose collaborative initiatives with the blog edstblog.editor@ubc.ca “
(Above text reproduced as published in the December 2024 EDST Student Newsletter)
Please join me in thanking Jessica for a wonderful term as Editor and welcoming Ella to a position that provides the EDST community with spaces for reflection and sharing. We wish her all success and fulfillment in this role. EDST is grateful to the GAA Team for adjudicating applications and attending to the selection process throughout.
Please also consider submitting your entries to the EDST Blog. Do not hesitate to reach out to the Editor with your suggestions, ideas, essays and proposed media.