Resume

• 2014

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Adult Education and Community Development

  University of Toronto

  Advanced University Teaching Program Certificate

  Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation

  University of Toronto

• 2011

  University of Toronto

  School of Cities at the University of Toronto

  University of Victoria

  University of Toronto

  University of Toronto Scarborough

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  Assist in the delivery of a range of courses at UofT throughout my Master's degree and PhD. Courses include: Municipal and Planning Law in Ontario

  Environmental Planning

  Urban Design

  New Economic Spaces

  Introduction to African Studies

  Africa and the World

  Political Ecology

  Conservation and Sustainable Development

  Teaching Assistant

  University of Toronto

  Hired under the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant to assist in coordination of faculty research regarding Indigenous education

  especially the piloted First Nations Schools Principals' Course. This position involves working with faculty and partnering organizations to collect and analyze data

  and has yielded journal publications (for which I am lead author) and conference presentations.

  Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto

  CUPE 3902 Joint Health and Safety Committee

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  Attend Joint Health and Safety Committee meetings; discuss and vote on matters of workplace health and safety as a representative of my Faculty and Union at UofT.

  Union Representative

  Courses taught:\n1. Environmental thought & contemporary political action (research seminar); Department of Human Geography\n\n2. Political Ecology: Nature

  Society

  and Environmental Change

  in the Department of Human Geography.\n\n3. Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development

  in the Department of Human Geography\n\n4. Geography of Global Processes

  Department of Human Geography

  University of Toronto Scarborough

  University of Toronto

  Toronto

  Canada

  My PhD Candidacy consisted of many contract positions at the University of Toronto as a researcher

  teaching assistant

  and course instructor

  as well as various academic achievement awards and scholarships.

  PhD Candidate

  Designed a high-school/university entry-level curriculum project as a deliverable for the Youth Outreach component of a major collaborative research initiative

  entitled iCity. I designed the cross-curricular unit to incorporate numerous pedagogical resources and technologies that serve to enhance student experience and skills. The goal of the unit is to design a complete-street

  while extending student connections and understandings of their nearby urban environments. \n

  Maximum City

  Toronto

  Cananda and Eastern Cape Province

  South Africa

  Research assistant under African Research Institute Grant

  conducted field work for rural development project in South Africa and contributed to its publication in peer-reviewed journal

  Land Use Policy. Link to policy brief included below.

  Research Assistant

  University of Toronto

  Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC)

  Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE)

  Canadian Association for the Study of Indigenous Education (CASIE)

  Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE)

  Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG)

  MacIntosh Prize in Geography

  Department of Geography

  University of Western Ontario

  Ontario Graduate Scholarship Award

  Ontario Provincial Government

  Ontario Graduate Scholarship Award

  Declined in favour of larger award from federal government

  Government of Ontario

  Michael Ralph Walsh Scholarship

  Department of Geography

  UofT

  Gold Medal

  University of Western Ontario

  Certificate of Merit for Academic Excellence

  Department of Geography

  University of Western Ontario

  Ontario Graduate Scholarship

  Government of Ontario through the School of Graduate Studies

  UofT

  OISE Academic Excellence Award

  OISE Academic Excellence Award

  Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

  Ontario Graduate Scholarship

  Ontario Government

  SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship

  $20

  000 awarded from Canadian government for academic merit and doctoral research

  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Counicl

  Award for Excellence in Scholarship

  National Council for Geographic Education and the Association of American Geographers

  Master of Arts (M.A.)

  MA thesis on development strategies affecting Indigenous peoples in the Wild Coast Region of South Africa. Final thesis edited and published in The International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology

  entitled \"​'Development’ at the crossroads: Biodiversity and land-use tensions on South Africa’s Wild Coast\"

  Geography and Planning

  University of Toronto

• 2010

  Municipal Property Assessment Corporation

  Maximum City

  Researching recently sold properties in the Toronto Region

  contributing findings to tax valuation process using specialized software programs

  checking status of permits for industrial properties across Toronto

  and updating government lists accordingly

  Property Valuation Assistant

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  Municipal Property Assessment Corporation

  Conduct research on Indigenous Online Education through the Department of Indigenous Education. \n\nThis role involves gathering and assessing a broad range of data from previous or existent educational programs

  writing publications

  and presenting on the subject matter throughout Canada.

  University of Victoria

  School of Cities at the University of Toronto

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  Design

  conduct and present research related to sustainable cities. Special focus on the City of Toronto

  Sustainable Cities Working Group

• 2007

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  Honours Specialization in Geography

  Western University

• Integrating Food Security with Land Reform: A More Effective Policy for South Africa

  This policy brief asks how the South African government should ensure that its efforts to promote agriculture as a food security measure do not exacerbate the land tenure rights of the rural poor

  which were already weakened under apartheid. Answering this question

  the authors argue

  necessitates the recognition that land reform in South Africa has not progressed as well as expected.

  I consult the condo association re: means of increasing building sustainability and efficiency

  as well as ways to encourage residents to slightly modify individual behaviours

  contributing to an overall large scale change. I also help facilitate environmental education events in the building.

  1001 Bay Condo Association

  Chair

  Green Committee

  Lead

  organize and coordinate events and relevant meetings for sustainability projects at 1001 Bay St Condos. Winner of $12

  000 municipal grant for the project entitled \"Greenest Building on Bay St\"

  1001 Bay Condo Association

  Energy Exchange Program

  Moksha Yoga & Meditation

  Trading-off: Rural food security and land rights in South Africa

  Thembela Kepe

  Trading-off: Rural food security and land rights in South Africa

  Thembela Kepe

  Engagement with development proposals affecting Indigenous communities in the Wild Coast

  South Africa

  using a political ecology theoretical framework

  \"​'Development’ at the crossroads: Biodiversity and land-use tensions on South Africa’s Wild Coast\"

  Book Review of Red Skin

  White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition by G.S. Coulthard

  Thembela Kepe

  Integrating Food Security with Land Reform: A More Effective Policy for South Africa

  Co-authored by JP. Restoule

  P. Gaviria

  J. Flessa

  C. Lindeman

  and C. Scully-Stewart. Please message me for a copy of the PDF

  The Five R’s for Indigenizing online learning: A case study of the First Nations Schools’ Principals Course

  Danielle

  Tessaro

  CUPE 3902 Joint Health and Safety Committee

  Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto