Meet the team behind the Community and Cultural Mapping Research Group, led by researchers, faculty members, and university students.
Alana Hoare
Alana is an assistant teaching professor in the School of Education at TRU whose academic interests focus on ethical leadership and culturally responsive governance in higher education; specifically, the role of cultures and epistemologies and their influence on educational systems. Previously, Alana taught elementary school and English language learners. She also spent nearly a decade as a quality assurance scholar-practitioner and maintains a research program in this field.
Angel Masano
TRU, Undergraduate Student RA
Cheryl Gladu
Cheryl Gladu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Enterprise and Innovation at TRU is an interdisciplinary scholar who studies, among other things, how people co-create and manage dynamic systems of governance to solve meaningful problems together.
Jason Schapansky
TRU, Assistant Teaching Professor
Jayse Matonovich
TRU, Undergraduate Student RA
Jessica Mensinger
Clinical Operations Manager, Substance Use Team, Kamloops MHSU Interior Health
Kate Fagervik
Kate Fagervik (she/her) is the Manager of Student Research & Community Engagement at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree as is a specialist in arts-based community engagement and cultural mapping.
Kristi Rintoul
Manager, Community Impact and Investment
Lana Fine
TRU, Graduate Student RA
Lorry-Ann Austin
Lorry-Ann Austin’s research focuses on the landscape of learning outcomes assessment and the links between media framing, education, and civil discourse that advances democratic participation and human rights.
Luke Redgrove
TRU, Undergraduate Student RA and videographer
Marnie Badham
RMIT University, Associate Professor; TRU, Adjunct Professor
Nancy Duxbury
Nancy Duxbury is a senior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, where she is coordinator of the transdisciplinary research line “Urban Cultures, Sociabilities and Participation” and principal investigator of the Horizon Europe project “IN SITU: Place-based Innovation of Cultural and Creative Industries in Non-urban Areas” (insituculture.eu).
Natika Bock
Coordinator, Community Impact and Investment, UWBC
Patricia Huntsman
Patricia Huntsman Culture + Communication, Practice Lead
Reanna Shula
Manager of Sustainability and Affordable Housing, CMHA
Sharon Karsten
VIU, Michael Smith Scholar; TRU Adjunct Professor
Sukh Heer Matonovich
TRU, Director of Student Research and Graduate Studies
Tracey Kutschker
Curator, Salmon Arm Arts Centre
Will Garrett-Petts
Will Garrett-Petts is Professor of English and Special Advisor on Integrated Strategic Planning at TRU. He is Principal Investigator tor the Community and Cultural Mapping Research Group.