Jenel Shaw

(Touring Artist, Staff)

Jenel Shaw is a self-taught visual artist. Her artistic focus is learning new ways to craft and explore artistic expression. Jenel graduated with her masters in Disability Studies from the University of Manitoba. Her dissertation, An Autoethnological Study of Art as a Tool of Empowerment, examined her own experiences with mental illness and disability art. Jenel is executive director of Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba and the sensory and content reviewer for Prairie Theatre Exchange  . Jenel serves on many arts boards including being the Co-Chair of the Manitoba Artist-Run Centre Coalition and the Liaison Director for the Manitoba Cultural Society of the Deaf. Jenel is a strong advocate for the d/Deaf and disabilty arts community and provides anti-ablesit training for the arts 

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Tal Jarus

Tal Jarus is a Professor at the Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy department at the University of British Columbia. Tal identifies as a queer, white, cis woman, settler, who immigrated to Canada 17 years ago. She live as an uninvited guest on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people. Her research stem from the disability studies, focusing on investigating barriers to full participation of diverse groups of people with disability. In the past few years her career is dedicated to social justice transformation, including focused research on justice and equity in the health and human service professions, in particular looking at the facilitators and barriers for the participation of students and clinicians from equity denied groups in those professions. Tal use innovative technics in her research, including art, such as photovoice or Research-Based Theatre.

Avital Jarus Hakak

Avital Jarus Hakak has been living in Vancouver in the last 18 years. Avital holds an MSc in epidemiology and have worked in the field of Epidemiology of Cancer as well as in Occupational and Environmental Health. Her previous affiliations included Gertner Institute (Israel) and UBC, School of Population and Public Health.

Throughout the past two decades Avital has been involved in the local community advocating for accessibility in the arts, and enhancing access for cultural events including theatre, music and visual arts events, working as a volunteer (at VocalEye) and a volunteer coordinator (at Vancouver Folk Music Festival, accessibility committee) .

Laura Bulk

Laura Yvonne Bulk is a daughter, friend, cousin, tante; she is a Dutch settler to W̱SÁNEĆ territory; she is a first-generation university student, a disabled scholar, and an occupational therapy educator. She is an advocate and artist. As an Assistant Professor of Teaching in Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy at the new site located in Surrey, she has the opportunity to engage in educational leadership activities. My work focuses on promoting justice (right relationship) in academia, interprofessional education, and in distributed health professions education. She is particularly interested in the power of creative techniques and solidarity in anti-ableism, decolonization, and other equity-focussed work. Some keywords that describe her work include belonging, allyship, solidarity, #HigherEd, health professions education, teaching and learning, accessibility, palliative care, occupational science, and #DisabilityAsDiversity.

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Laura Yvonne Bulk (hear it), PhD, OT (Reg. BC), BSW | she/her

Assistant Professor of Teaching | Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy

Faculty of Medicine | The University of British Columbia

xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Territory

Twitter: @LYBOT