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Instructor, Economics and Marketing Naser Arda has been in post-secondary education since 2016. Naser's teaching journey began at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ontario. Later work includes serving as the entrepreneurial thinking programming advisor at the University of Calgary and offering consultancy expertise in innovation to two other institutions in Ontario and Jerusalem. Naser serves as a

Danica Weager (she/her) was born and raised in Nelson, BC. She is of mixed ancestry. She is a member of Peguis First Nation on her mother's side and has European ancestry on her father's side. She is a proud mama of a youngster and is committed to learning more about her cultural connections. She is deeply grateful to be a visitor in the traditional territories of the Sinixt (Lakes), the Syilx

Instructor, Culinary Arts Kootenay-born professional pastry chef and chocolatier Merri Schwartz has been working in the BC food community since 2002. Merri credits her childhood with awakening her interest in baking. Raised by back-to-the-land hippies, she didn’t buy her first bag of granulated sugar until the age of 18 and learned, in a kitchen filled with carob, honey and whole wheat flour, that