Jodi Derkson, MEd. is a BC Certified teacher, with over twenty years of professional teaching and facilitation experience. She has always broached topics of discrimination, racism, and bullying with her students and hasn’t lost her drive to really make a difference. Jodi is very proud to be working for FAST to support education in BC with online resources which foster inclusion. Jodi is also the founder of www.imperativeeducation.org where she facilitates workshops for educators on bullying, social emotional learning, mindfulness, and conscious communication. She wholeheartedly believes that opening the dialogue on sensitive yet topical subjects with heart, mind and creativity can be highly transformative for students and their communities.