SCHOLARSHIP & SPEAKING
Thought Leadership in Education, AI, and Public Policy
Thought Leadership in Education, AI, and Public Policy
I spend a significant part of my professional life at the front of rooms — conference halls, boardrooms, lecture theatres, and policy tables. The through-line across that work is a conviction that education’s most important challenges are not primarily technical: they are about judgment, values, and the long-term interests of the communities that institutions exist to serve.
That conviction shapes how I write and speak about AI, international education policy, digital safety, curriculum design, and academic leadership. My thinking appears in three distinct registers — policy advocacy, educational positioning, and practitioner keynote — because different audiences need different entry points into the same underlying ideas.
One Year In: What Study Permit Caps Are Really Doing to B.C.’s Economic Future
POLICY ADVOCACY — GREATER VANCOUVER BOARD OF TRADE — FEBRUARY 2026
Published in the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade’s media platform, this op-ed makes the case that Canada’s study permit cap policy — while addressing genuine concerns about growth and housing — has been implemented in ways that contradict its own stated intent. One year in, the Provincial Attestation Letter framework is producing uneven constraints across graduate programs in fields the province has identified as critical to workforce capacity: cybersecurity, health care, clean technology, and data science. The piece argues that course correction is urgent, that the business community has a direct stake in the outcome, and that the window for action is closing.
A note on context: this piece was submitted shortly before NYIT Vancouver announced the closure of its campus — an outcome I had anticipated and described explicitly. I’ve written separately about what that closure means, and what it doesn’t.
The Creativity Question: Does Schooling Really Kill Creativity?
SCHOLARLY — EDUCATION CANADA MAGAZINE — JUNE 2020
Published in Education Canada, this piece interrogates Sir Ken Robinson’s famous argument that schools kill creativity. Working through the question led to a distinction I’ve carried since: what we often mistake for creativity’s death is actually the arrival of reason — which is a gift, not a threat. The deeper problem is that too many students, somewhere along the way, stop believing in possibility. Possibility is the fuel. Reason is the engine. You need both, and it’s the educator’s job to protect them simultaneously.
HIGHLIGHTED KEYNOTES
AI in Education — NYIT Board of Trustees Briefing
NEW YORK, NY — DECEMBER 2025
Invited to New York to brief the full Board of Trustees of the New York Institute of Technology on the state of artificial intelligence in higher education. The presentation covered the current landscape of AI tools in teaching and learning, NYIT Vancouver’s specific initiatives in AI governance and faculty development, and a framework for thinking about institutional AI strategy in terms of educational values rather than competitive positioning. The Board used the session as the basis for subsequent institutional AI policy discussions.
Implementing BC’s Redesigned Curriculum: A Practical Framework
BC MINISTRY OF EDUCATION PROVINCIAL OUTREACH — 2017–18
On behalf of the BC Ministry of Education and FISABC, I delivered a series of training presentations to thousands of educators across British Columbia on the implementation of the province’s redesigned K–12 curriculum. The presentations were designed to move beyond policy description toward practical classroom application, with a particular focus on holistic assessment practices and competency-based learning design. This engagement gave me a province-wide perspective on educational change that continues to inform how I approach curriculum development in post-secondary contexts.
Digital Threat Assessment in Schools: Emerging Challenges
ICAC / NASRO CONFERENCES — MULTIPLE YEARS
As a Director of Training at Safer Schools Together, I have delivered keynote presentations on Digital Threat Assessment (DTA) at major school safety conferences across North America, including the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC) conferences and the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) annual summit. These presentations draw on my work developing DTA frameworks for educators, law enforcement, and school administrators, and on collaborative research with institutions including the University of Notre Dame on threat assessment methodology.
Imagination as Infrastructure: AI, Creativity, and the Teaching University
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCES — ONGOING
A recurring keynote exploring what it means for a teaching-focused institution to engage with AI thoughtfully — neither avoiding it out of anxiety nor adopting it uncritically out of competitive pressure. The argument is that imagination is not threatened by AI; it is required by it. The institutions and educators who will navigate this moment well are those who have invested in the deeper capacities that AI cannot replicate: judgment, ethical reasoning, relational intelligence, and disciplinary wisdom.
Writing & Presentations
POLICY & ADVOCACY
One Year In: What Study Permit Caps Are Really Doing to B.C.’s Economic Future (Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, February 2026) — Op-ed on the economic consequences of Canada’s federal study permit cap policy and the PAL framework’s uneven impact on graduate programming in critical workforce sectors.
BOOK CHAPTERS
[Forthcoming] Book Chapter: “AI in Higher Education” — contributing chapter to an edited volume on artificial intelligence and the future of post-secondary teaching and learning.
SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
The Creativity Question: Does Schooling Really Kill Creativity? (Education Canada, June 2020) — Examines the evidence behind the “schools kill creativity” argument and proposes a more nuanced account centring the distinction between creative possibility and the development of reason.
GUIDES & RESOURCES
Growing Digital Citizenship Guide (Society of Christian Schools in BC, 2016) — A framework for educational technology integration across a network of 43 K–12 schools, now widely referenced in provincial digital citizenship discussions.
BC Ministry of Education Resources — Contributed as subject-matter expert to provincial resources on digital safety and responsible online behaviour.
RESEARCH & GRANTS
Global Innovation Research Grant (GIRG) — Established the GIRG at NYIT Vancouver to foster cross-institutional research collaboration. The grant supports faculty and student research with a multi-campus dimension, encouraging scholarly partnerships that extend beyond the Vancouver campus.
NYIT Vancouver Research Grant (VRG) Recipient (2021) — $5,000 grant supporting collaborative research on the use of virtual reality environments to improve learning retention. The project involved cross-disciplinary faculty collaboration and contributed to NYIT Vancouver’s emerging research culture.
Collaborative Research — University of Notre Dame — Worked with Notre Dame researchers to evaluate and improve Digital Threat Assessment methodologies. The collaboration combined theoretical frameworks from criminology and educational psychology with practical field data from threat assessment practitioners.
Full Listing of Work
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