Dr. Jenny Horsman is a community-based researcher, educator, and activist. She teaches everywhere and anywhere, anyone wants to explore how to support equitable education for all. She has taught undergraduate and graduate students, adult literacy students, and educators working with students of all ages, in Canada, Australia, and South Africa. She is a recipient of the YMCA Peace Medallion, in Toronto, where she lives. She has developed curriculum, conducted training, and delivered workshops and lectures in many parts of the world, on learning, literacy, and practitioner research. Her passionate focus since the early 90s has been understanding the impact of violence on learning, and she dreams of the ways educational interactions in any setting would be changed if we all acknowledged and addressed these impacts.
She has written extensively, including numerous articles, and book chapters, as well as the books Something in my Mind Besides the Everyday, Too Scared to Learn, and Take on the Challenge. She drew in many allies to develop the interactive multi-media site: www.learningandviolence.net and is always looking for new allies and resources from around the world. She hopes this site can become a widely used training site and powerful catalyst for educational change in Canada and Internationally. She is an avid cyclist, “upcycler,” mosaic artist, photographer, gardener, and grandmother, growing and nurturing community, chosen family, our collective creativity, and this precious earth.