Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti (she/her) is the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity's wrongs and the implications for social activism. She is also one of the founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective and the co-curator of Art-Life Rituals for Radical Tenderness with performance artist Dani d'Emilia. Vanessa is a former Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities, and Global Change and a former David Lam Chair in Critical Multicultural Education. Vanessa has more than 100 published articles and has worked extensively across sectors internationally in areas of education related to global justice, global citizenship, critical literacies, Indigenous knowledge systems, and the climate and nature emergency. She is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Education of the University of Victoria.