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Lindsay Brown, MA, BEd, BA, PBDE – Lead Trainer

Availability:          Canada
Languages:           English
Specializations:    LGBTQ2+ inclusive education; creating safe spaces in schools; starting, developing, and maintaining a Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) or similarly focused student group; facilitating challenging discussions with youth; supporting trans and gender creative youth.

Lindsay Brown (pronouns: they/them/theirs/Mx.) is a high school and post-secondary educator based out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. With over a decade of classroom experience, Lindsay works with colleagues to make course content inclusive of LGBTQ2+ lives and experiences, all the while sharing their love of film, comics, literature, and art with their students.

Lindsay is the Lead Facilitator of QUESO: Queering Seven Oaks, a network of educators from the Seven Oaks School Division that is working to provide support, education, co-teaching opportunities, and resources to colleagues regarding LGBTQ2+ inclusive practice.

In addition to their work in the classroom, Lindsay is actively involved in their local teachers’ association and sits on the standing committee for Equity and Social Justice at the Manitoba Teachers’ Society. Along with a number of colleagues, Lindsay helped to develop LGBTQ2+ lesson plans and resources for publication on the Manitoba Teachers’ Society website.

In their work with the University of Winnipeg Department of Education, Lindsay instructed a course titled Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Inclusive Education: Elementary in the Winter of 2018. Lindsay also served as a Casual Education Facilitator with the Rainbow Resource Centre from August of 2014 until May of 2017.

As a queer, non-binary teacher, Lindsay cares deeply about increasing the visibility of educators from historically marginalized groups, and is thrilled and honoured to be working with the incredible team at Diversity Essentials.