Join the TEAL Charitable Foundation in celebrating EAL educators and students. The wine and appetizer event will begin with honouring the 2024-25 educator and student award winners. The awards ceremony will be followed by a talk from Raymonde Tickner, one of the editors, and several authors of "Geographies of the Heart: Stories from Newcomers to Canada". This book was published last year by UBC Press and contains inspiring stories of resilience from newcomers to Canada. According to BC Bookworld: "[The] accounts [of Geographies of the Heart] belie the many misconceptions about immigration and immigrants by revealing that the paths into Canada are as diverse as the people who journeyed them."

Yuki Yamazaki (author)

Yuki is a LINC instructor who loves meeting people from all over the world and is dedicated to supporting newcomers on their language learning journey. 

Akberet Seyoum (author)

Akberet is a journalist and author, originally from Eritrea.

Nuria Sefchovich (author)

Nuria is a Strategic communications professional at S.U.C.C.E.S.S. and servies as Board Director at IABC/BC.

Diary Marif (author)

Diary is a writer and freelance journalist covering newcomer issues in Canada, as well as social and political issues in the Middle East for national and international media.

Raymonde Tickner (co-editor)