Alicia Lapointe

Alicia Lapointe

Critical Policy, Equity and Leadership Studies

Alicia Lapointe

Critical Policy, Equity and Leadership Studies

Alicia Lapointe is a PhD Candidate who researches Gay-Straight Alliances (GSA) and student activism in Ontario public and Catholic schools.  She has received both the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship (2014 - present), and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) (2013) to support her study.

Alicia created and instructs the BEd course, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Two-Spirit, Queer/Questioning (LGBT2Q) Issues In Education (2014 - present).  She has received two University Student Council Teaching Honour Roll Awards of Excellence, and an Education Students' Council Undergraduate Teaching Award (2016-2017) and a nomination for this award (2014-2015) for her work with this course.  She also facilitates online and face-to-face guest lectures in both graduate and undergraduate classes at The University of Manitoba, Lakehead University, Western University, Fanshawe College, and the Ontario Police College in the areas of equity, social justice, and inclusivity; educational policy; social studies; gender, sexual, and romantic minority (GSRM) sensitivity in counseling psychology and policing; health and physical education; and queer and trans theories and methodologies.

In addition to her research and teaching responsibilities, Alicia is actively involved in cultivating a queer- and trans-positive community at the Faculty of Education.  Collaborating with faculty members and students, she organized a Queer, Trans and Two-Spirit (2015) workshop with Egale Canada, and spearheaded three school-wide conferences regarding LGBT2Q issues in education: School's OUT: Educators, Students, and Community Members Discuss LGBT2Q Issues (2014); Teaching OUT: Educators and Students Address Queer Issues in Education (2012); and Busted Injustice: Cultivating Safer Learning Environments (2012). Alicia also co-founded the first GSA at the Faculty of Education. 

Connect with Alicia:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/alapoint13

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicia-lapointe-b2280b24?trk=hp-identity-name

Academia.edu: https://westernu.academia.edu/AliciaLapointe

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alicia_Lapointe

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Wayne Martino, PhD

Supervisor