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PhD Candidate, Education, Queen's University, Ontario

Clarissa de Leon is a teacher, researcher, and writer. She is currently completing her PhD at Queen’s University where she researches anti-racist pedagogies in higher education. She was awarded the 2019 English Thesis Master's Research Award by the Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada for her thesis "'A Calm Arises': An anxious adolescent's experience of building self-compassion through aesthetic reading."

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Educational Developer- Intercultural Teaching, St. Lawrence College, School of Contemporary Teaching and Learning
  • 2020–2024
    Educational Development Associate, Queen's University, Centre for Teaching and Learning
  • 2020–2022
    Program Coordinator, Queen's University, Queen's Reads
  • 2015–2019
    Teaching Assistant, Queen's University, Faculty of Education
  • 2019–2019
    Graduate Teaching Fellow, Queen's University, Faculty of Education
  • 2018–2019
    Research Assistant, Queen's University, Faculty of Education
  • 2014–2016
    Teacher, Peel District School Board

Education

  • 2017 
    Queen's University, Master of Education
  • 2013 
    Queen's University, Bachelor of Education
  • 2012 
    University of Toronto, Bachelor of Arts (Hons.)