Vanessa Andreotti

Vanessa Andreotti is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She previously held the Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities, and Global Change, as well as the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education.

Her research explores the entanglements of historical, systemic, and ongoing forms of violence with the inherent unsustainability of modernity. Vanessa has authored over 100 publications and has worked extensively across sectors and internationally in areas of education related to global justice, critical literacies, Indigenous knowledge systems, and the climate and nature emergency.

She is the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism (2021). Vanessa is also a founding member of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective and a lead designer of the course Facing Human Wrongs: Climate Complexity and Relational Accountability, offered through Continuing Studies at UVic.