Vanessa Andreotti is a former Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change and a former David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education. She is Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. She is the author Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism (2021) and one of the co-founders of the Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures (GTDF) Arts/Research Collective.