WriteForward Team Update

The WriteForward project team is delighted to welcome Berniece Gowan as Project Coordinator. Berniece has joined us to cover for Deanna Jager while Deanna is on leave. Berniece has spent the last 11 years in and around the community adult literacy field. In her 10 years working as a project manager with Literacy Alberta she was primarily involved with providing support, training and professional development to adult literacy/learning practitioners.  During that time she had the opportunity to work with Dr. Jenny Horsman, a community educator and researcher whose focus is on the impact of violence on learning. The work with Dr. Horsman created an opportunity for Berniece to integrate the previous 20 years working as a social worker in the non-profit community with the knowledge she was gaining about literacy. Finding creative ways to build literacy awareness into services and programming that address the complex needs of vulnerable populations continues to be a passion for Berniece. Berniece has spent the past year working with the team at Campus Alberta Connections, Alberta Enterprise and Advanced Education on a number of projects connected to the community adult learning system. She is truly as asset to the WriteForward project.

Please join us in welcoming Berniece to the college and department.