Yi Chien Jade Ho 何宜謙 (she/they) is an immigrant settler on the Unceded Territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) peoples. They are currently a Post-doctoral Fellow at the School of Public Health and Social Policy at University of Victoria, BC. Jade received their PhD in Education Theory and Practice from Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, in Nov 2023.

Before coming to SFU, Jade was a language teacher in various universities in Chetumal, Mexico. During their time as a teacher in Mexico, Jade coordinated and designed several language programs involves children from the age of 9 to university students. In their time as a grad student at SFU, Jade has been a community-based researcher at the Environmental School Project, which is a public outdoor elementary school where learning happens entirely outdoors. Jade also teaches various courses including topics from social and educational issues, curriculum theories and implementation, philosophy of education to community organizing, racial justice, and labour studies. 

Outside of academia, they have been a labour organizer with the Teaching Support Staff Union, and a housing justice organizer with the vancouver tenants union working primarily in Vancouver's Chinatown to fight against gentrification and anti-Asian racism. they also worked on the Contract Worker Justice @SFU project and campaign, where a coalition of faculty, students, workers, and community members at large work to end outsourcing of food and cleaning service at SFU. 

their doctoral work, entitled Radical Pedagogy of Place: A Decolonial Feminist Narrative Exploration of Returning, Organizing and Resisting. This work centers on developing a radical pedagogy of place through the lens of decolonization in cross-cultural contexts and the connection between place, land and identity in marginalized communities in Taiwan and in Vancouver.

See Jade’s Curriculum Vitae Here.