Mariam Hazhir has been working as a Secondary Teacher for 8 years with Surrey School District. She obtained her degree at UBC in English and Microbiology, and shortly after obtained her Bachelor’s in Curriculum and Instruction at SFU and completed her PDP training. More recently, she completed her Master of Educational Leadership and Administration at Yorkville University. Her principles of making connections to land for learning and strengthening inter-generational relationships and knowledge is evident in her community work. Mariam was the Teacher Lead and Co-Curriculum Developer for FarsiDarBC. Mariam’s curriculum writing strategies and leadership resulted in Farsi being approved as a teachable second language within the province. Mariam’s work in PAC includes helping curate Biology lessons in Farsi for the M-learning audio platform podcast to combat the ban of education abasing young girls by the Taliban. Mariam’s success in her teaching practices has been featured on National Television numerous times such as CBC, The National, CTV and other media outlets. Mariam has been interviewed for CBC podcasts along with neuroscientists in her work as a Math Teacher combating student’s Math anxiety. Currently, Mariam works as the Indigenous Graduate Advocate for Surrey Schools and is the Indigenous Department Head: supporting Teachers at her school integrate Indigenous content into their pedagogies. Her community work includes but is not limited to collaboration with nonprofit organization BC4Afghans and New West Minister’s Anvil Centre New Media Art Gallery: helping provide STEM workshops for newcomer/refugee migrants. She is passionate about helping youth take an interdisciplinary approach towards the sciences and the arts!