{"id":384,"date":"2024-08-22T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/psychologymtdisupplement\/back-matter\/about-the-author\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T21:08:00","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"back-matter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/psychologymtdisupplement\/back-matter\/about-the-author\/","title":{"raw":"About the Author","rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"raw":"","rendered":"<section class=\"contributors book-contributors\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"contributor__type\">Author<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor\">\n\t<div class=\"contributor__name__and__links\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor__info__large\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"contributor__name\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">name: <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJessica Motherwell McFarlane, Ph.D.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"contributor__institution\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">institution: <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJustice Institution of British Columbia\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"contributor__bio\"><p>I am an uninvited guest working and living on the stolen territories of the x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259m (Musqueam), Skwxw\u00fa7mesh-ulh Tem\u00edx\u0331w (Squamish), and s\u0259l\u0313ilw\u0259ta\u0241\u026c t\u0259m\u0259x\u02b7 (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.\u00a0My ancestors were Celtic, British, and Germanic. As I a white, heterosexual, cisgender, able-bodied, healthy, middle class woman, I am committed to increasing my awareness of my advantages in life and using my privilege to benefit others.\u00a0I have more than 30 years experience as a feminist scholar, instructor, researcher, and counsellor with a specialization in women\u2019s development, gender, EDI and decolonization. I am the program developer and director of<i> Life Outside the Box<\/i> \u2014 a JIBC initiative \u2014 that focuses on using visual narratives (stick figure comics) to teach about oppression, anti-oppression best practices, and other social justice learning issues. I am a deeply spiritual, Nature-loving, Unitarian Universalist. My spiritual and religious beliefs inform my values around protecting the Earth; honouring the inherent worth and dignity of each person; committing myself to ending oppressive systems and actions; and supporting the rights of 2SLGBTQIA+ people. I have a fundamental commitment to conducting myself with supreme kindness and radical inclusivity in all my relationships. I adore spending time around children and babies which was one of the reasons I chose to earn a Ph.D. in developmental psychology. I have been honoured to teach many hundreds of students in my career \u2014 all of whom have taught me about my mistakes, trusted me to improve, and celebrated when I got it right. Every day, I am grateful for my husband, child, family \u2014 and cats \u2014 who fill my life with adventure, beauty, and love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"back-matter-type":[34],"contributor":[],"license":[57],"class_list":["post-384","back-matter","type-back-matter","status-publish","hentry","back-matter-type-contributors","license-cc-by-nc-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/psychologymtdisupplement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/psychologymtdisupplement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/psychologymtdisupplement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/back-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/psychologymtdisupplement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/psychologymtdisupplement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/psychologymtdisupplement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/384\/revisions\/385"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/psychologymtdisupplement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/384\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/psychologymtdisupplement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"back-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/psychologymtdisupplement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter-type?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/psychologymtdisupplement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/psychologymtdisupplement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}