Kathryn Burke, BA Hon, MA is the Executive Director of the Centre for Literacy, an organization which supports students with learning disabilities. Prior to taking on the leadership of the Centre in 2013, she served for 5 years as the Executive Director of the Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta, where she initiated the Right to Read program. Kathryn frequently serves as a guest lecturer on learning disabilities in many post-secondary organizations across Alberta. She is the author of the bestselling non-fiction book, An Accidental Advocate. Kathryn earned her Master’s degree from the University of Calgary and has received numerous awards for her advocacy work.
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Ashley McPherson, BEd, MEd is a teacher and resource developer at the Centre for Literacy. Since coming to the Centre for Literacy in 2017, she has been offering intensive reading remediation for students of all ages in French and English. Before teaching at the Centre for Literacy, she taught grades one and two at a Francophone school. Ashley was nominated for the Edwin Parr Teacher Award, which recognizes outstanding first year teachers, in part due to her excellent literacy instruction. She completed a B.Ed at the Campus Saint Jean in 2015 and recently completed a Masters of Professional Education in Literacy Studies at Western University.