Educational and Programming Expert
Alongside my one-on-one work with scholars and creatives, I regularly collaborate with academic, cultural, and heritage organizations, to create and advance socially-responsible storytelling practices in collections, curation, design, and programming. Interlacing Indigenous, diasporic, and settler perspectives on history, testimony, and heritage, my pedagogic and programming expertise are committed to reparative heritage, decolonial, and reconciliatory education.
When partnering with institutions, I
- •Professional Training & Capacity Buildingdesign and lead tailored professional training, seminars, and workshops for institutional staff, heritage professionals, and community stakeholders.
- •Public Scholarship & Dialoguehost topic-based public lectures, interactive webinars, and panel discussions that bring complex research into dialogue with the public.
- •Curriculum Design & Reviewcollaborate with educational organizations to conduct research-based design, critical review, and comprehensive revisions of academic and professional curricula.
- •Exhibition Design & Public Programmingdeveloping, curating, and fully realizing public programming and physical or digital exhibitions that foster ethical witnessing and communal engagement.
Over the past few years, I have collaborated with organizations such as Carleton's Heritage Conservation Program, Ontario Museum Association, Museums Association of Saskatchewan, Carleton University Art Gallery, Survivor-Centered Visual Narratives Project, and the Canadian Museums Association.
"From the outset, working with Orly as a pedagogical consultant was both delightful and incredibly productive. Alongside her considerable expertise, her relational approach meant that she remained responsive to the needs of our organization while also helping us to evolve and grow the original vision of the program review so that final outcomes were adaptive, emergent and integrative, and ultimately, fit-for-purpose for both individual learner and the sector at large. I truly look forward to working with Orly again on future projects and cannot recommend her more highly to other organizations looking to grow, develop or reconceptualize their community and learning programs."
Jamie McKenzie-Naish
Interim Executive Director, Ontario Museum Association
Selected Publications
- —"Lives of the nation: On Teaching Life Writing in the Canadian Studies classroom." 2026. Teaching the Truth: Navigating Non-fiction in the Contemporary Classroom special issue of Text, vol. 30 (special issue 77): 1-11.
- —"On Teaching Life Writing in an Age of Social Change." 2022. Co-edited with Amanda Spallacci as part of our edited collection titled Teaching Life Writing: Theory, Methodology, and Practice. 2025, Routledge.