Dr Shirley-Pat Gale is a passionate literacy advocate and is co-lead of Write to Read BC with with Bob Blacker.
Driven by an insatiable curiosity and a passion for changing the world around her, Gale is committed to social-action literacy initiatives and community-development innovation in isolated BC communities, both indigenous and non-indigenous.
Gale has built strong and meaningful relationships with each Indigenous community or Nation that she has had the privilege and honour of working with across the Pacific Northwest, as well as with non-Indigenous organizations, communities, and governments.
Gale has an interdisciplinary and multicultural education, with a doctorate in Canadian studies, a master in education in leadership, and a bachelor of arts in history and classical languages and literature. She’s taught in China and Japan, and taught a pre-trades program focused on trades and literacy for Indigenous learners in Canada. Currently, Gale is a comprehensive community-planning mentor working with Indigenous communities and is the sole proprietor of her own consulting company.