Melissa-Ann Pereira Ledo (she/her/they) is of azorean settler background, is a proud queer mother, and is an educator/artist/researcher. She has over a decade of teaching and leadership experience in the Educational system, is a former Pedagogical Consultant for the English Montreal School Board, and co-founded the social enterprise and non-profit inPath. She has worked as part-time faculty for the Art Education department of Concordia University, consultant for Equitas’s Young Leaders for Equality LGBTI project in Haiti, and Consultant/ Director for the La Cabane. Her Masters work followed elementary teachers' creation and implementation of age-appropriate arts curriculum focused on Queering Curriculum, and she blossomed this work into a community initiative called Rainbow Story Hour. As a researcher her work focuses on curriculum development, queering curriculum, ideas of representation, community building amongst educators, and facilitating through the arts with a focus on how to best support marginalized youth. She has more recently held roles at McGill University as Research Assistant, Course Lecturer, and Teaching Assistant. She is currently a SSHRC funded PhD McGill University student, with her work: Representation Matters: Informing Schools on Becoming Human Rights Leaders Through the Transformative Power of Queer Teaching Artists. Ledo is also the Program Manager for exChange: an initiative whose aim is to break isolation and promote dialogue in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke english-speaking 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, organizations, and peoples, with a focus on intergenerational work, Social Media Coordinator for Queer Studies in Education and Culture, and a mentor for Concordia’s Art Volt.