University of Guelph-Humber

Michael Tam has been teaching in the Business program at the University of Guelph-Humber since 2018. He teaches Audit and accounting-related courses for the University of Guelph Humber and Trent University. He obtained his CPA, CA after joining Grant Thornton LLP and writing the UFE in 2014. After becoming Assurance Manager, he has since transitioned his career into a full-time realtor in Toronto while lecturing on a part-time basis. He has lived, studied, and worked in France, Australia, and Canada. In his spare time, he enjoys staying active, motorcycle rides, reading, photography, and traveling.

Valerie Trew has been teaching at the University of Guelph-Humber since 2017. Valerie is the Director at the University of Guelph Child Care and Learning Centre in Guelph, Ont. As a Registered Early Childhood Educator with a Master of Arts in Leadership, she also teaches in the Bachelor of Applied Science program at the University of Guelph and the University of Guelph-Humber applying a lens of social and environmental justice to studies in policy, administration, and leadership. Valerie views teaching, from early learning to post-secondary, as a political act and does so with a view to provoke radical social transformation towards a post-colonial world. She has spent 20 years working in children’s services through post-secondary education, regional government, early intervention, and early learning and child care. Holding a certificate in Plant Based Nutrition, Valerie is also passionate about transforming our food systems for human and planetary health and to end oppression.