Marcia Braundy
Centre for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, B.C.

Marcia Braundy is a Doctoral Candidate in the Centre for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction at UBC. She is working under a Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) doctoral fellowship to write her dissertation as a play, investigating resistances to equity initiatives. Part of this play was produced during the Brave New Play Rites Festival at UBC last spring. Marcia comes to UBC with 20 years as a journeylevel construction carpenter, and a long-term local, provincial and national advocate for women in trades, technology and operations training and work. She is the author of the Orientation to Trades and Technology Curriculum Guide and Resource Book, Managing Editor of Surviving & Thriving Ð Women in Trades and Technology and Employment Equity, and co-author of an award-winning article on female representation at all levels of Technology Studies Education, Missing XX Chromosomes or Gender In/equity in Design and Technology Education? The Case of British Columbia, and The Equity in Apprenticeship Resource Kit.