The Student Wellness and Accessibility Centre is pleased to announce Jacqueline Anderson as the new Associate Director, Wellness and Development. Jacqueline has 20 years of diverse work experience including advanced practice nursing at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and most recently as a manager in an acute mental health care setting at Trillium Health Partners.

Over the years she has been a mental health nurse, community case manager, and faculty at Humber College. For the last five years Jacqueline has been responsible for leading evidenced based programs while focusing on continuous quality improvement and program development initiatives through leadership and consultation with diverse inter-professional teams and multiple stakeholders across the continuum of mental health services. She has been the manager of four inpatient units, two crisis teams in the Emergency Department and two urgent mental health response teams across two hospital sites (Mississauga Hospital and Credit Valley Site). Jacqueline is also cross-appointed as an adjunct lecturer with the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto from 2010-present. 

Jacqueline is looking forward to being a part of the SWAC team and believes that holistic wellness services are paramount in enabling students to be successful in achieving their educational and career goals. Her first day at Humber will be September 12.

Do you want to live a healthier lifestyle?

The Humber Centre for Healthy Living program, Healthy Changes can help make it happen!

Healthy Changes is a comprehensive, eight-month program that combines nutrition, culinary and exercise skills to help you in establishing and sustaining a healthy lifestyle. It includes fitness and nutrition assessments, 12 workshops that cover topics to assist in behaviour change, nutrition, and healthy cooking, as well as two personal training sessions per week. Workshops will be led by HRT faculty in the fall with our HRT students taking over during the winter semester. Your fitness and nutrition assessments will be completed by the HRT students who will design personal workout and meal plans to meet your goals.

Participation: This program is open to Humber students, faculty and staff, as well as industry partners. Participation requires a commitment of 120-150 minutes/week and access to the Humber North campus for services.

Register now! humber.ca/healthyliving

Humber’s Gender Diversity Policy outlines its commitment as it relates to all-gender washrooms

Outlined below in Section 3 of the Policy is an overview of Humber’s statement on All-Gender Washrooms:

• 3.1 The College will make efforts to ensure that all members of the Humber Community can use washrooms with safety, privacy and dignity, regardless of their gender identity or gender expression. All members of the Humber Community may choose to use any accessible all-gender washroom, regardless of their reason(s) for doing so.
• 3.2 The College will make available maps indicating the location of every accessible allgender washroom that is on campus.
• 3.3 Inclusive signage shall be used to identify every all-gender washroom on Humber College premises.

To learn more about all-gender washrooms at Humber College please review the frequently asked questions at the following website address: hrs.humber.ca/assets/files/human_rights/All_Gender_Washrooms_August_2015.pdf

To view the section on all-gender washrooms in Humber’s Gender Diversity Policy please visit: humber.ca/policies/gender-diversity-policy

If you have any questions about the Policy please, please contact Nancy Simms, Director, Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity at nancy.simms@humber.ca

I’m pleased to announce the appointment of Tatiana Jennings as program co-ordinator of Humber College’s Theatre Performance program where since 1999 she has taught courses in addition to creating and directing many original productions and adaptations. Tatiana is a leader in integrating new technologies into theatre and we look forward to the future of the program under her direction.

The depth and breadth of Tatiana’s training and professional experience reflect her vision for the theatre arts, and make her uniquely qualified for this position. She holds an MFA in Digital Futures from the Ontario College of Art and Design, where she was the recipient of the Digital Futures Outstanding Thesis Performance Award for excellence in research and creative practice. She holds a degree in theatre and film from Moscow’s Academy of Theatre Arts, where she also trained in dance, and she studied theatre directing with the renowned Russian director Anatoly Vasiliev. Tatiana appeared as a leading actor at the Tvorcheskie Masterskie (currently Meyerhold Centre for Experimental Theatre) and participated in the development of new actor training and rehearsal practices. Her solo performance piece Madame Marguerite played to sold-out audiences for three years, and she received an award for the best performance at the International Moscow Festival of Theatre Arts.

With Humber graduates, Tatiana co-founded Kadozuke Kollektif, an experimental theatre company, to develop and produce large-scale original work such as The Gulliver Project, Figaro, his Marriage and the Fine Art of Dressmaking; and Richard III, the Pleasures of Violence. From 2008 to 2013, Tatiana created a number of multimedia installations and performances for Toronto’s Nuit Blanche, including Dream Pandemic, The Desperate Tenderness of Hydraulic Displacement and The Fundamental Intransparency of LifeWorld.

Please join me in welcoming Tatiana to her new position.

Steve Bellamy
Dean, School of Creative & Performing Arts