Linnea is a Ph.D. candidate in the School and Applied Child Psychology program (SACP) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is a settler who grew up in southern Ontario, on the lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples.

Linnea has been working in education for over ten years and is passionate about equity in education, social justice, and Truth and Reconciliation. Before beginning her graduate studies, she trained as a secondary school teacher with a focus on global development studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She then lived and taught abroad in Melbourne, Australia, for three years before moving to Vancouver to pursue her graduate studies. During her degrees in SACP, she has worked in community mental health clinics, schools, university clinics, the British Columbia Children’s Hospital, and private settings to deliver psychoeducational assessments and interventions to children, adolescents, and their families with behavioural and neurodevelopmental differences as well as mental health challenges. 

She is passionate about advocacy work and serving diverse communities. Linnea is a founding member of the Committee for Critical Social Justice in School and Applied Child Psychology and is co-chairing the Inaugural Conference on Critical Social Justice in Psychology at UBC.