Dr. Elisabeth Rees-Johnstone

Sep 20th, 2023

Elisabeth is the Executive Director at OISE Continuing and Professional Learning, University of Toronto, and the co-founder and current director of InnovED - the University of Toronto's first campus-linked accelerator dedicated to education innovation and entrepreneur development for education services improvement.

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