John Ward

John Ward is a professor at Sydney University. He has worked in the area of disability, primary learning disabilities and dyslexia for the majority of his life. Above all, he excels at passing on knowledge that will make a difference within the diversity, equity, and inclusion fields. John has a PhD in education from the University of Ottawa, where he specializes in alternative education, Indigenous wholistic knowledge, ethics, learning disabilities and dyslexia. He is empowered by traditional wholistic knowledge as a way of building dialogue. In his personal time, he enjoys antler carving, as well as working with birch bark and publishing within Indigenous disability and inclusion areas.