Tasha Ausman is a bassoonist and long-time community arts consultant in the Ottawa area.  As Personnel Manager since 2012, and former Vice-President of the Board, Tasha has worked to revitalize the musical capacity, operational efficacy, and funding structure of the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra.  A former military musician with the Loyal Edmonton Regiment and Ceremonial Guard (Governor General’s Foot Guards), Tasha is presently a professor at the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa, where her research focuses on decolonizing and anti-racist frameworks, taking a psychoanalytic stylistic to understand the dynamics of love and hate in learning.  A full-time secondary teacher for the past fifteen years, Tasha also presently works at Philemon Wright High School, where she teaches senior mathematics, chemistry and biology.  She co-directs the Hadley-Philemon band, a zero-tuition, equity-based ensemble with over fifty students aged from grade 7 to 11.  Tasha holds a BSc (Hons) in Physiology and Developmental Biology from the University of Alberta, a B.Ed (Chemistry/Biology), Master of Arts in Curriculum Studies, and a PhD in Society, Culture and Literacies (focusing on Mathematics Education), from the University of Ottawa.
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