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Ivy Shawl-Song, MEd, BPA-Human Services, Values/Ethics (child advocacy) Facilitator. Informed by her experience as an educator in child advocacy and a co-facilitator supporting survivors of familial violence, Ivy is the author and presenter of numerous workshops and presentations addressing ethics in education, research and archival practices. Ivy is a recipient of the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship and currently sits on Athabasca University's Research Ethics’ Board while volunteering in her rural Alberta community as a Commissioner for Oaths. She is also the recipient of the 2023-24 Wayne Perry MEd (DE) Student Research Award. Ivy’s social semiotic research in the MEd program is informed by the pervasive use of Crown photography of Indigenous children to inform difficult history (Canada’s residential school system) and was voted ‘People’s Choice Award’ (AU Graduate Student 2023 Conference). This research has been disseminated nationally within Canada’s archival and research ethics associations as well as provincially with First Nations University in Saskatchewan and Island Health Research Ethics in British Columbia.