Vanessa Woodacre is an experienced educator at NBCC with a strong commitment to inclusion and culturally responsive teaching. With a background in industry of supporting students with special needs, mental health challenges, and international learners, she has cultivated a deep understanding of how diverse experiences shape learning.

Vanessa has studied languages such as American Sign Language and Arabic to better connect with her students and foster belonging.  She has a B.A, B.ed and M.ed and a current teaching licence in Ontario and New Brunswick, with over 20 years of experience in education.  Vanessa teaches in the School of Arts, Community and Protective services in the Social Services and Community Worker Program, along with the Human Services Practitioner Program.

While in Finland, Vanessa connected with Finnish Moomin folklore, she is truly a moomin mama. She is also a mother of two wonderful humans, two cats, a doodle dog, 30 chickens and 6 ducks.  When not teaching her lessons with vim and vigor, she loves to engage in all aspects of homesteading with her husband. She moved to Green Mountain, NB, in 2021 and will forever have a green thumb. On the off chance, Vanessa is not teaching, she can be found in her garden battling the bugs, burning fingers while canning or preserving the harvest or getting tangled up in knitting or reading. Removing barriers for equitable education spaces by instilling a drive for advocacy in terms of better policy, practice and people is her educational ethic.