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Oliver Childs - Photography
Oliver Childs is a Summerside based photographer with many years of teaching experience. He began teaching photography and darkroom skills at Niagara college, and has worked professionally in the fields of landscape, portrait, sports (stock car racing), commercial and stock photography as well as being an award winning fine art photographer with several past solo exhibitions. Currently Oliver concentrates on stock photography and operates a studio in Summerside. Oliver is an active member of the Summerside Redsands photography club where he regularly gives presentations on various photographic subjects, he also teaches studio lighting techniques, and is an all-around expert in his field. His work can be viewed at http://www.istockphoto.com/OliverChilds.
Shirlene O’Brien
Shirlene is a sessional instructor at UPEI. She teaches with the Arts and Education faculties, Global Issues, Academic Writing, and Political Science, a Comparative of American and Canadian Juvenile Justice Policy. She received her primary and secondary education in rural West Prince, PEI, completed two years at UPEI in the early seventies, and then migrated to Southern California where she married and raised two children. She went back to school with her kids, completing a Baccalaureate in Political Science with Honors at California State University, and a Masters of Arts in Education at Argosy University, Orange County, California. She taught at Brown Mackie College of Applied Science and substitute taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District until she moved back to PEI, the home of her youth in 2007. She has taught at UPEI and Holland College since that, and with a PEI Teaching Certificate, also substitutes in the Western and Eastern School Boards in her spare time. Her ongoing rural PEI advocacy is in the area of rejuvenating the economy and declining population by introducing post-secondary study opportunities to West Prince County, Prince Edward Island, through bringing international students to the community.
