Brent Saccucci (they/he/she pronouns) is an award-winning equity consultant and master teacher with over a decade of experience transforming classrooms, workplaces, and communities into spaces of authentic belonging and dialogue across difference. Known for blending deep compassion with evidence-informed strategies — and just enough stand-up comedy energy — Brent brings people together across political, cultural, and social divides.

Currently an Educational Consultant with Dr. Shelley Moore and OUTreach Southern Alberta, Brent has trained thousands of learners across Canada, leading over 100 workshops on equity, gender and sexuality inclusion, and anti-oppressive practice in settings as diverse as police services, churches, early childhood education, and postsecondary classrooms. Brent is a master teacher who translates leading-edge research into practical, implementable strategies that move organizations beyond performative diversity and toward real, sustainable change.

With a teaching background spanning K–12, postsecondary, and organizational consulting, Brent has served as a high school humanities teacher, district equity consultant, school counsellor, and university lecturer. Brent has taught pre-service teachers at the University of Alberta, UBC, and now as a faculty member in the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge, where they teach gender and sexuality studies, curriculum and critical literacy, and the sociology and philosophy of education.

With three degrees in education (and a doctoral degree in progress) Brent is master teacher who is always perfecting his instructional craft through research-informed strategies. He holds a BEd and MEd from the University of Alberta, where he was awarded the Lou Hyndman Glenora Scholarship, the highest scholarship awarded to student leaders. Brent also holds an MA in both Curriculum & Pedagogy and Sexual Diversity Studies from the University of Toronto’s OISE, where they were awarded a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship. Currently completing doctoral studies at Western University in Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice Education, Brent’s research focuses on how schools and organizations can create brave spaces for dialogue across values, identities, and ideologies — always centering dignity, curiosity, and care.

A former Ontario Graduate Scholar and Canada Graduate Scholar, Brent has received over $160,000 in research and teaching awards for his leadership in equity education. Brent’s scholarship has been published and presented in forums such as the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Society for Teaching & Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), and the Chair in Transgender Studies Conference at the University of Victoria, the latter where he presented on teaching transgender inclusion in rural Alberta’s bible belt.

At the heart of Brent’s work is a belief that equity is not about getting people to agree — it’s about building communities where people feel respected, even when they don’t fully understand each other. Through energetic facilitation, research-based frameworks, and participatory, learner-centered teaching, Brent helps teams, classes, and organizations move from avoidance and defensiveness to courageous, democratic dialogue.

And yes — she’ll help you figure out the pronouns thing, too.