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Dr Lisa Everitt has worked as an executive staff officer with the Alberta Teachers Association since 2006. Lisa has held several roles at the Association and has developed expertise in labour relations, employee benefits plans, educational research, and women in leadership. Prior to joining the Association, Lisa taught high school mathematics in the Northwest Territories and Alberta. While Lisa’s interest in compassion fatigue, emotional labour and educator burnout includes an academic perspective, it also has been informed by her work as a teacher working with vulnerable young people as well as her experience assisting teachers and school leaders struggling with mental emotional health.