Karen B. K. Chan (aka BK) is a diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) subject matter expert and an award-winning educator with more than 25 years of experience. Above all, BK is dedicated to having difficult conversations that are real, transformative, and kind.

Known for her accessible style and sense of humour, BK integrates curriculum content into stories, and theory into practice. She works with individuals, groups, and organizations, and trains professionals across disciplines.
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In addition to being a DEIB professional, BK is a sex and emotional literacy educator. BK’s YouTube video Jam is used as a teaching resource internationally, and her chapter on the importance of creative play was part of the AASECT 2014 Book of the Year. BK’s work has also appeared in Toronto Book Award finalist Any Other Way (Coach House 2017), Sexology International, the Tete-a-Tete, and Action Canada’s national education manual.

BK has training in Creative Facilitation, Productive Thinking, Non-Violent Communication, and is a facilitator for YES!, which hosts intensive gatherings for social changemakers worldwide. These influences, and more, shaped her favourite ways to learn and teach: through stories, metaphors, diagrams, and things that make people laugh.

Aside from “synchronous” DEIB work via workshops and webinars, BK has also been the author, co-author and peer reviewer on multiple eLearning modules including DEIB fundamentals, Allyship, Emotional Intelligence and Cultural Competence.