Celeste Bickford's Bio
Celeste Bickford is a scientist with a background as an academic researcher in maternal/child health who currently works within the criminal justice system. Celeste’s interests include understanding how students’ experiences within the school system impact their health, well-being, and long-term outcomes. Evidence-based decision making is something that she advocates for. Questioning the status quo and providing alternative perspectives is an approach that she often brings to the Board table. Celeste aims to foster a system in which transparency and procedural fairness are upheld for students, employees, and the public.
Celeste brings more than two years of experience in local government as the Alternate Director for Area D of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District and is now in her second term serving as a Trustee on the School District No. 48 Board of Education.
- Name
- Celeste Bickford
- Position
- Trustee (Area D, SLRD)
- cbickford@sd48.bc.ca
- Other
- Celeste Bickford is a scientist with a background in public health, specializing in research on maternal/child health, and currently working within the criminal justice system. Celeste’s interests include understanding how students’ experiences within the public education system impact their long-term health and well-being. Evidence-based decision making (e.g. looking to the academic literature to guide the creation of policy) is something that Celeste strongly advocates for in her role as a Trustee. In Celeste’s role, she hopes to support a school system that fosters positive experiences and relationships and helps every child reach their full potential. As an immigrant to Canada, she understands the importance academic rigour and having the ability to compete academically on an international level. As the wife of a composer, she appreciates the important impact that exposure to music and art can have on a child. As a mother of two young children, she has observed first-hand how critical positive adult-child relationships and connections are. Celeste believes that we can have an enormous impact through simple interventions, such as seeing the good in children so that they can see the good in themselves and then use their strengths to make positive contributions to society, no matter what they choose to do once they leave the public education system. Celeste brings more than two years of experience in local government as the Alternate Director for Area D of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District and is honoured to now serve the community for a second term as a Trustee on the School District No. 48 Board of Education.