Rola Koubeissy is a postdoctoral fellow and instructor in the Département d’éducation et formation spécialisées at the Faculté des sciences de l’éducation at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She holds a PhD in Educational Psychology from the Université de Montréal. She is interested in teachers’ professional development on issues related to diversity and social justice in the areas of education, intercultural pedagogy, critical pedagogy and socio-academic integration of immigrant students in a multi-ethnic context.