Kedrick James is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia. He is the Director of the Digital Literacy Centre, a research centre focused on arts-based research and digital innovation in language based educational technologies and networks. He brings to his work a live lived in the literary scenes of Canada and the U.S. He is a poet by calling but has worked in many different media as an artist, director and producer. He is an avid audio composer and experimenter, and has worked with a wide variety of musical ensembles. He has a wide variety of publications in scholarly books and journals, books of poetry, and works in his specialization of teacher education in English Language Arts. He currently lives between the Boundary Country of British Columbia where he undertakes an ecological mission to help to preserve heritage grassland and the City of Vancouvers where, among other things such as teaching courses at the university, he is a dedicated music collector and vinyl archivist and sports a collection of over 12,000 records.