Leonie Sandercock

Who is Leonie Sandercock?

Leonie Sandercock, born in Adelaide, Australia, has been teaching at the School of Community & Regional Planning at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, since 2001. Sandercock has an MFA University of California at Los Angeles, a PhD, Australian National University and a BA, University of Adelaide. She has served as a senior academic in Australia at Macquarie University, RMIT University and the University of Melbourne, as well as UCLA. Sandercock is married to John Friedmann.

Leonie was professor and head of graduate Urban Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney from 1981- 1986 before moving to Los Angeles, where she had two careers, one in screenwriting, the other teaching in the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCLA, both of which were life-transforming experiences. Since moving to Canada and working on a documentary with two First Nations in north central BC, Leonie's interest has shifted to Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations in Canada and other settler societies.