Early Career Teaching Excellence

The Early Career Teaching Excellence Award recognizes faculty who have less than five years of instructional experience, demonstrate teaching excellence and display ongoing development and potential for excellence in educational leadership.

Dr. Steve Lillebuen, Assistant Professor, Communication

Dr. Steve Lillebuen has been a full-time faculty member at MacEwan since July 2020. He is passionate about investigative journalism, digital media and narrative storytelling; as an academic, he is researching journalism ethics, media accountability and the future of journalism. He spent nearly a decade in Australia as a journalist for The Age and Australian Associated Press, and his work has appeared in The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Edmonton Journal and CNN.com, among other publications. As a dual Canadian-Australian citizen, he brings a number of industry and university partnerships to the journalism program for the benefit of his students.

Neetu Sharma, Assistant Professor, Accounting and Finance

Neetu Sharma has an MBA from the University of Alberta and is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CMA). Before joining MacEwan in 2018, Sharma worked in the finance and accounting fields in the U.S. and Canada for over 15 years. She enjoys sharing her passion for accounting with students.