Adam Baden-Clay

Adam Baden-Clay

Program Teaching Staff

Adam joined the Coady Institute as Youth Programs Coordinator in 2011. In 2014, he briefly stepped into the Education Programs Coordinator role and then returned as Manager, Youth Leadership Programs, before transitioning in 2022 to his current role as a Program Teaching Staff member, with key focal areas in adult education, facilitation, and participatory project planning and management.

Adam brings over 25 years’ experience in such areas as new project development and management, Australian Indigenous development, and youth leadership development. Before coming to Coady, Adam managed a livelihoods & community engagement adult-ed. residential program for young Indigenous men in northern Australia, and before that facilitated experiential learning and volunteer opportunities in East Africa for North American youth. He previously served in the Australian Army, including a peacekeeping deployment with the UN to East Timor.

Adam has a Master of Adult Education, with a focus on supporting youth leadership for social change, a Post-Graduate Certificate in International and Community Development, a BA (History), an Advanced Diploma in Management, a Diploma in Personnel Administration, and a Certificate in Vocational Instruction. He is also a Coady grad, having completed a certificate in Facilitation and Training Approaches for Community Change (FTACC).

Adam was the 2020 recipient of the StFX Outstanding Staff Teaching Award.

In 2024, Adam was elected to the Council of the Municipality of the County of Antigonish.

St. Francis Xavier University and Coady Institute stand on the lands of Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded home of the Mi’kmaw. We express our deep gratitude and appreciation to the generations of Mi’kmaw who, since time immemorial, have loved and stewarded these lands and the beings who call them home. Colonization is not just history; it exists in the present tense. While we strive to decolonize ourselves and our University, we know there is still much for us to learn.

We are committed to doing the hard work of self-reflection and to repairing relationships with the Mi’kmaw on whose lands we reside, including embracing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action and embodying their spirit in our plans to move forward with our University.

Ms~t wiaqpulti’kl ankukamkewe’l
We are all treaty people.

Coady Institute
St. Francis Xavier University
4780 Tompkins Lane
PO Box 5000
Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5
Canada

Phone: (902) 867-3960
Phone: 1-866-820-7835 (within Canada)
Fax: (902) 867-3907

Quick Links
News and Events
Careers at Coady
Education Programs
Contact Us
Marie Michael Library
StFX
Privacy Policy

Stay Connected

Click here to sign up to receive our newsletter and for information on upcoming events and course offerings.