Dr. Emma S. Norman serves as the Department Chair of the Native Environmental Science program at Northwest Indian College, where she has been on faculty since 2002. Her writing and teaching engage with critical geographies of space, specifically decolonizing borderlands and Indigenous water governance. She is the author of Governing Transboundary Water: Canada, the United […]
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Aimée Craft is an Associate Professor at the Faculty Law, University of Ottawa and an Indigenous (Anishinaabe-Métis) lawyer from Manitoba. Craft is an internationally recognized leader in the area of Indigenous laws, treaties and water. She prioritizes Indigenous-lead and interdisciplinary research, including visual arts and film, co-leads a series of major research grants on Decolonizing […]
Linda Spalding, Kansas-born Canadian fiction and nonfiction writer, is the author, most recently, of A Reckoning, a novel published by Pantheon in March, 2018. Spalding’s novel The Purchase, published by Pantheon in 2013, won the Governor General’s prize in Canada. Spalding’s earlier novels include The Paper Wife (1996) Daughters of Captain Cook (1989) and Mere […]
Amanda Halfpenny is the Events and Program Coordinator for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. She graduated with a BA in Literature from Université Laval and then launched her career at La Maison Anglaise et Internationale, a small but mighty independent bookstore in Quebec City. She then completed her Masters in Library and Information Studies at […]
Miles Baker is the executive director of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, the world’s greatest celebration of cartoonists and the comics they create. Miles started his career in publishing at a business-to-business magazine publisher, Actual Media, following a post-graduate certificate in Publishing from Centennial College. In addition to his work on the festival, he is […]
Whitney French is a writer, multidisciplinary artist and publisher. She edited the anthology Black Writers Matter a collection of creative nonfiction, the winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Publishing 2020. Having worked as both a developmental and acquisitions editor, French is now the cofounder and publisher of Hush Harbour, the only Black queer feminist […]
Dr. Kaitlin Schwan is Director of Research for The Shift, an international movement to secure the right to housing. She is a Senior Researcher at the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and teaches social policy at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Social Work, where she is appointed Assistant Professor, Status Only. She also co-leads the […]
Zara Rahman (she/her) is a spoken word artist, nonprofit founder and community leader. Through written and spoken word poetry, Zara has shared stories with audiences up to 2000 and in more intimate settings. She has been featured on CBC News and the Toronto Star for her community involvement. Zara, founder of the international nonprofit organization, […]
Born and raised in Tkaronto with a diverse cultural background that grounds her in her poetry and life is Shahaddah Jack. The 17-year-old bilingual spoken word poet, performer, emcee, human rights activist, arts facilitator and student of life takes a poetic stance on human rights and social justice in her work. Her poetry speaks to […]
Khiem Hoang (he/they) is a writer, community facilitator, researcher in training and wannabe musician with an obsession for shawarma and counterculture. His work seeks to question our realities and ponder radical possibilities. He cares deeply about celebrating a multiplicity of perspectives, improving our conditions and being “heavy metal” (whatever that means). You can find him […]
Adrian Todd Zuniga is the author of the debut novel, Collision Theory (Rare Bird Books, 2018), a Foreword Indies Finalist for Fiction and a St. Louis Post-Dispatch best-seller. He’s the host and creator of Literary Death Match, now featured in over 60 cities worldwide, and host of LDM Book Report on YouTube. A WGA Award-nominated screenwriter, he co-wrote Madden NFL […]
Ifrah Hussein is a Somali-Canadian award-winning poet and author of An Anthology of Grief or the ways a Somali Woman Loves. Ifrah was the recipient of the Best Spoken Word Artist award by the ByBlacks People’s Choice Awards 2019. Ifrah represented Canada in Paris, France and was named among the top four countries at the […]
Scott Gabriel Knowles is a Professor in the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is a historian of disaster worldwide. Knowles is the author/editor of six books—including The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America; Legacies of Fukushima: 3.11 in Perspective, co-edited with Kyle Cleveland and […]
Amy Nam is a 17-year-old from Toronto, Ontario with a deep passion for educational activism, storytelling and mental health. As the co-founder and executive director of The Reclamation Project, she strives to empower individuals from marginalized backgrounds and help people challenge their explicit and implicit biases through the organization’s publication of The Radical Magazine and #ItStartsWithYOUth campaign. […]
Dr. Shanita Brown is a Subject Matter Expert for the AAKOMA Project and a board certified licensed professional counselor, speaker, adjunct professor and trainer that fosters transformative and empowering dialogue about various forms of intimate partner violence – particularly, Black teens and women – and mental health wellness. She is a trauma specialist with over […]
Cheyanne Ratnam is passionate about equity, developing inclusive and accessible spaces and processes, and social innovation. As a social entrepreneur she has dedicated much of her time and expertise in child welfare, homelessness and interconnected systems through founding and leading various projects and immersing herself in community mobilization and amplification – from micro – systemic […]
A poet by any other name should be called Kelisha Daley, who is adamant that life is romantic, even in its mundane-ness. At the age of 26, Kelisha is an emerging multidisciplinary artist: actor, writer, designer and poet. Kelisha graduated Humber College in 2020 where she received three years of theatrical training in performative arts. […]
Mohanad Elshieky, a NYC-based stand-up comedian who made his national TV debut on Conan, and is now co-host of the I’m Sorry podcast.
Sophia Benoit, comedian and author of Well, This is Exhausting, along with writing sex and relationship advice for GQ and an advice newsletter on Substack called Here’s The Thing.
Roger Robinson, educator and author of the poetry collection A Portable Paradise, winner of the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize 2019 and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize 2020.
Thea Lim is the author of An Ocean of Minutes, which was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her writing has been published in Granta, The Nation, The Paris Review, Best Canadian Stories, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Guernica, and others. She also works as a book critic, as a story consultant for film […]
Jaquira Díaz is the author of Ordinary Girls, winner of a Whiting Award in Nonfiction; a Florida Book Awards Gold Medal; and a 2020 Lambda Finalist.
Bobby Sanchez is a 26-year-old poet musician and model. Her indigenous blood comes from Ayacucho Peru. She was born and raised in New York.
