Melanie Siebert is a therapist in Victoria, British Columbia, who works with youth and families. Her book for young readers Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health is a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize. This wide-ranging guide to youth mental health highlights diverse, trauma-informed and anti-oppressive perspectives and shares the moving, […]
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Dr. Betty Lai is an Associate Professor in Counseling Psychology at Boston College. Dr. Lai’s research focuses on how children and families respond to disasters and other traumatic stressors. Dr. Lai’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. […]
Dr. Matthew Adams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Dr. Adams obtained his PhD from McMaster University in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences, he also holds a HBECs degree and MES degree from Lakehead University. Dr. Adams’ research background is in […]
Andrew Jorgenson is Professor and Chair of Sociology and Professor of Environmental Studies at Boston College. He conducts research on the human dimensions of environmental change, with a focus on how development, inequality and the structure of global production, and trade networks contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, industrial pollution, land cover change and relationships between environmental […]
Lidia Morawska is Distinguished Professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and the Director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at QUT, which is a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization on Research and Training in the field of Air Quality and Health. She conducts fundamental and applied […]
Emily Wright is a powerful educator, advocate and public speaker. She is a member of two speaker’s bureaus and is a regular guest lecturer at various schools across the GTA. With a special ability to speak to people of all ages, Emily tries to make a difference in the world by using her personal voice […]
Juha Kaakinen is an experienced and passionate developer of innovative housing solutions to homeless people and social housing. He is Chief Executive of Y-Foundation, the biggest Finnish NGO providing housing for homeless people and social housing with a housing stock of 17 000 flats. Before, he has worked in public administration of the City of Helsinki and as […]
Leilani Farha is the Global Director of The Shift, an international movement to secure the right to housing and the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, from 2014-2020. The Shift was launched in 2017 with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and United Cities and Local Government and […]
Anne McLean studied history in London, Ontario and literary translation in London, England, and now lives in Toronto, where she translates Latin American and Spanish novels, short stories, travelogues, memoirs and other writings by authors including Héctor Abad, Javier Cercas, Julio Cortázar and Evelio Rosero. Novels she translated have twice been awarded both the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Premio Valle […]
Aalyia Sadruddin is an Assistant Professor of Cultural and Medical Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research and teaching interests focus on the critical study of health, demographic transitions and everyday practices of care in postconflict societies. Over the last decade, she has conducted ethnographic research on aging and late-care […]
Sarah Lamb is Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on aging, gender, families, ethical strivings and understandings of personhood in India and the United States. Her several books include White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender and Body in North India; and Successful Aging as a […]
Pat Armstrong is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Focusing on women, work and the health and social services, she has published Wash, Wear and Care: Clothes and Laundry in Long-term Care. She has also edited four reports for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, […]
Lenore Manderson is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology in the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her research focuses on inequality, the social context of infectious diseases and chronic conditions and increasingly, the environment in Australian, Asian and African settings. She has published extensively, including on disability and […]
Haroon Akram-Lodhi is Professor of Economics and International Development Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada.
Zoe Todd (Métis) is an expert in Indigenous perspectives on freshwater fish conservation in western Canada (specifically, Alberta). Their fish philosophy work brings together Indigenous science, art, social studies, stories and legal thinking about fish as more-than-human kin. Their current projects examine how Indigenous governance shapes and refracts western fish conservation paradigms. They are the […]
Dr. Hanna Garth is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. She has published articles in several academic journals, including American Anthropologist; Food, Culture and Society, Social Science and Medicine; and Anthropological Quarterly. Her first book, Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal, is based on ethnographic research in Santiago de Cuba, the […]
José Eduardo Agualusa is considered one of Africa’s most important writers. Both as a novelist and a reporter, Agualusa has become an important voice of his country. He has a weekly column in the prestigious Brazilian newspaper O Globo. His novel A General Theory of Oblivion was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 and was awarded the International Dublin […]
Laurian Farrell has worked in the private, public and philanthropic sectors for 20 years, focusing on resilient city building, environment and flood risk management challenges. She has applied her training in water resources engineering and landscape architecture to programs in Canada, where she is from, and more recently to 100 Resilient Cities in New York […]
Dr. Sara Mazrouei is a planetary scientist, an educational developer and a science communicator with a passion for sharing the wonders of the universe with the public. Her PhD research focused on the recent bombardment history of the Moon and links to future sample-return missions. Her work has been featured in many publications, such as, […]
Samantha Mateo is a freelancer and an emerging translator of Catalan literature. She graduated from Columbia University in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in linguistics. After working in the business translation sector for a couple of years, she attended the University of Chicago where she graduated with a master’s degree in Humanities specializing in Catalan […]
Dr. Kisha Supernant is Métis/Papaschase/British and the Director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology at the University of Alberta. An award-winning teacher, researcher and writer, she is interested in Indigenous archaeology, heart-centered archaeological practice and the uses of technology to explore the past. She is the Director of the Exploring Métis Identity Through […]
Pankaj Mishra, born in North India, graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the Allahabad University before completing his MA in English Literature at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Mishra writes literary and political essays for the New York Times, the Guardian, the New Yorker, London Review of Books, among other American, British and […]
