Rebeccah Love is a Toronto-based filmmaker, writer, visual artist and community organizer. She studied at the University of King’s College, then completed a BFA in Film Production at Ryerson University and an MFA at the University of Guelph in Creative Writing. She has produced eight short films, focusing on love, illness and neighbourhoods. These stories […]
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Kathleen Hepburn is a writer/director based on the unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. Her debut feature, Never Steady, Never Still, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was awarded Best Canadian Film and Best Director by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle, as well as Special Jury Prize […]
Andrea Warner is a writer, critic, broadcaster, podcaster and creative consultant focusing on music, arts, pop culture and feminism. She’s the author of the best-selling book Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography and We Oughta Know: How Four Women Ruled the ’90s and Changed Canadian Music. She is currently co-writing the documentary film, Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry […]
Dr. Pamela Palmater is a Mi’kmaw lawyer, professor, author and social justice activist from Ugpi’gan’jig (Eel River Bar First Nation). She has four university degrees, including a Doctorate in Law from Dalhousie University specializing in Indigenous law. She currently holds the position of full Professor and Chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University. Pam was […]
Nathan Maharaj is a lifelong bookseller. He is presently the Director of Content Marketing for Rakuten Kobo, where he oversees book blogging in multiple languages and produces the Kobo in Conversation podcast.
Randell Adjei is an entrepreneur, speaker and spoken word practitioner who uses his gifts to empower the message of Alchemy. He was recently appointed as Ontario’s first Poet Laureate. Randell is the founder of one of Toronto’s largest youth led initiatives, Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere (R.I.S.E Edutainment). In 2018, R.I.S.E received the Toronto Arts Foundation’s […]
Alan Cumming is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Not My Father’s Son and an award-winning actor, singer, writer, producer and director. He recently starred in an acclaimed one-man staging of Macbeth on Broadway, and appears on the Emmy Award-winning television show The Good Wife. He won a Tony Award for his […]
Allison Durazzi transitioned her career in marketing and policy to doctoral studies in rhetoric and professional communication at Iowa State University. She researches technical editing with a focus on conscious language and she teaches technical and business communication courses. Durazzi served on the board of numerous literary arts nonprofits, including UNECSO Seattle City of Literature, and […]
Alexander Shvarts has a BA in Russian/Sociology with Honours in Sociology at the University of Western Ontario and an MA and Ph.D. in Sociology at University of Toronto. Shvarts has done extensive research on Russian Entrepreneurs, the Russian Mafia and Russian Jews. He is a Professor at Humber College and teaches on Race and Ethnicity, […]
Shelley McCabe, M.Sc. is a Professor of Science in the Department of Liberal Studies at Humber College. She is a biogeochemist whose intellectual interests include the cycling of elements through living and nonliving parts of our ecosystems and the role that physics plays in promoting biodiversity. Professor McCabe has been involved in biodiversity research projects […]
Andrew Woods is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario, a Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right and a co-host of the Radical Thoughts Podcast. He has written several articles about conspiracy theories and right-wing politics for openDemocracy, […]
Aidan Moir received a PhD in Communication & Culture from York University in 2021. Her dissertation, “Punk, Obamacare, and a Jesuit: Branding the Iconic Ideals of Vivienne Westwood, Barack Obama, and Pope Francis” analyzes how the discourse of brand culture shapes the circulation of global leaders operating within the institutions that govern everyday life, such […]
Timothy Lem-Smith is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, completing a dissertation on paranoid reading and contemporary American fiction. His research areas include 20th/21st-century American literature and culture, race, critical theory, ecocriticism and genre. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as MELUS: Multi-ethnic Literature […]
Matthew Harris is an English Professor at Humber College. His work there focuses on developing English pedagogy and curriculum that investigates how equity, technology and critical thinking impact each other in our new digital reality. He is one of the fiction editors of the Humber Literary Review and he is a part of Humber College’s […]
Zita Babarczi is a second year PhD student at the University of Stirling, studying representations of gender in conspiracy literature from the late 1950s to the present day. She attained her English Studies BA (Hons) at the University of Stirling and a Modernities Masters in Literature at the University of Glasgow. Her research is funded […]
Sergio Schargel is a Ph.D candidate in Literature at USP, Ph.D candidate in Media at UERJ, Ph.D candidate in Political Science at UFF and master candidate in Political Science at UNIRIO. He holds a master’s degree in Literature from PUC-Rio, as well as bachelor’s in Social Communication, Journalism and Social Communication, Advertising and Marketing, both […]
Dr. Tad Tuleja, Ph.D., is a folklorist with particular interests in ethnicity, stereotyping, conspiracy theories and popular culture. Tuleja was educated at Yale, the University of Sussex and the University of Texas at Austin, where his doctoral dissertation examined the mass media “othering” of Mexico in the 1920s. As a songwriter, he received a development grant […]
Dr. Brendan Fay, Ph.D., is the Associate Professor of Library Management at Emporia State University, with broad interests in the function of information within closed societies, with a special focus on Nazi Germany. Fay’s research examines the role of conspiracy theories in helping bring the Nazis to power, consolidating rule and radicalizing policy over the […]
Ronni Abergel is a journalist and social change activist. He is the creator of the Human Library and founder of the Human Library Organization (HLO). Widower and father of two, he was born in Copenhagen with stints to the Sinai and US. He is leading the work of the HLO to embed the Human Library […]
Jams is a Tkaronto-based multi-racial DJ, poet, community artist, programmer, producer and radio geek specializing in 90s and futurist hip-hop, house, electric powwow vibes and music to move you.
Janet Rogers is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from Six Nations of the Grand River. Janet traveled throughout 2017-2019 working within numerous residencies in Vancouver BC, Santa Fe NM and Edmonton AB. Janet is based on the Six Nations territory of the Grand River where she operates the Ojistoh Publishing label. Janet works in page poetry, spoken […]
Lena Recollet is Anishinaabe from Wiikwemkoong Unceded Terrritory. She currently resides in Toronto – Tkaronto and is a multi-disciplinary artist. She received Best Spoken Word Recording at the 14th Annual Native American Music Awards. The pivotal moment where she realized she was a writer was when she made her first short film Eggs Instead, which won […]
Sarah Lewis is an Ojibwe and Cree spoken word artist from Curve Lake First Nation, Ontario. She is a proud member of the 2019 Peterborough Poetry Slam Team, as well as a national semi-finalist at the 2019 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. Most recently, she was selected as the first Poet Laureate of Peterborough, Ontario. As […]
