Wana Udobang is a multi-disciplinary storyteller working at the intersection of writing, poetry, performance and film. She has three studio albums Dirty Laundry, In memory of forgetting and Transcendence, which interrogate memory, familial bonds, healing and joy. She has been commissioned by Edinburgh International Festival, Deutsches Museum and ThankYou Australia as well as performed across Africa, Europe and North […]
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Lady Vanessa is a Caleña, Colombiana. She lives in the Valle del Cauca, Calima region and is a visitor on Turtle Island. Lady Vanessa was born as a poet in Windhoek, Namibia. She is a multidisciplinary artist choosing to learn from as many mediums to her messages of healing across. Her workshops, motivational speeches, and […]
Alicia Sometimes is an Australian poet, writer and broadcaster. She has performed her spoken word and poetry at many venues, festivals and events around the world. Her poems have been in Best Australian Science Writing, Best Australian Poems and more. She is director and co-writer of the art/science planetarium shows, Elemental and Particle/Wave. Her TedxUQ talk in 2019 was […]
David Delisca, born in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, raised in West Palm Beach, Florida and residing in Scarborough, is a writer, poet, actor and humorist. A versatile artist, he uses stories about the immigrant and diasporic experience, as well as other various human realities, to bridge realms of communication. His works and performances have been featured in […]
Dr. Kate J. Neville is an Associate Professor in environmental politics at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed to the Department of Political Science and the School of the Environment. She is the author of Fueling Resistance: The Contentious Political Economy of Biofuels and Fracking.
Safura Abdool Karim is a public health lawyer and senior researcher at the Wits School of Public Health. She is also a member of the Africa CDC’s African Vaccine Delivery Alliance. Safura completed an LLB at the University of Cape Town and an LLM in Global Health Law at Georgetown University. She is currently pursuing […]
Dr. Maxwell Smith is a Bioethicist and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University. Trained in philosophy, bioethics and public health, Professor Smith’s research and writing examine the ethical issues that emerge when preparing for and responding to pandemics. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was appointed to Ontario’s COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution […]
Dr. Ananya Tina Banerjee is Assistant Professor of South Asian descent at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupation Health, McGill University. Her interdisciplinary research embeds a strong emphasis on community-based participatory pedagogy and research, which is grounded in collaboration and partnership with her racialized students and their communities. She created and developed the first course on race […]
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, […]
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 Global Director of The Shift, an international human rights organization focused on housing, finance, and climate. She was UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing and is a world expert on human rights and housing. She has visited hundreds of people in their homes worldwide and engages with activists and decision […]
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 […]
