Anne Spice is a Tlingit member of Kwanlin Dun First Nation, acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at X University and an Associate Fellow at the Yellowhead Institute. They have been actively supporting Indigenous land re-occupations since 2015, and their work dwells in the intersection of Indigenous geographies, histories and […]
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Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware is a Vanier scholar, visual artist, activist, curator and educator. Using painting, installation and performance, Syrus explores social justice frameworks and black activist culture. His work has been shown widely across Canada in solo and group shows, and his performance works have been included in local and international festivals. Author of picture […]
Anne-Rachel Schiffmann brings 25 years of design experience to her position as Director at Snøhetta. Her expertise anchors a range of award-winning projects, including the Calgary Central Library, the Ryerson University Student Learning Center and the SFMOMA Expansion. She is currently leading design efforts for the Summit One Vanderbilt Observation Deck in New York City, the Burnside Tokyo restaurant and art space, a cottage on Lake Muskoka and Snøhetta’s ongoing work re-envisioning Ford Motor Company’s R&E campus in Michigan. Anne-Rachel is a registered architect in New York and a member […]
Sarah Ham is a student and writer whose natural habitat is the library. They are currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree with an English and History double major and a Greek and Roman Studies minor at Carleton University. As a member of Library and Archives Canada’s Youth Advisory Council, and a long-time volunteer […]
Ann Dixon serves on the board of Friends of the Homer Library and helps to operate BOB (Books On Board) the Bookmobile, after many years as a librarian in Alaska. As one of a team of volunteer drivers and bookmobile librarians, she is fulfilling a longstanding dream of bringing books directly to children in underserved […]
Errol Sharpe is a publisher at Fernwood Publishing. He holds an MA in Atlantic Canada Studies from Saint Mary’s University. He is the author of A People’s History of Prince Edward Island (1976) and a co-author of In Pursuit of Justice: Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op and the Fair Trade Movement (2014), and Milton Acorn: […]
Bilal Hashmi is a translator working in English, French, Persian, Hindi and Urdu. He is President of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada/Association des traducteurs et traductrices littéraires du Canada and was recently named Executive Director and Publisher of Quattro Books.
Jessica Moore is an author and literary translator. Her first book, Everything, Now, is a love letter to the dead and a conversation with her translation of Turkana Boy by Jean-François Beauchemin, for which she won a PEN America Translation award. Mend the Living, her translation of the novel by Maylis de Kerangal, was nominated for the 2016 International […]
Rebecca Saari is an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo. She completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after working as a professional air quality engineer and as a government scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada. She is an internationally recognized expert in quantifying the impacts […]
Katherine E. Browne, PhD, is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Colorado State University. Her work as a disaster anthropologist began in the aftermath of Katrina in St. Bernard Parish, where she followed the lurching recovery of a large African American family. That work led first to the documentary film Still Waiting: Life After […]
Divya M. Persaud is a planetary geologist, writer, composer and speaker. She is a postdoctoral scholar supporting missions to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa and has been completing her Ph.D. at University College London, where she is applying 3D imagery to probe Mars geology. Divya has spoken and worked internationally on issues surrounding the historic and […]
Charles Cockell is Professor of Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh and Co-Director of the UK Centre for Astrobiology, which he established in 2011. His academic interests encompass life in extreme environments, the habitability of extraterrestrial environments and the exploration and settlement of space. He has previously worked at NASA Ames Research Centre and the […]
Jen Deerinwater is an award-winning journalist and organizer who covers the myriad of issues hir communities face with an intersectional lens. Jen is the founding executive director of Crushing Colonialism, a Disability Futures fellow and a contributor to Truthout. Hir work has been featured in a wide range of publications, including the anthology Disability Visibility: […]
Andre Morriseau, from Fort William First Nation, is an enthusiastic advocate and ambassador for Indigenous arts, culture and public affairs. Former secretariat for the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation (now Indspire) and communications officer for the Chiefs of Ontario. He chaired the James Bartleman Aboriginal Youth Creative Writing Awards Jury (Ontario Arts Council) and the imagineNATIVE […]
Etgar Keret, born in Ramat Gan in 1967, is a leading voice in Israeli literature and cinema. His writing has been published in The New York Times, Le Monde, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Paris Review and Zoetrope. Keret resides in Tel Aviv and lectures at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev as a Full professor. He has received the […]
Gilad Cohen is an Israeli-Canadian Toronto-based artist, public speaker and advocate for human rights. Since 2008, Gilad has worked as a community mobilizer with a focus on connecting audiences to urgent and compelling stories through multimedia arts. In 2012, Gilad founded JAYU, an award-winning Toronto-based charity that serves the arts community through the annual Human […]
