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 […]
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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 […]
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.
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 […]
Miki Sato is a Japanese-Canadian illustrator who uses a variety of different papers and fabrics to create layered, three-dimensional illustrations. Born and raised in Ottawa, she currently resides in Toronto, where she attended the Ontario College of Art and Design to study illustration.
Levyi-Alexander J. Love is an artist born in Toronto, Ontario. He is a dude who loves to have fun, kick-back and make sick art. His passion for music and poetry really comes from a deep need to be seen, heard and understood by an entity that can hold him as he evolves and searches for […]
Elaine Dewar—author, journalist, television story editor—has been honoured by nine National Magazine awards, including the prestigious President’s Medal, and the White Award. Her first book, Cloak of Green, delved into the dark side of environmental politics and became an underground classic. The Second Tree: of Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality, won Canada’s premier literary non-fiction […]
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a non-binary femme disabled writer of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician Romani ascent. They are the author or co-editor of nine books, including (with Ejeris Dixon) Beyond Survival, Tonguebreaker, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and Bodymap. A Lambda Award winner who has been shortlisted for the Publishing Triangle […]
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 […]
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.
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. 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
Martha Bátiz is an award-winning writer, translator, and professor of Spanish language in literature. She is the author of four books, including the story collection Plaza Requiem, winner of an International Latino Book Award, and the novella The Wolf’s Mouth, winner of the Casa de Teatro Prize. Born and raised in Mexico City, she lives […]
