Sheila Sampath has been crafting creative for social good since 2003. Former chair of the board at the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multi-cultural Women Against Rape, she has a background in grassroots anti-oppression activism, which she incorporates into her strategic approach to graphic design and popular education as principal and creative director at The Public (www.thepublicstudio.ca)…
Thea Lim is a writer and a cultural critic focusing on the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and pop culture. Her work has been published by the Guardian, Salon, Bitch Magazine, Jezebel, the Utne Reader, Canadian Women’s Studies\les cahiers de la femme, and in multiple university textbooks, including Opposing Viewpoints: Canada and Canadian Content. She has been cited by the Christian Science Monitor, the Atlantic and Roger Ebert. She…
Rukhsana Khan is a well-known Canadian children’s author who focuses on telling tales of diversity. Since she was a child, Rukhsana Khan dreamed of being a writer. There was just one catch: “I thought writers were white, and I was brown,” the now 46-year-old Khan recalls with a laugh of her days growing up in…
