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Georgina Alonso
Georgina Alonso is a PhD candidate in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is a mixed Afro-Cuban and white Canadian settler who grew up in Grey County, Ontario.
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Lindsey Bacigal
Lindsey Bacigal is a Chickasaw/Irish/Polish Indigiqueer. She is the communications director at Indigenous Climate Action.
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Jen Bagelman
Dr. Jen Bagelman is a lecturer in geography at Newcastle University, U.K. Both her activist and academic work is committed to supporting anti-colonial environmental migrant justice. You can contact her on Twitter at @bagel_woman.
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Paula Bogdan
Paula Bogdan is a writer living on Treaty 4 territory in Regina. She can be found on Twitter @paulatoboggan.
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Emilie Coyle
Emilie Coyle is the executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies. She previously worked as director of the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program at the University of Ottawa. Emilie has practiced family, criminal and immigration law. In addition to her professional accomplishments as a bilingual legal professional and not-for-profit advocate, Emilie was a co-founder of Parents 4 Diversity, a citizen’s group working with parents and teachers to address discrimination with the goal of making schools safer for all children and youth and a proud sponsor of LGBTQ+ refugees for many years. She lives with her partner Adam and her children Maia and Niko and loves a good book recommendation.
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Saima Desai
Saima Desai is the editor of Briarpatch Magazine. She’s a settler living on Treaty 4 territory, and her family is originally from Gujarat, India.
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Laurence Desmarais
Laurence Desmarais is a Montréal-based community organizer and PhD student at Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
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Ella Hartsoe
Ella Hartsoe is a Puebla Nahua with family in Washington, D.C. and Zacatlán, Mexico. Their graduate work at the University of Toronto focuses on global climate justice and international law.
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Kris Hermes
Kris Hermes is an activist, author, and freelance journalist, who has provided legal support to land defenders since March 2018.
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Claire Johnston
Claire Johnston is a Red River Métis woman with English, Swedish, and Scottish settler ancestry. She is grateful to currently live as a visitor on the unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation in so-called Canada’s capital.
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Shawn Johnston
Shawn Johnston is a Two Spirit Anishinaabe originally from Couchiching First Nation. They are an award-winning photographer and currently reside along Deshkan Ziibii in so-called London, Ontario.
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Daniel Sarah Karasik
A writer in Toronto, Daniel Sarah Karasik (they/them) organizes with Artists For Climate & Migrant Justice and Indigenous Sovereignty, among other groups.
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Grada Kilomba
Grada Kilomba is an interdisciplinary artist and writer, born in Lisbon and living in Berlin. Her work draws on memory, trauma, race, gender, and the decolonisation of knowledge. She is the author of Plantation Memories and co-editor of Mythen, Masken und Subjekte (2005), an anthology on Critical Whiteness Studies.
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Catherine Lafferty
Catherine Lafferty, whose Dene name is Katłįà, is a Dene woman from the Northwest Territories. Previously serving as a councillor for her First Nation, Yellowknives Dene, she is an activist, poet, columnist, and law student in Indigenous legal orders. Katłįà writes about Indigenous injustices with a focus on the North.
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Henry Lee Heinonen
Henry Lee Heinonen is a writer and ethnographer in Toronto, Ontario. He runs the Deathnography network on social media, which now includes a podcast about anthropology and politics.
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Xicotencatl Maher Lopez
Xicotencatl Maher Lopez is a Two-Spirit Tlaxcaltec Nahua and Newfie, based out of Treaty 3 territory. He is an advocate for Indigenous sovereignty, and when he is not writing about Indigenous issues he is an artist and Che Guevara enthusiast.
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Haseena Manek
Haseena Manek is a journalist based in Ottawa.
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Maya Menezes
Maya Menezes is an organizer and campaigner based in Tkaronto. She is the program director at The Leap and works with organizations and revolutionary collectives north and south of the medicine line. She does not believe in borders, is in solidarity with land defenders, and her spice of choice for eating billionaires is garam masala.
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Hawa Y. Mire
Hawa Y. Mire is a critical writer, strategic senior leader, and community organizer based on the Indigenous lands of Tkaronto/Toronto. You can follow her on Twitter @HYMire.
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Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay
An immigrant who made Tio’tia:ke (Montréal) home, Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay is a family doctor in Eeyou Istchee (the Cree territories of James Bay). He is co-coordinator of the Canadian chapter of the People’s Health Movement, and a volunteer physician for the Montreal programs of Médecins du Monde.
