EVENT: Digital Security, Precarious Knowledge Workers & Global Freedom of Expression / PROF. JOSEPH CANNATACI, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy / TOM HENHEFFER, Canadian Journalists for Freedom of Expression / TERRI MONTURE, Indigenous Rights and Labour Activist @RedIndianGirl / DAN DURACK, Director and Technical Producer, Mustangs TV...
EVENT: Remixing the Digital Archive: Black & Indigenous creators reclaim knowledge space / LIDO PIMIENTA musician, producer, artist and educator / ADULIS “CHEDO” MOKANAN, founder of The Come Up Show / DR MARK V. CAMPBELL, Banting Fellow at the University of Regina / HARINA Music curator ...
Shane is passionate about empowering individuals and organizations with the tools, strategies and skills to build their online presence, and to practice digital safety. Since 2000 Shane has worked collaboratively with clients and community, helping them achieve their goals by building and theming their own websites, creating their own private...
Kevin Yuen Kit Lo is an independent graphic designer, artist and community organizer based in Montreal. He runs the design studio LOKI, working at the intersections of cultural production and social change. Kevin designed the visual identity for solidarity conscious, bringing shape to datejie’s vision of the project, its meaning,...
Victoria is a freelance graphic & web designer who works for social & environmental justice. She is an avid social media user, and spends her time designing, teaching and supporting various social movements. She is interested in web design, education and has a background in print design. For the solidarity...
Harina is the founder of Empyrean Productions. She is extremely passionate about diversifying the nightlife scene in London. In between her radio show Fusionality on Western Radio, 94.9fm and her job as a Project Assistant at ACFOLA – Harina is constantly thinking of ways to provide London the cultural experience...
Lido Pimienta (b.1986) is a Colombian born, Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist/curator and musician. She has performed, exhibited, and curated around the world since 2002. Her work explores the politics of gender, race, motherhood, identity and the construct of the Canadian landscape in the Latin American Diaspora and vernacular. Pimienta, also...
Dr. Mark V. Campbell is Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Regina, ICASP Postdoctoral Fellow, co-founder and Executive Director of Nia Centre for the Arts in Toronto. His passions lie in both research and community development. His other research interests include; Afrodiasporic theory and culture, Canadian hip hop cultures,...
datejie founded “solidarity conscious” in the summer of 2015. As she transitioned from an intensive union role organizing freelance workers toward new projects that combine journalism, scholarship, community and social justice, datejie was searching for a concept that could express the method, frame and approach she had taken to all...