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David Gauntlett

David Gauntlett is a Canada Research Chair in The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University. Author of several books, including Making is Connecting and Creativity. He is the founder of TMU’s Creativity Everything Lab and the principal investigator of this project.

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Fiona P. McDonald

Fiona is an Assistant Professor of Visual Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. Her broader research focuses on sensory ethnography and research-creation to approach current issues related to climate justice and social change.

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Natalie Alvarez

Natalie is Dean of Scholarly, Research and Creative Activities and Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies in the School of Performance at Toronto Metropolitan University, with research specializations in performance studies, art activism, and scenario-based pedagogy.

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Ashley Jane Lewis

Post-doctoral Fellow at the Creativity Everything lab, Ashley Jane Lewis is an internationally-celebrated creator, researcher and thinker at the intersection of art, technology, nature and social justice.

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Luísa Cruz

Researcher and Project Manager on the SSHRC-funded Practices of Knowing project, Luisa Cruz is a graduate of the joint MA Communication and Culture program at Toronto Metropolitan University &York University.

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Julie Marsh

Julie Marsh is an artist-filmmaker, practice-based researcher, and educator. At the core of her research lies a collaborative approach to arts-based research conducted at both local and global scales.

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