FOUNDING MEMBERS

Donna Akrey is an artist and instructor living in Hamilton. She received a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from NSCAD. Her work is multidisciplinary. She walks a lot. "For me, perambulating, whether it be walking, biking or taking the train is a method of research and image gathering. The movement connects to my mind and I see and hear and gather. It is the best studio to work out of---and the rent is cheap."
www.donnaakrey.com 

Taien Ng-Chan is a writer and media artist whose work explores everyday urban life through experimental cinema, cartography, poetry, and documentary. She has published a poetry book/multimedia CD entitled Maps of Our Bodies and the Borders We Have Agreed Upon, and two anthologies, Ribsauce and Navigating Customs, and exhibited her projects across Canada and internationally. She currently teaches media arts at York University.
www.soyfishmedia.com 

Sarah E. Truman is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Education and Social Research Institute, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her research focuses on reading and writing speculative fiction in high schools. She also conducts ongoing research on walking methodologies and public pedagogy with WalkingLab. Sarah is co-author of Walking Methodologies in More-than-Human World: Walkinglab (Routledge, 2018); co-editor of Pedagogical Matters: New Materialism and Curriculum Studies (Peter Lang, 2016); and author of Searching for Guan Yin (White Pine, 2011). 
www.sarahetruman.com