Felix (they/them) is the Education and Outreach Coordinator for Project 10, a Montreal-based community organization supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ youth (14-25). Their work focuses on building more inclusive spaces. They facilitate workshops with youth aimed at deconstructing misinformation, disinformation and hateful messaging being spread about 2SLGBTQIA+ communities and train people working with youth so they feel better equipped in caring for queer participants and clients.

Kelly Fritsch is Canada Research Chair in Disability, Health, and Social Justice and Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. She is co-author of Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival (2026) and We Move Together (2021), an award-winning children’s book about ableism, accessibility, and disability culture. She is also co-editor of Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada (2022) and Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle (2016). Fritsch edits the Disability Culture and Politics Series at UBC Press and serves on the editorial board of Disability Studies Quarterly.

Isabella is a passionate youth mental health advocate and community engaged researcher, advocating for transformative youth mental health resources, policy reform, and proactive care since age 16. She has produced several reports, resources, and research studies for local and national non-profits and organizations, as well as academic institutions and provincial governments across Canada. Her work centres a holistic, community-based approach to youth well-being, acknowledging the cultural, historical, and socioeconomic factors that contribute to the understanding of and approach to ‘mental health’ in Canada. She is a strong advocate for prioritizing the voices of youth and those on the frontlines, in all work which relates to supporting youth and their well-being. Isabella is pursuing a PhD in Social & Cultural Analysis at Concordia, where her research seeks to re-imagine what has been deemed a ‘youth mental health epidemic’, through the lived realities of youth navigating an insecure, demanding, and ever-changing world.

rosalind hampton works as an associate professor of black studies in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, where she studies with graduate students who share her interests in black radical thought, study and liberation struggle; narrative inquiry, life-writing, arts and creative practice.  Professor hampton conducts and supervises research that aims to support black teachers, learners, families, and communities; student agency and activism; black studies in Canadian universities; community organizing and activism; informal, nonformal and popular education; anticolonial solidarities and relations with land, liberating theorizations of blackness and cultural studies.

Gabryelle Iaconetti is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Concordia and historian of bisexual community building in Canada from the 1980s to the 2000s. Gabryelle holds a BA and MA in History from Concordia University and MISt (Master of Information Studies) from McGill University. She is also currently on the leadership team for the international non-profit Bisexual Research Group where she has led meetings and conference panels on the subject of bisexual archives and history. Their research interests lie at the intersections of bisexual history, oral history, queer space, and archives.

Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) is an Associate Professor at McGill University's Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF). She is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada: College of New Scholars. Ketchum is the Director of the Just Feminist Tech and Scholarship Lab. She is the author of several books including *Engage in Public Scholarship!: A Guidebook on Feminist and Accessible Communication, Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses, How to Organize Inclusive Events and Conferences*, and the forthcoming "Digital Queers, and High Tech Gays: A History of LGBTQ+ Cyber Activism." She is also co-editor of the anthology: *Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food with Recipes*. For more, check out alexketchum.ca.

Natalie Kouri-Towe is an Associate Professor of feminism and sexuality at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec. Her research has been published in both academic and non-academic venues on topics related to affect theory, solidarity, kinship, queer activism, trigger warnings, gender and sexuality pedagogies, masculinity, and responses to war in the Middle East. She is currently working on a book manuscript on feminist and queer solidarity under neoliberalism titled Solidarity at Risk.

Geneviève Pagé is a scholar and an activist. Professor of political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal, her fields of research include feminist theory, political theory, social movements (feminist and LGBTQ) and feminist pedagogies. She co-edited a special issue of Recherches féministes on feminist pedagogies. She also worked in partnership with Quebec Native Women to decolonize the curriculum and center indigenous knowledge in university settings by constructing two Indigenous-lead courses, one in the political science program and one for Indigenous women leaders in their community. She is currently collaborating on a study on the best pedagogical practices for teaching sex ed in schools, one of her long-lasting interests.

Carrie Rentschler’s research focuses on feminism, student organizing, media activism, gender violence, technology studies, type 1 diabetes and data intimacies, and the politics of care and witnessing. She is author of Second Wounds: Victims’ Rights and Media in the U.S. (Duke, 2011) and co-editor of Girlhood and the Politics of Place (Berghahn, 2016).   

Dr. Julia Sinclair-Palm (they/them) is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, where they serve as the Director of the forthcoming Robert Quartermain Centre for SOGI‐inclusive Excellence in Education (RQCSIEE). Their research examines how young people forge new identities, imagine futures and navigate structural inequalities in the midst of larger, and sometimes restrictive narratives about childhood and youth.

Trimble is Associate Professor, Teaching Stream at the University of Toronto’s Women and Gender Studies Institute, where she is currently serving as Associate Undergraduate Director. She teaches courses in the field of feminist cultural studies and is the faculty lead for an experiential learning and teacher-training initiative called Feminist Sports Club. Trimble’s first book, Undead Ends: Stories of Apocalypse, is available from Rutgers University Press. Notable recent essays are included in the collections It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (2022) and Reading the Room: Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom (2024).

Alissa Trotz is Professor of Caribbean Studies and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also affiliate faculty at the Dame Nita Barrow Institute of Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Barbados.  Her work is situated within a Caribbean feminist tradition, and draws on a transnational approach to social reproduction to think through histories and processes of dispossession and their contemporary manifestations. Her current research looks at diaspora, indigeneity and extractivism in the Caribbean. She is editor of a weekly newspaper column in the Guyanese daily, Stabroek News.

Ardath Whynacht is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Mount Allison University. Her work explores connections between mental health & wellbeing, violence and movements for social transformation. She has published work on youth mental health, transformative justice and creative approaches to research and pedagogy. You can read more about her work at: www.ourpublicsafety.ca or www.imaginingfutures.ca.