Michelle Lovegrove Thomson is the Senior Manager of the TIFF Film Reference Library, where her focus is on education, film preservation, and public services. In June 2019, Michelle curated the exhibition: “Film Farm: 25 Years of the Independent Imaging Retreat” at TIFF, celebrating and documenting the legacy of handmade filmmaking in Canada. She holds a BFA in Film Production from York University, and Master of Arts in English from the University of Alberta, and a Master of Information from the University of Toronto iSchool. She attended the Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute (NELI) in 2015, sits on the OLA Special Libraries Committee, and planned the 2019 OLA Super Conference Special Libraries Section.

Elizabeth Mudenyo works in event and project management rooted in community engagement. She is currently Special Projects Manager at the Regent Park Film Festival overseeing Home Made Visible, a nationwide archival project for IBPOC communities. She is also a writer with a background in film. She supports platforms for IBPOC voices through her all work, and is always collecting her tools as storyteller and organizer.

Ananya is most interested in exploring how what we say shapes who we become, especially as it applies to our ability to create inclusive and just communities through the arts. Till recently, she was the Executive Director of the Regent Park Film Festival, where she had the pleasure of being for 7 years. She continues to be the Artistic Director of the festival’s nation wide project Home Made Visible. Ananya feels very lucky to explore professionally what she studied theoretically - the intersections of community and media. She is also a part-time filmmaker and currently, a full-time mom! Most recently, she was a fellow of the Toronto Art Council’s Cultural Leaders Lab.

For over 30 years Senior Librarian Katherine Kasirer has worked at the National Film Board of Canada where she maintains a traditional library for employees, manages information about the film collection and provides research services for NFB filmmakers.

Raegan serves as the Executive Director of The ArQuives, formerly The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives. She holds a BA from Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface and a Masters of Information from the University of Toronto iSchool. She has worked as an archivist at Library and Archives Canada, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute, and as the Archival Advisor for the Council of Archives New Brunswick. She is currently working on her PhD, focusing on the role of community archives in Inuit communities. She is a member of the Steering Committee on Canada’s Archives Taskforce to respond to the “Calls to Action” Report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the co-chair of the Association of Canadian Archivists Indigenous Matters Working Group.

Nadine Valcin is an award-winning filmmaker and media artist whose practice spans documentary, experimental and narrative film as well as installation and virtual reality. Her work explores questions of memory, identity and language. She holds a professional degree in architecture from McGill University and was an artist’s residence at Library and Archives Canada through Archive/Counter Archive. She is currently in production on a documentary about Black actor/model Johanne Harrelle with funding from The Canada Council for the Arts, Telefilm Canada, the Canada Media Fund and TFO which grew out of her work with Archive/Counter Archive. Nadine is a professor in the Film and Television program at Sheridan College. 

Janine Marchessault is a Professor of Cinema and Media Arts at York University, where she was the Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media, and Globalization (2003-2013). Dr. Marchessault is the author of ten monographs and edited volumes, and over fifty articles in books, journals, and catalogues devoted to cinema, new media, and contemporary art. She is a past President of the Film Studies Association of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her recent monograph is Ecstatic Worlds: Media, Utopias, Ecologies (2017 MIT Press) and her monograph in preparation is Archival Imaginary: Expanded Memory. She is the Principal Investigator of Archive/Counter-Archive: Activating Canada’s Moving Image Heritage.

Lisa Sloniowski has multiple roles at York University as a humanities librarian in the Scott Library, as a PhD candidate in Social and Political Thought, and as a faculty member in the Graduate Program in English. Her research examines the affective labour of librarians as knowledge and memory workers, from a feminist perspective. Her most current work explores the specific archival challenges posed by two special collections: the Barbara Godard library, and an archival collection of feminist pornography

My initial career plans were to be a professional orchestral musician. When I decided that was not a path I wanted to continue to pursue, I was delighted to find a new path in music librarianship—a career that allowed me to combine my knowledge and passion for music with my love for libraries. I also discovered I have a love of classification, metadata and information systems. Something I fostered as a music cataloguer at York University and later in roles related to digital humanities and linked data. I delved further into my love of music and information with a PhD in Humanities at York where my dissertation entitled: “Fugitive Phrases: Arcade Fire, Love Song, and the Amorous Self” draws on Luhmann’s theory of love as information system to discuss the ways music supports and promotes amorous communications.

I am Citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario and I have long been active in research, and professional and community work related to social justice and equity. I am an active member of professional associations and am currently Chair of the Indigenous Matters Standing Committee of IFLA, a community lead in the National Knowledge and Language Alliance and a member of many other advisory bodies. I believe strongly in finding ways to make access to information more equitable and have been involved in open access initiatives in North America for many years with strong ties within the “open” movement. I am a very active member the Wikimedia community where I focus the bulk of my energy on Wikidata. However, I do write and edit Wikipedia articles in my spare time.

Camille Callison, Tahltan Nation member, is the University Librarian at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) and a passionate cultural activist pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Manitoba. Her research critically examines the relationship between cultural memory institutions and the continued survival and activation of Indigenous knowledges, languages, and cultures. Current professional contributions, Camille serves as the Chair of the National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance (NIKLA) and IFLA Professional Division H as well she serves on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), and as a member of IEEE P2890™ Recommended Practice for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples’ Data, OCLC Reimagine Descriptive Workflows Advisory Group, NISO Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion subcommittee and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission Taskforce on Archives. She is committed to being part of creating meaningful change related to equity, diversity, and inclusivity in the library, archival and cultural memory professions.