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Jordan Carrier is a proud nêhiyaw-iskwêw (Plains Cree woman) from Regina, Saskatchewan, and a member of the Piapot First Nation in Treaty Four. In 2002, she moved to Ohronwakon/Hamilton, where she has built her life. Jordan is a dedicated mother to her twin teenage boys, Mahingan and Nikik, and a loving kokum (grandmother) to her spirited three-year-old granddaughter, Lilith. She enjoys volunteering in her community and expressing her creativity through beadwork and sewing. She uses she/her pronouns.

Jordan holds a Diploma in Native Community Care from Mohawk College, a Bachelor of Education in Aboriginal Adult Education from Brock University, and an Honours BA in Indigenous Studies from McMaster University. She will complete her Master of Arts in Social Justice and Community Engagement at Wilfrid Laurier in 2024. Jordan has worked in the urban Indigenous community of Hamilton for nearly 20 years, holding positions such as Indigenous Youth Worker at a secondary school and in Indigenous Student Services at McMaster University. She currently works with Castlemain, a full-service advisory firm dedicated to supporting the self-determination of Indigenous Nations and Peoples. Jordan’s role is specifically within the First Nations Child and Family Services and Jordan’s Principle Settlement.
Inspired by his traditional Sudanese grandmothers, Abdo embraces his responsibility to uphold his cultural values through “treaty-informed citizenship” in Canada. His work fosters ethical spaces for international and intercultural learning and respectful relationships. Born in Sudan, raised in Saudi Arabia, and now living in Canada, Abdo’s work is inspired by this cultural confluence. After earning a BA and MASc in Mechanical Engineering, he spent two years as an engineer in aerospace manufacturing. However, his commitment to truth-seeking led him to question his conventional path, and eventually quit his corporate engineering career in 2021. Now, he works as an independent scholar and community storyteller, alongside his role as a full-time Multimedia Specialist focusing on videography at McMaster University.
Ashley Marshall, M.A. English, B.A. Hons. English/Cultural Studies and Critical Theory. Ashley Marshall’s research critiques how power, economics, and politics influence social change, while advocating for imagination and creativity as alternatives to neoliberal market logics. Her recent project, Home x Work, has been praised for its phenomenological originality. This project does not perceive the city as a blank campus upon which we can experiment, but rather, aims to use collaborative measures to dissect and render visible the various social and material flows that both (re)produce hegemonic power structures and dismantle them. A full-time professor of communications at Durham College, Ashley Marshall is continuing to develop projects rooted in place-based pedagogy, urbanism, public intellectualism and equity.

Simon Orpana uses cartoons, graphic narrative, writing, and digital media to promote social, historical, and political awareness, and to help build and foster community. He is the author of Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture (Fordham, 2022), a graphic novel about climate change, and co-author, with Rob Kristofferson, of Showdown!: Making Modern Unions (Between the Lines, 2016), a graphic history about labour organizing and the 1946 Stelco strike. He is a self-taught artist with a PhD in English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University.

Mexico-Canada. Media Artist, Designer and Researcher.
Doctor in Communication, New Media and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Canada. Co-founder of Andamio.in, a collaboration platform that collides technologies with practices that mix text, visuals, and sound. She has collaborated with composers, writers, designers, and other visual artists to explore practices such as visual music, electronic literature, video experimentation, and live coding. She is the Chair of the Board of Trustees at Factory Media Centre located in Hamilton, Canada, a not-for-profit artist-driven resource centre dedicated to producing and promoting creatively diverse forms of independent films, videos, and other streaming multimedia art forms.
www.andamio.in
https://vimeo.com/jessicaarianne

Photo of Kelly WolfKelly Wolf is a Theatre Maker, a Set and Costume designer and an Artist Educator who has created designs for many theatres for over 30 years across Canada ranging from small independent companies to the major festivals.

With her Hamilton Arts Award winning, community engaged, site-specific theatre company Open Heart Arts Theatre, she has created and produced Conversations around the Table and Show Home: www.openheartartstheatre.com. The upcoming project The Lake Effect about our connections to land and water. We will engage people from various communities across Hamilton to share how we are all connected, and how we are all responsible to care for the land and water and by extension – each other.

Kelly was awarded the City of Hamilton Arts – Creator Award in 2020 and was recently nominated for the 2025 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize. Kelly is currently a Sessional Instructor and an Instructional Assistant with the Humanities Dept at McMaster, supporting all thing textile, theatre design, and production related.