Lisa CampbellLisa Campbell is working on her Master of Environmental Studies at York University, with a special focus on Community Arts and Media. She is passionate about human rights, fighting oppression, and building beautiful, fluid, alternative structures that are nurturing to people and the environment.

Nayani ThiyagarajahNayani Thiyagarajah is a journalism student at Ryerson University, who is also minoring in political science. She hopes to one day to work as both an international and investigative magazine journalist. Though she seems shy at first, that does not stop her passion to say something through her writing and desire to create change in the world - no matter how large or small that change may be.

Margarita Osipian
Margarita Osipian is currently a student in the M.A program in English at the University of Toronto. She is involved in activist work around women’s issues in her community and has a strong interest in resistance cultures. In her spare time she loves to swim and ride her bike around the city.

Erin VahidiErin Vahidi attends Ryerson University for Arts and Contemporary Studies. She feels that expression and creativity are essential to positive change both personally and on a global level and hopes to open her own Art Therapy clinic in the future

Kasia MychajlowyczKasia Mychajlowycz is a student of English at Trinity College Dublin. Her favourite artists/activists include Virginia Woolf (writer of A Room of One’s Own), Barbara Kruger (mixed media visual artist), the Guerrilla Girls (women armed to the teeth with art and humour) and all the ladies of the Editorial Collective.

Seyi FolukeSeyi Foluke is currently pursuing her Social Work degree at York University. She is an aspiring writer who is passionate about social change and reflects that in every area of her life. When she is not circulating petitions, writing or studying, she is listening to music or out with friends.

Aletheia ChiangAletheia Chiang is a lover of words and of pictures and of sounds. In high school, she was the editor-in-chief of her school newspaper and spent her Tuesdays after school interning at a local community radio station. Aletheia’s written work has appeared in publications such as The Toronto Star, The Halifax Herald, Young People’s Press, and Shameless Magazine. Her produced work has aired on CKLN 88.1 FM. During her spare time, Aletheia makes crazy zines and nurtures her love for all things French. She is also a self-professed grammar nazi who occasionally – occasionally – splits the infinitive. Aletheia will be studying first-year Biochemistry at the University of Waterloo in September of 2007.

Thalia FelbertThalia Felbert is a Toronto based artist who has enjoyed the chance Forum has given her to work with a diverse range of stories, articles, poetry, etc. Presently, she is organizing a sociable environmental art event. Anyone out there who creates eco-art email: tfelbert@gmail.com.

Beth MontgomeryBeth Montgomery, a self-proclaimed photographer and wizard, started exploring activism in high school. Beth is an active member on the Buddies in Bad Times Queer Youth Program, an alumnus of the Ontario Secondary School Association.

Laura Read