Contributors
Abbie Synan
Abbie Synan is a freelance writer focusing on finding ethical travel experiences and more sustainable living practices. She has worked remotely and traveled full time since 2013.
Afuwa
Afuwa was born in Guyana, on Karinya and Akawaio lands. Her text and images have been featured online and in publications including the Capilano Review, The Feminist Wire, Briarpatch, West Coast Line, and subTerrain.
Alex Stoney
Alex Stoney is a Gitxsan artist and photographer who, with his sister Michelle, creates and photographs large-scale artworks composed of driftwood and stones along the banks of the Skeena and Bulkley rivers.
Alicia Wallace
Alicia Wallace is a Black feminist, gender expert, and research consultant. She is the director of Equality Bahamas, which promotes women's and LGBTQ+ rights as human rights through advocacy, public education, and community management.
Alison Tedford Seaweed
Alison Tedford is an Abbotsford-based Kwakiutl freelance writer and wellness content marketer who founded Feel Better Marketing.
Amir Aziz
Amir Aziz is a Toronto-area writer with strong opinions on espresso. His work has appeared in Torontoist and The Walrus.
André LaRivière
André LaRivière is Vancouver-based sustainable food service consultant, New York-trained chef, and Winnipeg-weathered writer-broadcaster. He's also the author of The Next Course: Reinventing the Modern Urban Restaurant.
Andreanne Catt
Andreanne Catt is part of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Nations and Sicangu Lakota from Rosebud, SD. They work with Seeding Sovereignty on organizing workshops for the youth on reservations.
Angelina Ravelli
Angelina Ravelli is a student in the BCIT Broadcasting and Online Journalism program.
Anmol Irfan
Anmol Irfan is a freelance journalist and founder of Perspective Magazine. Her work focuses on gender justice, climate change, media diversity, and religion.
Anne Spice
Anne is a Tlingit member of Kwanlin Dun First Nation, a queer Indigenous feminist, anti-colonial organizer, and professor of Indigenous environmental knowledges in the geography and environmental studies department at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Annika Flores
Annika Flores is an artist from Steveston, BC.
Arlyn Charlie
Based out of Teetł’it Zheh, Arlyn Charlie is a photographer and writer. He uses his art as a tool to share his culture, traditions, and language, by giving his photos Gwich’in language titles when creating blog posts.
Ariss Grutter
Ariss Grutter co-owns leatherwork and shoe repair shop Awl Together Leather. When not fixing beloved goods, they can be found reading, bird watching, and learning wilderness crafts.
Asparagus News
Sharing the latest and greatest news from the Asparagus patch.
Barry Rueger
Barry Rueger’s writing is focused on how people live, and how the environment around them influences their choices. Particular interests include France, development, and municipal government.
Baisakhi Roy
Baisakhi Roy is a journalist based in Oakville, ON. Her work has been published in the Globe & Mail, Chatelaine, and CBC. Her areas of interest and expertise lie in the intersections of immigrant life and culture in Canada.
Bax J Ferguson
Bax is a multi-creative writer and artist, a Canadian immigrant in Mexico, and a dedicated cat dad with bylines at Esquire, Lonely Planet, Playboy, and more.
Ben Sledge
Ben is a freelance journalist from the UK who covers everything from travel and technology to veganism and professional wrestling.
Breanna Wilson
Breanna Wilson is a freelance travel writer obsessed with remote destinations and finding the world's most incredible adventures.
Brett Tryon
Writer, portrait artist, nature lover, foodie, and mom to two goofy girls. Bylines in Chatelaine, Today’s Parent, Toronto Life, Spacing, and NOW Magazine.
Brianna Sharpe
Brianna Sharpe is an Alberta-based freelancer who covers politics, parenting, climate, and LGBTQ2S+ issues. She lives on a mini-acreage with her two mini-humans, a large husky, and a taller-than-average spouse.
Bug Cru
Bug Cru is an interdisciplinary visual artist, illustrator and tattooist who comes from Scottish and Dutch white settlers to the Canadian colonial project and displaced Kanien'kehá:ka. They work to use art as a tool of agency, reflection, and change.
Caitlin Stall-Paquet
Caitlin Stall-Paquet is a Montréal-based writer, editor, translator, and occasional forest-dweller. Her work has appeared in The Walrus, The Narwhal, CBC, The Globe and Mail, Elle Canada, Canadian Geographic, Toronto Life and enRoute.
Carleigh Baker
Carleigh Baker is a nêhiyaw âpihtawikosisân/Icelandic writer and teacher who lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ilwəta peoples.
Caroline Dobuzinskis
Caroline is a freelance writer and communications professional who has worked with organizations focused on sustainability, public health, economic equity, and mental wellbeing. Her writing focuses on urban spaces, culture, and public policy.
Carolyn B. Heller
Based in Vancouver, BC, Carolyn B. Heller writes about food, drink, culture, art, and her travels. She’s the author of three Canada travel guides. Writing credits include Lonely Planet, Atlas Obscura, and Edible Vancouver Island.
Carol Patterson
Carol Patterson is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and an award-winning journalist. She’s been a pilot, an accountant, a university professor, and an avian tourism consultant, but says her best gig is writing stories about wildlif
Catherine Balston
Catherine Balston is a freelance journalist and writer based between São Paulo and London. She writes about food, travel, culture, and the arts, and has been published in Monocle, Forbes, The Guardian, and Airbnbmag.
Christina Myers
Christina Myers is a writer, editor, and former journalist. Her work, both fiction and non-fiction, has been widely published in magazines, anthologies, newspapers, and online, garnering journalism and literary awards.
Christine Wei
Christine Wei is a Taiwanese illustrator based in Canada. She is inspired by sentiment, life stories, and mark-makings. Her work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators and American Illustration.
Colleen Stinchcombe
Colleen Stinchcombe is a journalist covering the environment, health, and outdoor recreation.
Cristina Petrucci
Cristina Petrucci is a freelance writer based in rural Ontario, covering tech, food, and sustainability.
Dana Poblete
Dana Poblete is a Los Angeles–based writer focused on environmental stewardship, social advocacy, and conscious lifestyle/travel. She also loves skateboarding, the ocean, and playing outside.
Dima Yassine
Dima Yassine is a visual artist, writer, and researcher.
Doan Truong
Doan Truong is a Vietnamese illustrator and printmaker based in Vancouver, BC. Her work focuses on immigrants, refugees, and the lack of freedom of expression in her motherland.
Elie Dolgin
Elie Dolgin is a science writer specializing in biomedical research and drug discovery. He splits his time between urban Massachusetts and rural Vermont.
Emily Cooper
Emily Cooper is a Vancouver photographer and photo collage artist. Her work includes illustrations and photography for clients including the Boston Globe, the Georgia Straight, HarperCollins, and the National Film Board of Canada.
Emma Rubin
Emma Rubin is a freelance writer and journalist based in Louisville, KY.
Eric Unmacht
Eric Unmacht likes technology, media, nature, and sometimes writing about them. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Law and Business Communications Group at the UBC Sauder School of Business.
Erica Eller
Erica Eller is an Istanbul-based freelancer writer specializing in climate tech and sustainability content.
Erica Gerald Mason
Erica Gerald Mason is an Atlanta-based freelance writer. Erica’s articles have appeared in People, the Wall Street Journal, Serious Eats, Byrdie, Vanity Fair, and more.
Erin Despard
Erin Despard is a writer and gardener in Vancouver, BC.
Ferrukh Faruqui
Ferrukh Faruqui is a physician and award-winning freelance writer from Ottawa.
Francesca Fionda
Francesca Fionda is an investigative journalist and journalism instructor based in Vancouver. Follow her for research tips and Freedom of Information frustrations.
Geena Mortfield
Geena Mortfield is a Research Associate with the Climate Disaster Project and a freelance journalist. She received her BA in political science from Lakehead University and a master’s of journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University.
Glynis Ratcliffe
Glynis Ratcliffe is a journalist who writes about climate, social justice issues, and anything that involves peer-reviewed research studies. Find her in the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, The Walrus, Chatelaine, and Broadview magazine.
Hadi Madwar
Hadi Madwar is a Tkaronto-based visual designer specializing in architectural and editorial imagery. He creates images using a manual mixed-media technique that combines watercolours with fineliner pens.
Hana LaRock
Hana LaRock is a content writer, freelance writer, copywriter, and content strategist. She writes in a variety of different niches, including real estate, travel, IT, education, and marketing.
Helen A. Lee
Helen is a writer and editor from the suburbs of Chicago, IL, focusing on conservation, lifestyle, and entertainment topics.
Imari Scarbrough
Imari Scarbrough has been a freelance journalist since 2017. Prior to freelancing, she was a staff reporter at a weekly newspaper.
Jadine Ngan
Jadine Ngan is a writer and photographer whose bylines include The Walrus, Toronto Life, and Broadview. She is currently completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, where she is the magazine and features editor at The Varsity.
Janel Nail
Janel Nail is an educator, artist, and momma of two. She resides in Calgary, AB, with her family, where she juggles entrepreneurship, teaching art, and designing practical spaces for families.
Jennifer Cole
When not writing about climate change, nature, or the world of gardening and agriculture, Jennifer can be found pruning, planting, and puttering in her small but flourishing urban garden.
Jeremy Friedrichs
Jeremy Friedrichs is a Vancouver-born, NYC-living educator.
Jesse Firempong
Jesse Firempong is a writer and nonprofit communicator living on a rocky, mossy patch of Tla'amin traditional territory in BC. She lives with a rowdy bunch of humans and three sensible cats.
Jesse Kathan
Jesse Kathan is a freelance science journalist covering climate change, public health, and ecology, whose work has appeared in Hakai, Audubon, Mercury News, Mongabay, and Eos.
Jessica Carpinone
Jessica Carpinone is a baker and owner of Bread by Us bakery and espresso bar in Ottawa, ON.
Jessica Johns
Jessica Johns is a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. She was the 2021 managing editor for Room Magazine and a co-organizer of the Indigenous Brilliance reading series.
Jessie Szalay
Jessie Szalay’s writing ranges from creative nonfiction to business journalism. She writes, edits, and teaches in a prison education program in Salt Lake City, UT, where she lives with her husband, bullmastiff, and two geckos.
Joon Lee
Born in 1993 in Seoul, South Korea, illustrator Joon Lee spent most of his time reading and flipping through National Geographics, fixated on their award-winning images. In his early 20s, fell into the world of collage.
Julia Archelene Magsombol
Julia is a Filipino-Canadian freelance journalist based in Edmonton. One of her goals is to bring comfort to people through her writing. When not writing or reading, she can be found buying indoor plants, sewing clothes, and drinking instant coffee.
Jordan Mara
Jordan Mara launched Mind & Soil in 2020 to connect people with gardening's mental health benefits. Mind & Soil offers the online education and organic gardening products needed for a thriving garden, and a peaceful, restorative gardening experience.
Josie Hjermstad
Josie Hjermstad is a student in the University of Victoria Writing Program and a nature fanatic. She enjoys writing creative non-fiction and journalism, and she has work published on The Dubble.
Kat Tancock
Kat is co-founder of Rewilding Magazine (rewildingmag.com). She lives in Tkaronto.
Katharine Reid
Katharine is an Ontario-based freelance writer and editor who loves research and first-person narratives. She often covers sustainable living, eco-friendly parenting, and family travel. Find her work on CBC, Best Health, and She Does the City.
Katy Severson
Katy Severson is a food and farming enthusiast who's pretty much always on the move. Read more of her work at www.katyseverson.com.
Kevin Jiang
Kevin Jiang is a Toronto-based journalist and digital producer for the Toronto Star. He writes about science and also everything else. His background and B.Sc is in biochemistry. Check out his terrible Twitter page.
Kevin Lunzalu
Kevin Lunzalu is a co-founder of the Kenyan Youth Biodiversity Network and a columnist at The Nature of Cities, focusing on youth-led conservation work in urban spaces in Africa.
Killa Atencio
Killa Atencio shares her voice and culture in many ways: as a poet and spoken-word artist, writer, visual artist, and entrepreneur.
Kingsley Eze
Kingsley Eze is a UBC graduate student interested in the intersection of economic, social, and environmental policy. Personal passions include food, the kind of football you play with your foot, and current affairs.
Krystal Kavita Jagoo
Krystal Kavita Jagoo is a social worker, artist, and educator who prioritizes equity in all her work. Her writing has been featured in Huffington Post, Healthline, Prism, and Canadaland.
Larissa Nez
Larissa Nez is a master's student at Brown University researching the intersections of Indigenous and Black studies with critical theory, contemporary art, public humanities, and critique of collections and archives.
Laura Trethewey
Laura Trethewey writes about the ocean from unexpected angles. Her first collection of essays, exploring how humanity is connected to the sea, comes out in 2019 and 2020 from Pegasus Books and Goose Lane Editions.
Lauren Kaljur
Lauren Kaljur is a journalist who lives on the homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations with her grandmother. She’s passionate about innovation and collaboration in storytelling, and works to this end with The Discourse.
Leona Humchitt
Zux̌valaqs (Leona Humchitt) was raised to serve her community, and being a grandmother now drives her passion for this work. She attended COP26 in Glasgow as a member of the Indigenous Clean Energy Advisory Board.
Linda Barnard
Linda Barnard is an award-winning freelance food and travel writer. She lives on Vancouver Island on the traditional territories of the Lekwungen and Songhees first peoples.
Lindsay Anderson
Lindsay Anderson is a writer based out of Vancouver, BC, and co-author of FEAST: Recipes and Stories from a Canadian Road Trip. She holds a masters of food culture and communications, and her favourite thing to do is cook in the woods.
Lindsay Kneteman
Lindsay is a former Albertan who now lives in Toronto. She has two children, a dog, and chinchilla.
Lindsay Sample
Lindsay Sample is a journalist working in xʷməθkwəyəm̓, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səlílwətaɬ territory. She's an editor at The Discourse and IndigiNews where she's committed to making the journalism industry more equitable and sustainable.
Lola Méndez
Lola Méndez is an Uruguayan-American travel writer and full-time globetrotter sharing her adventures online. Passionate about sustainable travel, she has explored over 60 countries.
Lucinda Calder
Lucinda Calder is an artist and illustrator located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples—Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam nations.
Mackenzie Belcastro
Mackenzie Belcastro is an accredited holistic wellness coach, a Reiki practitioner, a novelist, and the host of The North Star podcast.
Marian Weidner
Marian Weidner is a freelance science writer based in Minneapolis, MN, whose work covers clinical medicine, public health, emerging/infectious diseases, natural sciences, science policy, biotechnology, climate change, ecology, and conservation.
Mariana Zapata
Mariana Zapata is a Colombian-American bilingual freelance writer. She focuses on sustainability, travel, and lifestyle.
Marianna Ciccia
Marianna Ciccia is a graduate of Quest University.
Matthew Gindin
Matthew Gindin is a long-time Jewish educator, independent journalist, editor, and ghostwriter. He writes the Substack Philosophy As Therapy.
Maya Kabbani
Maya Kabbani is a chemist deeply invested in sustainability and environmental causes. She is dedicated to delving into ancestral wisdom, gathering recipes, and sharing them with community.
Megan Hill
Megan Hill is a Seattle-based freelance writer. She focuses on topics like sustainability, local food, outdoor adventures, and social justice.
Megan Kwan
Megan Kwan is a queer Chinese-Canadian art director, designer, artist, and founder of Super Sensitive Studios. Her practice focuses on storytelling to explore questions of identity, grief, and belonging.
Melody Charlie
Melody Charlie is a professional photographer based out of Yuuthluithaht (Ucluelet) BC. Her work reflects the love and respect she holds for her culture and ways of life as an Indigenous being.
Michael Toledano
Michael Toledano is a filmmaker, photographer, and writer currently living in Wet’suwet’en territory. His work focuses on communities impacted by Canada’s extractive industries.
Mika Laulainen
Mika is a writer and theatre director passionate about environmental and social justice. She is mostly made of water.
Nithin Coca
Nithin Coca is a freelance journalist who covers environment and development. Coca's work has appeared in global media outlets including Al Jazeera, Quartz, Engadget, Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, and Vice.
Odette Auger
Odette Auger is Sagamok Anishnawbek through her mom, living as a guest in the Salish Sea. Recent bylines: Indiginews, Watershed Sentinel, Windspeaker, La Converse, APTN, The Tyee.
Payal Dhar
Payal Dhar is a freelance journalist writing on the intersections of science, technology and society.
Philip Tong
Phillip Tong is a painter, illustrator and photographer based in Vancouver, BC. He strives to share what he sees from his eyes and his heart through his art & photography.
Rebecca Gao
Rebecca Gao is a Toronto-based journalist interested in all things climate, food, and late-aughts teen movies. In her spare time, she can be found baking (or at least trying to).
Rebecca Ann Hughes
Rebecca Ann Hughes is a freelance journalist based in Venice who studies the impact of tourism on the city.
Rebecca Thomas
Rebecca Thomas is a Mi’kmaw woman registered with Lennox Island First Nation. She is the daughter of a residential school survivor, and an unrelenting advocate for her community. She was the Halifax Poet Laureate from 2016 to 2018.
Rebecca Tucker
Rebecca Tucker is a Toronto-based culture and lifestyle writer whose work has appeared in the Walrus, Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, and TVO, among other publications. Her first book, A Matter of Taste, was published by Coach House Press in 2018.
Roberta Laurie
Roberta Laurie teaches sustainability communication and creative nonfiction at MacEwan University. She is the author of Weaving a Malawi Sunrise.
Rosanna Nafziger Henderson
Rosanna Nafziger Henderson is car-free mama from Portland, OR. Her most recent book is The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home.
Ruth Seeley
Ruth Seeley is a corporate communications practitioner with more than 10 years’ experience in writing, strategic planning, project management/implementation, media relations, and social media strategies.
Ruth Terry
Ruth is an American freelancer based in Istanbul who writes about the intersections of race, identity, culture, food, and travel.
Safina Nabi
Safina Nabi is an independent multimedia journalist based in Kashmir. She writes on gender, human rights, conflict, health, environment, and culture in Indian and international publications, including The Guardian, Vice, and Al Jazeera.
Sana Kapadia
Sana Kapadia is a gender-equality advocate who uses finance as a tool for social change across impact investing, entrepreneurship, and blended finance. Sana is a Business in Vancouver Top 40 under 40 winner.
Sandy Ibrahim
Sandy Ibrahim would prefer to write fun and happy children's stories, but writes about raising children in the Anthropocene instead.
Sara Bynoe
When 10-year-old Sara Bynoe took paper out of the garbage and kept it in her desk because her classroom didn't have a recycling bin, her mother called her an "Environmentalist from Hell." She's been trying to make the world better ever since.
Sarah Clement
Sarah Clement is an artist, illustrator and surface pattern designer. She is infinitely inspired by nature and hopes her art instils a sense of reverence for the planet.
Sarah Kwon
Sarah Kwon is an independent journalist based in the Bay Area, covering health care.
Shailaja Tripathi
In her two decades of experience with print and electronic media, Shailaja has focused on the world of art through her writings. Based in Bengaluru, India, she remains committed to the idea of bridging the gap between art and people.
Shelley Tomlinson
Shelley Tomlinson is a freelance writer in Metro Vancouver and has worked as a reporter in Saskatchewan. When not working or reading, Shelley spends her time hanging out with her nephews and niece.
Shreya Kalra
Shreya Kalra is an independent writer based in Toronto. Her work has been published on many platforms including VICE, openDemoracy and National Geographic Traveler. She’s also a barista and yoga teacher.
Sofia Osborne
Sofia Osborne is a writer, editor, and audio producer based in Vancouver. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. Her journalism and essays have appeared in Maisonneuve, The Tyee, The Narwhal, and This Magazine.
Stella Zheng
Stella Zheng is an illustrator and a recent graduate from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her work mainly deals with her culture and identity in the Chinese diaspora.
Susan Evans
After graduating from film school, Susan Evans worked as a film editor in London, UK, before moving to Tokyo and freelancing as a writer and editor. A UBC music degree led to decades teaching piano in Vancouver, BC.
Tamara Podemski
Tamara Podemski is an Anishinaabe/Ashkenazi artist whose more-than-30-year career spans stage and screen. From children's theatre to Broadway, CBC to Amazon Studios, she tells stories that amplify underrepresented groups and marginalized voices.
Tanya Nielsen
Tanya Nielsen is the artist surrounded by scientists. She organizes marine biology conferences as a conference manager, curates art exhibitions, paints, photographs, and writes.
Taslim Jaffer
Taslim Jaffer is a freelance writer and editor with a special interest in stories about culture and identity.
Teghan Acres
Teghan Acres is a storyteller, freelance writer, and environmental communicator exploring the intersections between community, care, and circularity. She fuels her work by frequently forest bathing.
Terumi Squibb
Terumi Squibb is a photographer based in Vancouver, BC. She's passionate about Latin dance, marine conservation, memes, and creating a more anti-racist world.
Tessa Vikander
Tessa Vikander is a queer, settler, freelance journalist. She writes and reports on LGBTQ2 rights, feminism, the justice system, and race.
Tina Knezevic
Tina Knezevic is a Toronto-based science journalist who writes primarily about health and the environment. Her work has appeared in The Walrus, This Magazine, Healthy Debate, Dallas Morning News, and on TVO.org.
Tosh Sherkat
Tosh Sherkat (he/they) is a Persian-Doukhobor settler studying creative writing at the University of Victoria, in so-called Canada. He was raised in Nelson, BC, Autonomous Sinixt Territory.
Tommy Li
Tommy Li is an illustrator specializing in editorial illustration, comic books, and animation.
Trevor Jang
Trevor Jang is a writer based in Vancouver, and leads communications for the First Nations Technology Council. He has a mixed-race background of Wet'suwet'en Nation, Chinese, and European ancestry.
Wawmeesh Hamilton
Wawmeesh is a Webster Award-nominated journalist and photographer who writes about Indigenous people and communities, and reconciliation. A member of the Hupacasath First Nation, he has been published by CBC Indigenous, Globe & Mail, and The Tyee.
Whess Harman
Whess Harman is Carrier Wit’at, and works as the curator for grunt gallery. As a mixed-race, transgender artist, they work to find their way through colonial exhaustion and queer melancholy with humour and a carefully mediated cynicism.
Zuri White-Gibson
Zuri White-Gibson is a Black, Queer lover of words and community. She is the founder of UnSung Literary Magazine and co-hosts a podcast, Critiques for the Culture.
