Sakura Saunders is the editor of protestbarrick.net and a member of the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network MISN).

Seth Ratzlaff studies rhetoric at the University of Waterloo, but that doesn’t mean he’s a manipulative Sophist. It more accurately indicates his enthusiasm for social and political action.

Sarah is a Naturopathic Doctor and Birth Doula working with Inspire Health and Wellness in Kitchener. She enjoys helping all her patients achieve their optimum health, and is particularly interested in improving Maternal and Newborn care, Pediatrics, Women’s Health and Aboriginal Health.

Yasmin Parodi works with a variety of NGOs and politicians to create visual communications, social media campaigns and accessible public awareness projects about a range of environmental issues and solutions.

Daryn Caister is the host and director of the environmental news radio program The Green Majority, which is syndicated on more than 21 stations and has more than 50,000 weekly listeners. Caister studied Environmental policy and Urban Studies at the University of Toronto, and is particularly interested in politics, science and […]

Ben Powless is a First Nations citizen with a degree in Human Rights, Native Studies and Environmental Studies from Carleton University. He has worked on climate change, Indigenous rights and tar sands issues with the Indigeneous Environmental Network, Defenders of the Land, Idle No More, Canadian Youth Climate Coalition and Ecology Ottawa.

Chris Turner is a Calgary-based journalist and author of four books – most recently, The War On Science: Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper’s Canada, available in stores and at Greystone Books.

At the time of writing, Douglas Vincent was a PhD student studying the works of Gary Snyder and trying to practice and reconcile the wisdom of Buddhism and environmentalism for nearly a decade.

Maxwell Hartt is a PhD student in the school of planning at the University of Waterloo where his research focuses on shrinking cities, their challenges and the corresponding urban planning response.