Sharing her adventures and reflections in the food movement, Jo Anne explores complex food issues from a youth perspective, including the need for an innovative, integrated, empowerment-focused approach to food security and the connections between social justice, environmental issues and food production.

  Owen Temby, a political scientist, is a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University's Department of Natural Resource Sciences.

Ella Haley is a farmer, activist and assistant professor of Sociology at Athabasca University.

Katherine J. Barrett holds an MSc in Microbiology, and a PhD in Botany and Ethics, both from the University of British Columbia. She is the founder and chief for Understorey Magazine and an editor with the Afghan Women's Writing Project and Demeter Press. Katherine has published numerous scholarly articles, essays, columns […]

Allan Lissner is an award-winning photographer, videographer, editor, and graphic designer based in Toronto, Canada. Some of the organizations Allan has done work with include Amnesty International, GlobalAware, the Indigenous Environmental Network, KAIROS, Oxfam, Make Poverty History, the Norwegian Church Aid, the Ontario Council for International Cooperation, the United Nations […]

Kelley Tish Baker is a freelance writer and editor living in Ottawa.

Gleb Raygorodetsky is an adjunct research fellow with the Traditional Knowledge Initiative at United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies, and a research affiliate with the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance at the Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria in BC.

Tyrone is A\J's book reviews editor.