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Alexandra McCalla

Co-Founder of AirMatrix, Drone Usage

Alexandra McCalla is a super star senior consultant turned Co-Founder of AirMatrix, a drone infrastructure company that “builds highways in the skies” for drone usage revolution.

Cylita Guy

Ecologist, Data Scientist and Science Communicator

Cylita completed her PhD at the University of Toronto where she used machine learning and fieldwork to study bats and their viruses. Concurrently, as an analyst at the CBC she generated insights about the behaviour of Canadians interacting with digital news and worked to help others foster their own sense of curiosity about the natural world as a science communicator.

David Wosnick

Graduate Student, Opioids and Chronic Pain

David Wosnick is amongst thousands of chronic pain patients who have been left empty-handed in managing chronic pain. While the stigma surrounding opioids continues to inflate, Wosnick has made it his mission to educate others about what you think you know about prescription opioid medication. In breaking the mould, Wosnick sets out to show that like many others to himself, he is not your average drug user

Derek Denis

Professor of Linguistics

Dr. Derek Denis is a professor of linguistics at UTM, and his research focuses on the development of multi-ethnolects in the Canadian context. While extensive research exists on the development of multiethnolects in Europe, there is very little in Canada. More specifically, Derek’s research focuses on Toronto slang, originated mostly from Patois (Jamaican English) and Somali via Jamaica.

Elisha Lim

Author, Graphic Novelist, Focus in Social Media

Elisha Lim is a queer and transgender story-teller and graphic novelist, and is currently writing a PhD at UofT on race and social media. They have created award-winning claymation films, solo and group exhibits, curatorial projects and founded the annual anti-racist Montreal art festival "Qouleur." Lim holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Criticism and Curatorial Practice at OCAD University and is currently writing a PhD at UofT on race and social media.

Laura Rosella

Professor of Public Health and Epidemiologist

Laura Rosella, PhD, MHSc, is the Principal Investigator and Scientific Director of the Population Health Analytics Lab. Her research interests include population health, population-based risk tools to support public health planning and public health policy. Notably, Dr. Rosella was recently awarded the Brian MacMahon Early Career Epidemiology Award by the Society for Epidemiologic Research and was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40.

Matt Young

PhD Candidate in Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Matt Young is a PhD candidate in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. He has travelled to the South Pole each year since 2017 to help install and upgrade the 3rd generation camera on the South Pole Telescope, as well as research the origin and growth of structure throughout our universe.

Michelle Silver

Professor of Gerontology

Michelle Silver is an Associate Professor of Gerontology at the University of Toronto. Her research examines how perceptions about aging interact with social institutions like retirement, our own health information seeking, and our exercise habits.

Nadia Fazal

PhD Candidate in Public Health, Global Health and Decolonization

Nadia Fazal is a PhD Candidate in Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and is part of the Collaborative Doctoral Program in Global Health, at the University of Toronto. Her PhD research is based in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, a context where she has lived and worked for a large part of the last ten years. Her work in Goma is grounded in the field of global health promotion and explores the role of the arts in decolonizing approaches and discourses that can strengthen community action for health

Phil de Luna

Program Director in Clean Fuels, Low Carbon Future

Phil De Luna is a world-leading expert in clean and renewable energies, and currently serves as the Program Director, Materials for Clean Fuels Challenge Program at the National Research Council of Canada.

Rasmus Larsen

Professor of Forensic Science, Psychopathy

Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen has been with the University of Toronto Mississauga since July 2017, where he lectures in the Forensic Science Program. His main research interests are in forensic practices and the mental health sciences, exploring various issues pertaining to ethical guidelines, theoretical validation, and data annotation methods.

Victoria Nolan

Rower, Paralympian and Former Teacher

Victoria Nolan is gold-medallist rower, Paralympian, and former teacher.