Hansel Igbavboa is a Creative Entrepreneur and filmmaker whose work is steeped in social innovation. You can find out more on his personal disha page: https://hansel.disha.page/
Amanda Scriver is a freelance journalist, passionate community builder, and award-winning social media strategist best known for being fat, loud, and shouty on the Internet. Throughout her career, Amanda has written for noted publications such as Healthline, Buzzfeed, Leafly, The Washington Post, Allure, FLARE, The Walrus, and Refinery 29 on body image, fat activism, mental health, and cannabis. In 2019, she was selected as one of twenty writers to attend the summer literary arts program at the ...
Nicola Hamilton is a multidisciplinary designer based in Toronto, Canada. The majority of her career has been focused on editorial design and art direction (read: she’s obsessed with magazines.) Her work has been internationally recognized by the D&AD, the Society of Publication Designers, and the National Magazine Awards, among others. Nicola is the co-founder of The Scaries Project , an artistic exploration of the emotional realities of being creative, a part-time design educator at Humber...
David Gauntlett is Canada Research Chair in Creativity at Ryerson University, Toronto, and founder of the Creativity Everything lab. He is the author of ten books, including Making is Connecting (2011, second edition 2018). Throughout his academic career he has made things, such as an award-winning website and the project A Drawing A Day , and worked with creative organizations including a 14-year collaboration with LEGO and the LEGO Foundation. In this episode we discuss the idea of everyday cr...
Katia Oloy is an artist and visual storyteller based in Los Angeles, California who believes in creating joyful designs that evoke powerful emotions while staying relentlessly curious. Having worked in entertainment, gaming, and technology industries, she's earned a diverse portfolio of experience and is focused on bringing her skills to help companies and people tell their stories in meaningful and fun ways. Katia was also kind enough to give the listeners of the podcast a free brush set that s...
Tasneem is a Canadian American multi-disciplinary artist with a focus on music, writing, and acting. Their music career started out in NYC performing at Carnegie Hall & singing back-up and playing guitar for Kelis on Saturday Night Live. Tasneem is currently a music producer mentor at Artscape Daniels Launchpad. Their EP Just Before The World Ends is out now on all streaming platforms. As a writer, they have participated in the CBS Diversity showcase, and are in pre-production for a short fi...
A self-taught multi-disciplinary artist, inspired by identity, duality, the human condition and the spaces in between – Romana experiments with several mediums to express her journey as a woman of colour in Toronto. A true artist, creator and engineer - Romana is a singer/songwriter, painter, installation artist and experience designer. As an expressionist and artist, Romana feels that it is her responsibility to use her art as a platform and voice the issues and ideas that are important to her ...
Jamie Miller is the founder of Biomimicry Frontiers, an award-winning sustainability consultancy that leverages the genius of nature to create bold solutions. He built the company after earning his PhD in engineering, which focused on applying systems-level biomimicry to urban resilience. Since 2004, Jamie has been studying and applying biomimicry with the leaders in the field. He was the director of the only biomimicry University program in Canada, is a two-time TEDx speaker and was named a “Ne...
Alia Youssef is a portrait photographer interested in diversifying the media landscape and highlighting underrepresented stories and histories. Her personal projects have been exhibited in solo and group shows at prominent galleries and festivals across Canada such as The Ryerson Image Centre, Gallery 44, The Parliament of Canada, and Nuit Blanche Toronto. Her commercial projects with global brands have been displayed internationally, including in New York’s Times Square and London’s Piccadilly ...
Jodianne Beckford is the creator and host of the popular podcast The E Project, discussing ‘Epiphany’ moments that lead individuals to do what they love. She also works as a commercial lifestyle photographer and is the creator of Noire Girls Plant, a platform to build community through educating people on the importance of nurturing plants for personal healing.
Naomi Skwarna is a Toronto-based writer and artist, having published in Hazlitt , The Hairpin , The Walrus, The Globe and Mail , Toronto Life , The Believer , and others. As an actor, she performed in Toronto and New York in Sheila Heti’s All Our Happy Days Are Stupid , and the Slamdance Festival prizewinning feature, Dim the Fluorescents. She currently works as a custom seamstress, and apprentices at Toronto’s Horses Atelier, learning about professional garment production....
Hi there! I’m Camille Favreau. I've always been drawn to other people's creations and have recently decided to experiment with creating things myself. After completing a business degree and working in finance for a few years, I am now working on the Creativity Everything Podcast, amongst other things. David Gauntlett is Canada Research Chair in Creativity at the Faculty of Communication and Design, Ryerson University, Toronto, where he leads the Creativity Everything lab. He is the author of sev...
