Carla Rice is Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Guelph. She is the founder of the Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice, a community-engaged research creation centre with a mandate to use arts-informed methods to foster inclusive communities, well-being, equity, and justice within Canada and beyond. Her current research program investigates the power of story to creatively re-imagine the human, including through decolonizing education, speaking back to ableism and weightism in healthcare, experimenting with/enacting accessible practices in material and virtual spaces, and cultivating non-normative arts in Canada. 

Christine Wilks is a digital writer, artist and developer of interactive narratives and playable media. Her digital fiction, Underbelly, won the New Media Writing Prize 2010 and the MaMSIE Digital Media Competition 2011. Her work is published in online journals, exhibitions and anthologies, including the 'Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2' and the ‘ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature’, and has been presented internationally at festivals, exhibitions and conferences. From 2007 to 2013 she was a core member of the digital arts remixing collective, R3M1XW0RX, and contributed over 100 remixes. Before working in digital media and the web, she made short films, videos, animations, installations and wrote fiction and screenplays. She has an MA in Fine Art from Cardiff Institute of Higher Education (UWIC) and an MA(Hons) in Creative Writing and New Media from De Montfort University. She is currently creating an interactive digital narrative, a psychological thriller for mobile devices, as part of her practice-based PhD in Digital Writing at Bath Spa University.

Hannah Fowlie is a non-Indigenous woman who, as the social worker at the Toronto District School Board’s Aboriginal Education Centre (AEC), has worked, side-by-side with her First Nations, Métis, Inuit colleagues for nine years. In 2012, she received an invitation to join a storytelling project entitled, inVISIBILITY: indigenous in the city with Dr. Susan Dion (Lenape/Pottawami), a professor at York University and Dr. Carla Rice, Research Chair and Founder of Revision Centre at Guelph University, and since that time has been involved, with the Re•Vision Centre, in several digital storytelling workshops with many different communities.  Hannah has also had a lifetime love and involvement in the arts, as an actor, director and aspiring filmmaker.  Hannah has also been working with and training with the Narrative Therapy Centre since 2007 and is enlivened by the relationship between narrative therapeutic practices and the digital storytelling.

Aly Bailey is a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellow working under the supervision of Dr. Carla Rice at the University of Guelph. Her postdoctoral program of work is exploring embodiment experiences and yoga, titled, “Revisioning yoga and yoga bodies: Expanding modes of embodiment with non-normative bodies”. As a yoga instructor for the last few years she has observed and experienced the exclusionary system of the Western yoga industry. Most yoga studios, classes, and teacher training curriculums have been designed to serve heteronormative women who are white, thin, tall, hyperflexible, and in the middle and upper classes. To challenge the dominant stereotypes within yoga, Aly will co-design a decolonized and inclusive yoga curriculum with non-normatively embodied people – placing bodily differences at the center rather than at the margins.

Lauren Munro is a PhD candidate in the Community Psychology program at Wilfrid Laurier University whose personal and professional life is driven by a commitment to social justice. She is a fat activist, artist, and writer who strongly believes in the importance of integrating academia and grassroots activism to create projects that push boundaries and challenge the status quo. Lauren is a passionate educator and researcher who has been involved in a wide array of projects focused on the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities, body diversity and weight stigma, disability justice in arts-based research, transformative approaches to mental health, sexual health service access for women with psychiatric disabilities, and issues related to sexual health and HIV vulnerability. 

Natali Panic-Cidic is a passionate gamer, a scholar, and a Master student at the RWTH Aachen University. She has been researching games from multiple perspectives, including cognitive narrative sciences, meaning construction in video games through image schemas, and player-narrative interactions since 2013. Currently, she is working towards a PhD in Games User Research (GUR) and she is hoping to work within the video game industry to help create immersive video games. In 2019, she started working on her first board game inspired by her four feline friends. 

Antonia Mann is a BA student in the Department of Communication Science and Political Science at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Her research centers gender related judgment of politicians in the press and gender dependent differences in pharmaceutical advertising in television commercials. Antonia’s professional experiences includes working for the Free University of Berlin on a research project regarding the tone of news coverage in media when reporting about refugees coming to Germany and multiple editorial working student positions.  In her bachelor’s thesis she is focusing on the quality of Germany’s foreign reporting and the meta-analysis of existing scientific studies related to that topic.