Dreddz Green identifies as a Jamaican Canadian anti-suffering activist with lived expertise of the shelter system and encampments. He is a beloved community organizer who works with Voices from the Shelter Hotels and the Toronto Union for the Homeless and Underhoused. He is dedicated to fighting for unhoused peoples rights and well-being. Dreddz has much knowledge to share with the world about the harms of the shelter system and how poor and unhoused people are treated by the larger society.

Michèle identifies as a white settler with Polish, Ukrainian, and Scottish ancestry. She is also an actor, director, producer, and musician. In much of her work as a director, she has explored denial, trauma, and desire through an anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchal lens. Michèle has won multiple awards for her films, and has been awarded grants from the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts. Her most recent film, a short horror/dance film called “3pm Thursdays” was also supported though the CFC/Netflix calling card accelerator program. She has been mentored by Tracey Deer, and is an alumni of the Blood In the Snow Horror Lab and Reykjavik International Film Festival Talent Lab. She is currently working on her first feature which has development funding from Canada Council and Telefilm. She loves folk music, traveling, reading, learning, dismantling the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, and spending time with her two delightful kids.

Sid identifies as white settler of Scottish ancestry from a mixed class background with lived experience of poverty and lumpen lifeways who is queer and non-binary identifying. They are a writer, researcher, community engaged artist, poor people’s liberationist, anti-colonial-capitalist, abolitionist, gardener, food enthusiast, winter lover, care-giver, working for an enlivened future of possibility. Find out more (if you want) at carceralcontinuum.ca.

Nahum identifies as a white settler of Irish and Jewish ancestry, although he has been largely disconnected from these histories and traditions. Nahum’s lived experiences throughout his life with homelessness, poverty, and drug use are the foundation of his work. He is a multidisciplinary artist, journalist & community organizer based in Toronto committed to social and economic justice, and his work can be seen in campaigns like Build a Better Bloor Dufferin, Neighbourhood Pods TO, Choose Chemi for Parkdale High Park, and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. Nahum is a proud husband and father to two inspiring children.