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Deborah Barndt is professor emerita in the faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto. A social justice activist, artist, and popular educator, her photographs have been published and exhibited widely, and her books include Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail and edited volumes VIVA! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas, Wild Fire: Art as Activism, and Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain (deborahbarndt.com). Lauren E. Bakerhas more than twenty years of experience working on food systems issues with the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, the Toronto Food Policy Council, Sustain Ontario, and the People's Food Institute. With a PhD on maize social movements in Mexico, she has taught at the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University. Her books include Balancing the Scales: True Cost Accounting for Food and Corn Meets Maize (laurenbaker.ca). Alexandra Gelis is a Colombian-Venezuelan-Canadian artist based in Toronto who works collaboratively with communities around the globe. Her widely exhibited installations are featured in a recent book, Alexandra Gelis: Seeds. She is completing her PhD at York University on the relationship between people, plants, and power in the context of colonization and globalization, culminating in a major multimedia exhibit: Living-With : Migrant Relations (https://www.alexandragelis.com/). |
