She currently works as General Manager for Fujiwara Dance Inventions, Tribal Crackling Wind, Dreamwalker Dance Company, Moonhorse Dance Theatre, and pounds per square inch performance; and oversees Financial Management for Dusk Dances, BoucharDanse and ProArteDanza.  Past clients include 20 years as General Manager with CanAsian Dance, as well as short-term contracts with princess productions, adelheid dance projects, M-DO, Toronto Table Ensemble and Company Erasga Dance (Vancouver).

She is passionate about supporting artists to dynamically realize their visions and create intersectional immersive spaces and transcendent experiences. She believes the arts exchange transitional knowledge and offer a medium for therapeutic healing and expression. Jessica graduated from Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute as an Arts & Culture Specialist High Skills Major and X University’s School of Performance with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in Theatre Production and minoring in Acting & Dance. Since 2019, she has been an Associate Artist of Mississauga dance theatre company Frog in Hand; collaborating with the collective as the Production Assistant and Stage Manager of their Summer Company (2019-2020), the Assistant Stage Manager of their site-specific promenade production Stories in the Woods (2019 and 2021), the Digital Production Coordinator of their radio play War of the Worlds Reimagined (2020), and the Business Manager (since 2020). Her other works also include Electric Moon Theatre Company, City Youth Players, Flato Markham Theatre, and the Female Eye Film Festival. Currently, she is the Business Manager of Frog in Hand and Project Coordinator of Jaberi Dance Theatre.

“The mastermind behind Porch View Dances” Toronto Star, she develops performance platforms provoking collaborative relationships between dancers, everyday people and the body. She integrates community and public participation through interactive performance strategies such as her audience inclusive Flock Landing installations. Karen’s awards include the 2019 Dance Ontario Lifetime Achievement Award, the CDA “I Love Dance” Community Award and the Paul D. Fleck Fellowship for Innovation (Banff). Her performances, choreography and creations have received 7 Dora Mavor Moore nominations, including quadrupal Dora nominations for Crave which won one. Karenis distinguished in The Canadian Who’s Who, was a finalist for the TAF Muriel Sherrin Award for International achievement, the CDA Innovation Award, NOW’s Best Local Choreographer and twice nominated for NOW’s Best Dance Company. An image maker, Karen’s choreography “paints portraits with moving bodies” Toronto Star. Commissioned, presented and touring globally from NFLD to Israel to Japan, she was the first resident dance artist for both MUN/Dance NL and the Guelph Dance Festival.Karen is a mentor and dramaturge for many instrumental dance artists plus Stratford’s first movement dramaturge for their upcoming 2020 production of Wendy and Peter Pan. She is Co-Artistic Director of Kaeja d’Dance with Allen Kaeja, and with Claudia Moore of Cloud 9. She is currently working on several commissions and performances for 2020 and 2021 including premieres at Citadel and Company’s Bright Nights, The Bentway and Harbourfront Centre Theatre. www.kaeja.org

Her work involves designing community-based social development and applied research projects with international, national and provincial/territorial organizations. As an educator, Doris has taught community development courses at a variety of post secondary institutions. She has written many training resources and advised national and international NGO’s on how to conduct effective community-based research and development strategies. Doris is also an actress, playwright/screenwriter and filmmaker. She is very proud of her work with director Pierre Tétrault on the films This Beggar’s Description, The ‘R’ Word and the comedy Healing Rani. Favourite theatrical work includes; Gandhi High, Doris Does Damage and most recently, her play A Tender Path.

Dr. Mojab is Professor of Higher and Adult Education in the Department of Leadership at OISE/University of Toronto and the former Director of the Women and Gender Institute. She received the prestigious Royal Society of Canada Award in Gender Studies in 2010. A unique feature of her work is making knowledge accessible to public through the use of arts such as story-telling, dance, drama, painting and film. Her most recent research projects are Youth in Transition: War, Migration, and ‘Regenerative Possibilities’; The Pedagogy and Policy of Refugee Youth Resettlement; and No Woman’s Land, which is a dance project to capture the experience of refugee women of sexual violence.