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Karen Messing
Karen Messing is professor emerita in ergonomics at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She collaborates with labour unions and women’s groups to ensure women workers’ needs are addressed in occupational health and safety practice. Author of Pain and Prejudice: What Science Can Learn about Work from the People Who Do It (Between the Lines, 2014), also published in French, Korean, and German. Officer of the Order of Canada; recipient of Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case.
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Sean Mills
Sean Mills is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Susana P. Miranda
Susana P. Miranda is an independent scholar with a PhD in history from York University. The author of scholarly articles on Portuguese cleaners in Toronto, she currently works for the Ontario Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Colleges and Universities. A public historian, she is co-founder of the Portuguese Canadian History Project, which collects, preserves, and disseminates material related to the Portuguese in Canada. She lives in Toronto.
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Dave Mitchell
Dave Mitchell is a writer, editor, organizer, and troublemaker who divides his time between western Canada, southern Mexico, and points in between.
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Maite Mompó
Maite Mompó has been a Greenpeace activist for over 10 years. With the sea in her blood she started on a small training boat, the Zorba, and then moved on to crew for the Arctic Sunrise, Esperanza, and Rainbow Warrior. Spending half her year at sea, she has sailed from pole to pole, taken part in numerous actions and has put herself “between the harpoon and the whale.”
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Sandra Moran
Sandra Moran joined the Guatemalan human rights movement at fourteen and during the 1980s became involved with Guatemala’s renowned rebel band Kin Lalat. Sandra’s human rights and musical activism made her a target for the death squads and by the late 1980s, she was forced into exile in Nicaragua, Mexico and Vancouver, Canada to escape the violence. During her years in exile, she participated in solidarity work and became involved in the Canadian women’s movement. Sandra returned to Guatemala City in the mid-1990s to continue her work for women’s rights. Upon her return, she came out as a lesbian, and has also been active in promoting GBLTQ rights in Guatemala.
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Ghaida Moussa
Ghaida Moussa is a PhD candidate in the Social and Political Thought program at York University.
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Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois was the lead spokesperson for CLASSE, one of the more vocal student bodies that participated in the 2012 student strikes that swept Quebec. He is a regular panelist on Radio-Canada.
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Patrizia Nanz
Patrizia Nanz is a director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) and a professor of Transformative Sustainability Studies at the University of Potsdam.
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Peggy Nash
Peggy Nash is an advocate for labour rights and social justice in Canadian politics and the labour movement, as a long-time senior negotiator for the CAW (now Unifor). A former president of the federal New Democratic Party, she was a candidate for leader after the untimely death of Jack Layton. A candidate in several federal elections, she served as a Member of Parliament and was named Official Opposition Industry and Finance Critic. Nash is an educator, a frequent media commentator, a founding member of Equal Voice and a co-founder of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Women in the House program.
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Randle W. Nelsen
Randle W. Nelsen has taught sociology in Canada and the United States for fifty years. He has written extensively on higher education, professionalism and bureaucratic work, and popular culture. He is the author of Fun & Games & Higher Education: The Lonely Crowd Revisited and Life of the Party: A Study in Sociability, Community, and Social Inequality.
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David F. Noble
David Franklin Noble (July 22, 1945 – December 27, 2010) was a critical historian of technology, science and education, best known for his groundbreaking work on the social history of automation. In his final years he taught in the Division of Social Science, and the department of Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto. Noble held positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Smithsonian Institution and Drexel University, as well as many visiting professorships.
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Emily Nokes
Emily Nokes is a musician, writer, graphic designer, illustrator, Libra, candy enthusiast, and the singer/tambourinist in the glittery, feminist punk-pop band, Tacocat. Her hobbies include giving pretty good home bang trims, puffy painting, stoned shopping, and taking photos of her son Tinsel, who is a perfect gray kitten. Her work has appeared in Seattle’s alternative weekly the Stranger, where she previously worked as music editor before accepting her current job as music editor at _BUST _magazine.