Dr. Suze Berkhout is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and an affiliate of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. She is an early career clinician-investigator and practicing psychiatrist. Her program of research in feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS) utilizes ethnographic, narrative and arts-based methods to explore social and cultural issues impacting access and navigation through health care systems. She also co-leads a capacity building seed grant to support early career researchers in health arts and humanities research practices. She loves coffee and thinking about how to complicate the narratives we share with each other in medicine.

Dr. Chantalle Clarkin is a qualitative health researcher with a passion for participatory arts-based approaches and digital storytelling. As a Registered Nurse by background with over 20 years of clinical experience, Chantalle holds a Doctorate in Education from the University of Ottawa, and a specialization in non-fiction media and documentary filmmaking from the Documentary Film Institute. Chantalle is a Staff Scientist with Talk Suicide Canada at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), an award-winning filmmaker, and an adjunct lecturer with the Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include mental health and suicide prevention, community-based research, documentary film methods, and arts-engaged research for civic engagement and social activism. Chantalle is also the Associate Director of HeART Lab (Health equity, Art, Research and Technology), a health humanities research lab (healthequityart.com) that brings together caregivers, community members, healthcare providers, and artists through collaborative co-design and storytelling for mental health.

Eva-Marie Stern MA RP (she/her) is an art psychotherapist and medical educator, adjunct faculty in the Department of Psychiatry (U Toronto), and a Harvard Fellow in Art Museum-Based Health Professions Education. She was a co-founder of WRAP and the Trauma Therapy Program at Women’s College Hospital. Her interests intersect in a Venn diagram of art, trauma, and learning. She practices and consults at artandmind.net in Toronto.

Shelley Wall is an associate professor in the Biomedical Communications graduate program at the University of Toronto, with an educational background in literature, fine art, and medical illustration. The focus of her research and creative work for the past decade has been graphic medicine. She is co-editor, with Abby Hershler, Lesley Hughes, and Patricia Nguyen (illustrator), of Looking at Trauma: A Toolkit for Clinicians, which translates psychoeducational models of trauma into accessible comics for use in trauma therapy. She is a board member of the Graphic Medicine International Collective, an organisation dedicated to guiding and supporting the use of comics in health.

Laura Wright, PhD, is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Childhood Studies, University of Edinburgh.
Laura grew up on Nexwlélexwm, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Squamish Nation. Laura’s
research and practice has focused on play and arts based participatory methodologies, children and
youth’s meaningful participation, children’s rights, intergenerational partnerships, social justice, mental
health and psychosocial wellbeing in Canada, South and Eastern Europe, the United Kingdom, East and
West Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. She is passionate about collaboration and is an active member
on several committees (e.g., Child and Young People thematic hub) and boards (e.g., Canadian
Coalition of Children’s Rights) globally.