Rhea Rollmann (she/her) is an award-winning journalist, writer and audio producer based in St. John’s, NL, and is the author of A Queer History of Newfoundland (Engen Books, 2023). She’s a founding editor of The Independent NL and her journalism has appeared in Briarpatch Magazine, CBC, Xtra Magazine, Chatelaine, PopMatters, Riddle Fence, Macleans and more. Her academic work has been published in the Journal of Gender Studies, Labor Studies Journal, Canadian Woman Studies, Journal of Work and Society, Canadian Theatre Review, Canadian Review of Sociology, Screen Bodies and elsewhere.
Her work has garnered three Atlantic Journalism Awards, the Andrea Walker Memorial Prize for Feminist Health Journalism and multiple Canadian Association of Journalists award nominations. In 2024 she was a short-listed nominee for the NL Provincial Human Rights Award. She’s President of CUPE Local 4554 at Memorial University, a member of CUPE’s National Pink Triangle Committee, and also serves on the Board of Directors of Trans Support NL, the National Community Radio Association, and the Global Association Against Traffic in Women. She also has an extensive background in labour organizing and queer/trans activism, and is Program Director at CHMR-FM, a community radio station in St. John’s, NL.
Angella MacEwen (she/her) is the senior economist at CUPE National and fellow with the Broadbent Institute. She regularly speaks and writes about economic issues from the perspective of workers and writes a quarterly newsletter for CUPE National called Economy at Work. She is the co-author of ‘Share the Wealth: How we can tax Canada’s super-rich and create a better country for everyone’, available from Lorimer Books. Angella has an MA in Economics from Dalhousie University.
Bushra Asghar (she/her) is a community organizer and a proud feminist who believes that social movements and civil society are integral to having strong, vibrant communities of change. Currently, she’s working to win a federally-funded paid job training program, a Youth Climate Corps that would promise a good, green job to every young person who wants one. She’s a member of Climate Justice Toronto, a dues-paying membership-led organization working to win socialist change while connecting tenant rights to climate justice.
Aidan Gilchrist-Blackwood (he/him/il) is the Network Coordinator of the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA). He previously worked as a consultant with MiningWatch Canada and in the community sector in Montreal. He has a MA in political science from McGill University, where he was a member of the McGill Research Collective Investigating Canadian Mining in Latin America (MICLA).