Clara Lynas was born in Scarborough, Ontario in 1997 to a family of Irish and Italian descent. Lynas is an only child and frequently spent summer months alone with her fathers family in rural central Ontario, this solitude influenced her development of strong interests in both visual arts and the outdoors at a young age. Lynas attended OCAD University from 2015-2020 where she co-created the OCAD University Queer Print Club, a group for LGBTQ students, staff, and faculty to learn printmaking techniques, founded in the spirit of printmaking as a political tool for queer activism, resistance and cultural production. Lynas ultimately received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus on printmaking form OCAD University. Her arts practice focuses heavily on expressive zines rooted in her personal queer feminized experience. Her work uses involved production methods such as silkscreen, relief printing, papermaking and letterpress. She has worked with arts education and outreach for several community arts organizations within the Greater Toronto Area, such as Open Studio, Scarborough Arts and Paper House Collective. She has frequently mobilized her skills for activist efforts as a poster designer, zine maker, and banner maker. Lynas is deeply involved in local habitat restoration, and is a volunteer lead steward with Toronto Nature Stewards where she leads community restoration work in Cedar Brook Park. Much of her personal time has been spent collecting detailed biodiversity data about these local urban ravine systems to support this work. Lynas currently resides in Scarborough, Ontario and has been pursuing a Masters of Information at The University of Toronto since 2024.
Ryan Cummins was born September 8, 1997 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada to a family of five. At age four his family moved to Riverside, California, United States where he would attend Benjamin Franklin Elementary School (2003 - 2010), Amelia Earhart Middle School (2010 - 2012), and Martin Luther King Jr. High School (2011 - 2015). After completing high school, during which he worked as a life guard for the City of Riverside on a seasonal basis, he moved back to Ontario to attend the University of Waterloo for his undergraduate degree. Beginning in 2015 and graduating in 2020, he received a Political Science degree with a specialization in International Relations, as well as an Honours Arts and Business degree. Cummins also graduated from the co-op program at the University of Waterloo, and worked at a variety of public and private organizations, including a gun-holster and car parts factory (2016 and 2017), the University of Waterloo's Special Collections and Archives (2018), and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (2019). After graduation, Cummins would be briefly employed at a Zehrs grocery store in Waterloo (2020) before moving to Ottawa to work for Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada as a Web Analyst (2021). After completing his work contract, Cummins briefly attended the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs as part of their Intelligence Program before leaving due to moral conflict with the program (2021 - 2022). While working again for the federal government at Women and Gender Equality Canada (2022 - current), Cummins applied for and was accepted by the University of Toronto's iSchool in the Archives and Records Management program, where he still attends (2024 - current).
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Amy Ellis is a white student currently enrolled in the University of Toronto's iSchool. She was born in St John's, Newfoundland on February 6, 1995. Ellis attended Bishop's College High School (now defunct) from 2009-2013 and Memorial University of Newfoundland (2013-2022) where she obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English Literature. In 2024, she enrolled at the University of Toronto to study archival science. Ellis has provided freelance editorial work for various publications since 2019. She in known to practice illustrative work in her spare time.
Rachel Fry is a current Master of Information student at the University of Toronto iSchool and student librarian at the E.J. Pratt Library. Additionally, Fry has completed archival internships at the E.J. Pratt Library, Anglican Diocese of Toronto, and the Archives of Ontario.
Fry was born December 11, 2002 in Woodstock, Ontario, where she lived and studied before moving to Toronto in September of 2020 to begin her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto as part of the History and Celtic Studies programs. As a result, Fry's undergraduate studies and materials are primarily concerned with Early Modern English and Irish social history as well as studies of the modern Irish language.
After completing her undergraduate program, Fry remained at the University of Toronto after being accepted to the iSchool to complete a Master of Information in Archives and Records Management.