Katherine Victoria Robertson (born 30 October 1997) is a full-time student at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. She grew up in Scarborough, Toronto as the eldest child with three younger brothers, and is the first in her family to attend university. In the Interest of providing transparency and positionality she self identifies as a middle class, white, settler, disabled, queer, cis gender woman.
Katherine attended high school at Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute from 2011 to 2015, during which time she volunteered as a summer school teacher's aide in 2013, and worked as a summer school bus monitor and elementary-level teaching assistant in 2015. She went on to complete her Honours Bachelor of Arts at the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus from Fall 2015 to Winter 2023, where she majored in history and minored in anthropology and women’s and gender studies. Her research interests examined histories of gender and sexuality, race and post-colonial studies, and Ethiopian history. The duration of her degree was longer than usual due to balancing school commitments with working as a Locations Support Person for Entertainment Partners Canada Inc. from 2015 to 2019, necessary accommodations for her learning disability, and unforeseen obligations resulting from the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Despite these hurdles she achieved the Historical and Cultural Studies Emerging Scholars Award in 2018, the Dean's List in 2023, and graduated with High Distinction. Following the completion of her undergraduate degree she was invited in 2023 to present her course paper “Myth and Conflict Under the Solomonic Dynasty: A Case Study of Queen Gudit and the Queen of Sheba,” as part of a panel “Reckonings and Re-imaginings: The Ethiopian ‘Dark Ages’ (6th-12th centuries)” organized for the annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, in association with the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences annual congress. In Fall 2024, Katherine began her graduate studies in the Combined Degree program at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information (iSchool). She is enrolled in the Archives and Records Management concentration and has focused her research on engagement between GLAM institutions and Indigenous communities. She is also working with Dr. Michael Gervers to publish a volume on the Ethiopian Dark Ages, which includes her paper “Myth and Conflict Under the Solomonic Dynasty.”
Sonya Richards is a Canadian archivist and poet. She was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, in 1992. In 1996, she immigrated to Canada with her mother, father, and two siblings. After living in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2001, she and her family moved to Brampton, Ontario. She attended Cardinal High School and graduated in 2010. She graduated from York University with a HBA in 2019. After this, she attended Sheridan College and completed a post-graduate certificate in 2021. Richards then received her MI from the University of Toronto in 2025. Outside of her academic pursuits, Richards wrote several unpublished short stories and poems.
Roxanne Quelhas was born in Mississauga, Ontario in 2001 and currently resides there. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in 2024. After completing her Bachelor's degree, Quelhas enrolled in a Master of Information, concentrating on archives and record management at the University of Toronto.
During Quelhas’ Bachelor, between 2020 and 2024, she engaged in various research projects within the Political, Sociology, History, and English disciplines that focused on gender, sexuality, and systems of power. Through her research, she interacted with archives and museums, using primary materials as the foundation for her academic work. Quelhas worked as a file clerk while completing her Bachelor’s, which further developed her interest in records.
Throughout her undergraduate degree, Quelhas volunteered articles to the independent student newspaper, The Eyeopener, at Toronto Metropolitan University where she wrote and interviewed students on topics concerning student life and mental health.
Besides her research, Quelhas is a creative writer who has developed a portfolio of short fiction stories. Her creative work was done academically and independently as she pursued her creative interests through courses and writers' workshops in the GTA, which she currently attends as she continues to pursue her creative interests.
Chloe Peters (b. 1996-) is a Medieval historian and information professional from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. During the course of her academic career, Peters earned both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts with a focus in Medieval Studies. Peters is currently in Toronto, Ontario earning a Master of Information in Archival Studies. Influenced by her upbringing, Peters’ areas of research include numismatics, paleography, pedagogical gamification, women, Christianity, collections, and memory.
Peters grew up in a non-religious household with a Catholic mother and an atheist father. Baptised Lutheran, Peters experienced numerous Christian religions during her childhood, attending Trinity United Church with her mother and Superb Mennonite Church with her paternal grandmother. At her mother’s behest, Peters received a Catholic school education, attending St. Dominic Elementary School between 1999 and 2010 and Bethlehem Catholic High School from 2010 to 2014.
Between 2014 and 2020, Peters attended the University of Saskatchewan where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Double Honours in Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (CMRS), and History as well as a Certificate in Classical and Medieval Latin. Throughout her undergraduate degree, Peters participated in numerous extracurricular activities and held multiple research positions. From 2016 to 2018, Peters was the President of Comitatus, the CMRS student group for undergraduate students, where she organized numerous activities and fundraising events. From 2016 to 2020, Peters was a volunteer coin cataloguer at the Museum of Antiquities at the University of Saskatchewan. During this degree, Peters worked on several major projects including the creation of two Medieval card games, Virtus and Distaff, and her museum exhibition and bachelor’s thesis on the coinage of King Alfred.
Peters moved to Vienna, Austria in 2021 to study at Central European University. During this degree, Peters’ research centered on ants in Medieval Latin manuscripts, and, in 2022, she completed her thesis “Some Ants Go Marching Two by Two, Others Dig for Gold: The Visual and Textual Representations of Ants in the Medieval Period” and earned her Master of Arts in Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies. Peters remained in Vienna following the completion of her degree, where she travelled around Europe and took several German language courses. Throughout her academic career, Peters has presented her research at numerous academic conferences, including the Kalamazoo International Medieval Congress and the Leeds International Medieval Congress. In the fall of 2023, Peters returned to Saskatoon. In 2024, Peters moved to Toronto, Ontario to pursue a Master of Information from the University of Toronto.
Master of Information candidate at the University of Toronto iSchool.