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. Ankomah would graduate from A.Y Jackson Secondary School in 2020 and would begin to attend Toronto Metropolitan University (then Ryerson University).

Ankomah would major in History before transferring to the Criminology and History major in 2021. During her time at Toronto Metropolitan University, Ankomah would continue to develop her interest from highschool by taking a variety of Criminology and History courses related to the treatment and experiences of in Black Canadian and American history. During her third year at Toronto Metropolitan University, Ankomah would take a course focused on archives where her interest began to shift into archival activism through giving greater access to Black Canadians to archival material as a means of bringing social change in archives.

Niloofar (Nil) Taghipour is a visual artist, photographer, and emerging archivist whose work explores themes of memory, everyday life, and personal storytelling through lens-based media. Born and raised in Iran, she developed her artistic voice over three decades before relocating to Canada, where her practice expanded to include archival methods and self-publishing through photo books.

Nil holds degrees in photography and art studies from institutions in Iran and Canada and is currently pursuing graduate studies in Information and Archival Science at the University of Toronto. Her artistic practice spans analog and digital photography, often using 35mm color film to document intimate, unnoticed moments of urban life. Her work emphasizes the quiet poetry of daily experience, frequently curated into periodical photo projects or exhibition prints.

The Nil Tag Fonds reflects this ongoing practice, comprising photographic negatives, scanned digital images, writings, correspondence, and curated artist books. The materials document not only the evolution of her visual language but also the cross-cultural and geographic shifts in her life and work — from Tehran to Toronto, with projects created across multiple cities during periods of travel.

Nil’s work has been exhibited and collected privately, and her archive is actively maintained by the artist as both a personal and professional record.

Dinah Samuel was born in 1999 in Toronto, Canada and spent most of her life in Pickering, Ontario from 2009 onwards. She was born to Eritrean Catholic immigrants to a family of five. She has attended St. Barbara Catholic Elementary School (2003-2009), St. Anthony Daniel Catholic Elementary School (2009-2012), St. Wilfrid Catholic Elementary School (2012-13), and Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School (2013-2017).

Her past education includes a BA at the University of Toronto Scarborough in History (2017-2021) and an MA in History (2022-2023). During her BA education, she was a member of the Historical and Cultural Studies Student Association (HCSSA) as the Vice President (External) (2019-2020) and President (2020-2021). Her Masters History paper was titled "The Eritrean People's Liberation Front Ideological Trajectory" detailing the Eritrean revolutions' ideological shifts and international relations from the 1960s to their independence in 1991.

Her past careers predating her current education include several summer positions as a Production Assistant at Celestica (2018-2020), a Collections Assistant at the Sharon Temple Museum and National Historic Site (2018-2019), and a Local History Assistant at the Oshawa Public Library (2022-2023) and Pickering Public Library (2025).

She is currently a University of Toronto student at the Faculty of Information studying Archives and Records Management, with an interest in community archives and decolonial archival practices.

Teofil Eugene (Ted) Kulczycky was raised in Toronto and has lived in Vancouver and Montreal. He is a non-fiction author, archival researcher, library worker and aspiring archivist.

He studied philosophy, film and popular music at Toronto’s York University from 1992-1996, when his studies were interrupted by an anxiety disorder. From 1997-2020, while earning a living in the restaurant and remainder book businesses, he continued to publish sporadic nonfiction writings, and was closely associated with WORN Fashion Journal. During this period, he also participated in other creative pursuits including songwriting and performing with the bands BedBugBites and The Chorus Barloff, directing the short film Real Me and the music video for Telefauna’s "Tombstone," DJing and event hosting as Teddy the K. Although he has long been collecting published materials relating to the Jonathan Demme/Talking Heads concert film, Stop Making Sense, since 2014, he has been actively developing Stop Making Sense project, a multi-media research mission which includes original documents and firsthand research.

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Kulczycky completed his bachelor’s degree in philosophy at York University, and in 2021 began a masters degree in information studies part time at the University of Toronto. Since spring of 2022, Kulczycky has been a page at the Toronto Reference Library. At the same time, he has also been doing archival research for documentary films, most notably Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks.

On August 22 2023, Kulczycky was critically injured when struck by a car upon exiting a Toronto streetcar. Most serious among his injuries were multiple spinal fractures. Despite the severity of his condition, and still being hospitalized, Kulczycky was permitted to attend a Talking Heads reunion/Stop Making Sense 40th anniversary screening at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11 2023. Upon discharge, Kulczycky managed to attend over twenty theatrical screenings of the film over the subsequent weeks, which garnered him a degree of media attention, resulting in Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper deeming him an “Artist of the Year 2023.”

Kulczycky gradually resumed his educational, creative and professional pursuits over the following two years.

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.

Nourane Abdelshafy (1996-) is an Egyptian Canadian researcher, educator, writer, and artist. She has held positions as a Lecturer at the Department of French Studies at the University of Waterloo (2018-2020) and the University of Toronto (2024). In addition to her academic roles, Abdelshafy has also occupied various roles in academic and not-for-profit institutions. Committed to education and community engagement, she served as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Waterloo (2015-2018) and Wilfrid Laurier University (2017-2018), as well as a French Language Assessor at the YMCA Greater Toronto Area (2023-2024).

Born and raised in Cairo, Egypt, Nourane Abdelshafy completed her primary and secondary education in her native country. In 2014, she immigrated to Canada, where she pursued higher education at the University of Waterloo, earning her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in 2014 and Master of Arts (M.A.) degrees in French Studies in 2023. In 2024, she enrolled in the University of Toronto’s Master of Information program, pursuing a career in Archives and Records Management.

As a researcher, Abdelshafy focuses on the use of materiality as a narrative device in francophone autofiction from the 20th and 21st centuries. Her scholarly interests also encompass transcultural representations in French novels. Later in her career, she expanded her research to include ecopoetics in French Canadian literature, exploring the intersection of ecology, poetic expression, and identity. Abdelshafy has extensively written on the works of notable authors such as Annie Ernaux, Patrick Modiano, Riad Sattouf, and Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba. Her contributions to literary criticism and analysis of these authors' works were published in journals such as the International Journal of Francophone Studies and Canadian Literature.

In addition to her academic and research pursuits, Nourane Abdelshafy is a published writer and artist. Her debut autofiction novel Sumac (2022), explores themes of migration, displacement, belonging, and the fluidity of identity, drawing from her own experiences as an immigrant. As an artist, her works were exhibited in galleries across Canada, such as Gallery 44. Her artistic productions often reflect her scholarly interests, incorporating elements of materiality and ecopoetics. Through her photography and paintings, she explores the relationship between nature, culture, and personal narrative. Her exhibitions, such as Bodies of Water (2021) and Transscapes (2023) explore the fluidity of identity as transitional, transitory, and transformative.