Sarah Matthews was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. No accomplishments to report.
Allison Mei (2002-2025) was born in London, Ontario, where she spent most of her childhood and attended high school, graduating in 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. After high school, she attended Queen’s University from 2020-2024 where her first year was online, majoring in History with a minor in Philosophy. It was here where she first encountered public history and archival professions, completing two different internships as a Collections Assistant at a local Kingston museum and as an Archives Intern at the Queen’s University Archives.
During her third year of undergrad, she completed an exchange term at the University of Manchester, taking advantage of her proximity to Europe to travel on her downtime, taking many photographs along the way and engaging in UK specific history courses.
After completing her undergrad, she enrolled in the Master of Information program at the University of Toronto in the Archives and Records Management stream beginning in 2024 with hopes to become an archivist after graduation.
Throughout her time in school, she participated in many different courses, as well as activist groups on campus, including the Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) sector at Queen’s. Through this group, she ran a No-Vote Campaign against an incoming student committee running for Alma Mater Society (AMS) student representatives, one of the first ever No-Vote campaigns ran in Queen’s history.
Allison was also an avid photographer, writer, and traveler in her personal life, keeping journals, engaging in photography both on film and digitally, and documenting her many travels throughout her early adult life.
On March 15, 2025, Allison was killed in a plane crash heading to Prague from Pearson Airport for a solo Spring Break trip.
Kayla Middleton is an ARM student at UofT. She was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Faith Moir was born in Ottawa, Canada in 2001, and was raised by a single mother. Her family was very active in Riverside United Church, and she participated in the church choir and volunteered with events put on by the church, though she no longer identifies with Christianity.
She did not leave Ottawa until attending university, where she went to Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. During her tenure at Acadia University, she originally intended to attain a Bachelor's Degree in English, though in her second year changed her major to History. During this time, she was a member of the Acadia Film Society, the Acadia History Club, and she also worked as a Collections Research Intern at the Acadia University Art Gallery located on campus. Most of her academic interests fall under the broad categories of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Women Studies, and Medieval Studies.
She graduated with her BA in History with Minors in Classics and Material Culture in 2023, after which she returned to Ottawa for a year.
In 2024, Faith was accepted into the Combined Degree Program at the iSchool under the University of Toronto, and she is now currently working on attaining her Masters of Information and Masters of Museum Studies. She hopes to become a curator or archivist after graduation.
Faith volunteers with several organizations. She worked as a volunteer receptionist at the Textile Museum of Canada, volunteers online with the Goulbourn Museum, and works with the Out of the Cold Foundation.
Faith has been working on several creative writing endeavours, including poetry, short stories, and the drafts of one novel. Other creative endeavours she pursues include digital photography and digital illustration.
Prof. Roxana Ng (28 May 1951 – 12 Jan 2013) was a Professor at OISE (The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) whose research and activism focused on issues facing immigrant women and garment workers, especially in the Canadian context. The first woman of colour to hold a tenure track position at OISE, Prof. Ng was also a key researcher in critical pedagogy, decolonizing pedagogy and embodied learning.
Prof. Ng was born in Diamond Hill, a hill in the east of Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City, the enclave later destroyed by the British colonial government. In 1968, she left for a Quaker boarding school in the United Kingdom. She moved to Vancouver with her family in 1970 and received her BA and MA in Sociology from the University of British Columbia (UBC). She moved to Toronto in 1978 to begin her PhD at OISE, which she received in 1984. Prof. Ng then taught at the University of New Brunswick and Queen’s University before returning to OISE in 1988 – first teaching sociology and then adult education.
Prof. Ng spent most of her academic career as a member of OISE’s Adult Education and Community Development Program. She was also Director of OISE’s Centre for Women’s Studies in Education and a key member of OISE’s Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies (CIAR) and the Anti-Racist Network. She was an active opponent of racism and sexism in both academia and society at large. Her own experiences with these issues is documented in her article title “A woman out of control: deconstructing sexism and racism in the university” (Canadian Journal of Education, 1993 18(3), p. 189).
Prof. Ng’s research was focused on the experiences of immigrant women in Canada, including their exclusion from the labour market. Prof. Ng authored numerous books and articles, including co-authoring Anti-Racism, Feminism, and Critical Approaches to Education (Bergin & Garvey, 1995). She also served as principal researcher for “Professional immigrant women navigating the Canadian labour market: a study in adult learning.” Prof. Ng also advocated strongly for healthy living choices, and developed a strong interest in Eastern medicine, trying to reunite mind, body, and spirit, which have been traditionally segregated in academia. To this end, she taught courses such as “Embodied Learning and Qi Gong,” “Applications of Embodied Learning,” and “Toward an Integrative Equity Approach in Higher Education.”
Prof. Ng was involved in many community groups and grassroots organizations that supported immigrant women. She co-founded the Vancouver Women’s Research Centre in 1977, a centre that helped immigrant women address issues of economic development, domestic violence and sexual harassment. She subsequently helped set up similar centres for immigrant women across the country. She served as a board member of Inter Pares (1999-2013), a “Canadian social justice organization working in Canada and around the world to support people's struggles for peace, justice, and equality” (from their website). She was also a member of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) since 1986 and served as a board member and then President in 1994/95.
Prof. Ng was also a key member of the Homeworkers Association (HWA), a group that began as part of the Toronto Chapter of the Chinese Canadian National Council. The HWA organized training, support, and social events for home workers, particularly those in the garment industry.
She died of cancer on January 12 2013, at the age of 61.
Dylan Norton was born in 1995 in Mississauga, Ontario, and his family moved to neighbouring Oakville in 1997 during a time of unusually low property values. He attended Maple Grove Public School from 2000 to 2006, E.J. James Public School from 2006 to 2009, and Oakville Trafalgar High School from 2009 to 2013. He attempted to study commerce at Toronto Metropolitan University (then known as Ryerson University) immediately after high school, but quickly dropped out due to mental health issues. After a diagnosis of mild ASD and a year of work, he entered the humanities at University of Toronto Mississauga in 2014. He majored in classical history with minors in history and political science, and graduated with high distinction in 2019, entering a two-year MA program at the Department of Classics at the U of T St. George campus the same year. He completed this degree in 2021, but decided to reorient his career after not being one of only three domestic students admitted into the classics PhD program that year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. After another year of work, he entered a one-year MA program in political science in 2022, also at the St. George campus. Unsure of where to go from there, he worked for yet another year before entering the Archives and Records Management program at the U of T Faculty of Information in 2024 in order to gain job-specific skills. He hopes to have a career in this field, but if this proves as difficult as it seems, he is considering applying for the Canadian army reserves (as a Canadian patriot at a time of American sabre-rattling) as either an intelligence, logistics, or legal officer (if he is deemed mentally fit for service). Indeed, his future, like the future of many, remains uncertain.