Jane Goulding (b. 2000) is a scholar, editor, and archival studies student originally from Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador. After completing her early education and first year of college in her hometown, she relocated to St. John’s in 2019 to continue her undergraduate studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. She completed an Honours B.A. in English with a minor in Biology in 2022, followed by a Master of Arts in English with a concentration in Renaissance literature, completed in 2024. She is currently pursuing a Master of Information with a concentration in Archives and Records Management at the University of Toronto.
Goulding’s academic career has included research and teaching roles such as Research Assistant and Editor for the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Collections project (2021–2022) and Graduate Assistant for ENGL3006: Medieval and Early Modern Women (2022–2024). She has presented her research at the 2023 Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Group Conference and the 2024 Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies Conference.
She has received several academic awards and scholarships, including the Johnson Horizon Program Award (2019–2020), the Dr. Madeline Darte Scholarship in English (2021–2022), the Captain George C. Whiteley English Prize for Academic Excellence (2022), and the Dean’s Master of Information (MI) Scholarship (2024–2025), among others.
Currently based in Toronto, Ontario, she holds an internship at the Eberhard Zeidler Library of Architecture and Design. Outside of her academic and professional pursuits, Goulding maintains personal creative projects such as annual top song and album lists (active since 2019), a daily album-listening and journaling initiative begun in 2025, and occasional writing of creative prose and poetry. Her fonds also includes a personal photographic archive documenting her time living in both St. John’s and Toronto, including images of concerts, travel, food, and social life.
Katelyn Law (b. 2002) is a third-generation Chinese-Canadian born and raised in Toronto, Canada. As a young child, she was introduced to many different activities such as swimming, soccer, painting, and singing which influenced many of her future activities.
In 2012 Katelyn joined her church choir to sing in the Youth Christmas choir to be able to sing Christmas songs. It was through this choir group that she found the impact of teenagers and young adults on her experiences which encouraged her to later join the weekly church choir as she enjoyed her time with the youth group. She collected recordings of the different Christmas choirs and an array of different songs and variations of music. Through 2018-2020, she helped to lead and organize the Youth Christmas choir and documented specific notes about the music composition and experiences of leading a group of children. In these later years, she started to write about her religion and her disenfranchisement of the Catholic Church.
As a high school student, she she attended York Mills Collegiate Institute from 2017-2020 (grade 10-12), and was a member of the swim team. She also participated as a stage crew in a theatre performance. She was an avid student in Technological Design, where she learned skills about woodworking and drafting design sketches. At her graduation, she received an award for taking Technological Design classes throughout high school, and having the highest grade in her grade 12 class. Outside of school, she worked as a lifeguard and swim instructor at a pool near her house.
After high school in 2020 she moved to Montreal to complete a Bachelor of Art and Science majoring in Biology and Anthropology, at McGill University. She also joined the Redpath Museum Society, a student club that worked to promote museums and historical knowledge about natural history and science. From 2022-2023 she was elected as the Communications Manager, and was elected as the President in 2023-2024. She worked to create different events for students relating to museums and hosted a mini-lecture series relating to Natural History. She also became a volunteer coordinator for a gardening space where she organized weekly meetings and special events about plants and local harvests for the growing herbs. Through her time at school, she started to correspond with her family and friends through letters and collected various cards and photos of different experiences. She became friends with Aesop Ivaihk, a prominent figure in Canadian Global Affairs, with whom she continues to correspond through her travels and work worldwide.
She returned to Toronto in 2024 after completing her Undergraduate degree, where she now resides and is a Masters student at the University of Toronto in Archives and Record Management and Museum Studies. She is currently the secretary of the Museum Studies Student Association.
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.
Yasmina Maitland (b.1991) is a female Canadian researcher and archival studies student from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is a second-generation immigrant of Filipino, French-Canadian, and Scottish descent.
In 2009, Maitland moved to Montreal to begin undergraduate studies in Classics and Studio Art at Concordia University. She transferred in 2010 to the University of Toronto, where she completed an Honours B.A. in English with a double minor in Art History and Visual Studies in 2014.
Her undergraduate thesis in Art History examined colonial influence on women’s sleeve construction across empires to modern day. This led to a short published article for Dress, a journal by the Costume Society of America. From 2014-2015, she completed an editorial internship at Modern Painters magazine in New York City.
Between 2012 and 2018, Maitland contributed annually as a visiting artist at the Etobicoke School of the Arts, delivering lectures and workshops on contemporary art, sculpture and textiles.
In 2016 she returned to Toronto and subsequently spent two years rock climbing across Canada, the United States, and Europe. She maintained sketches and field notes documenting moderate traditional routes and hiking approaches. In 2017, she self-published a climbing guidebook focused on moderate traditional routes in Milton, Ontario; the guide went out of print by 2019.
In 2020, she was accepted into the MPhil program in textile conservation at the University of Glasgow but declined the offer due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Since 2024, Maitland has been pursuing a Master of Information at the University of Toronto, with a concentration in Archives and Records Management. Her academic research focuses on legacy and corporate fashion archives, and on digital heritage and preservation. She worked as a Teaching Assistant for the course Information Practice in Organizations.
Maitland currently resides in Toronto.
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.
Isabella Ruiter (b. 2001) is a female international museum and archival studies student based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was born an American citizen in New Jersey, USA to a Pakistani-American mother and Dutch-immigrant father. Ruiter was born and raised a Baha'i, a somewhat recent Abrahamic religion that her parents adopted independently of each other before they met. As a Baha'i, one of the principles of which is service to humanity, Ruiter spend most of her free time growing up planning and facilitating service projects for her community, including painting murals in her hometown, tutoring elementary school children, and organizing multi-faith and racial literacy events as a few examples.
Ruiter graduated from Hillsborough High School in 2019, then pursuing a gap year of service work in the Baha'i World Centre in Haifa, Israel. She worked as a gardener amongst other global volunteers for nine months, the year cut short due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
In 2020, Ruiter started her undergraduate studies in History and Cultural Anthropology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, but remained living in Hillsborough. Though her degree is in General History, she had a particular interest in ancient and medieval European studies, taking many extra classes in Classics. In 2022, she studied abroad in Rome, Italy at John Cabot University for a semester, taking immersive history classes around the city. She studied abroad in Benin for a period of three weeks in the summer shortly after arriving back from Rome. The trip to Benin was focused on cultural heritage, hosted by École du Patrimoine Africain (EPA) in Porto Novo. During her undergraduate experience, she developed a passion for Public History, receiving a certificate upon graduation. As a Junior, she was accepted by Rutger's Career Exploration and Success office to participate in the FIGS (First-Year Interest Group Seminar) program as an instructor, leading her to develop, design, and execute a lesson plan for a class of 25 freshmen students over the course of a semester.
Ruiter graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History with a minor in Cultural Anthropology in 2024, summa cum laude. In the same year, she was accepted into the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information to pursue their Combined Degree Program, which includes a Master of Information in Archives and Records Management as well as a Master of Museum Studies. She was granted the Faculty of Information International Fellowship upon admission into the program. Ruiter has since relocated to Toronto to pursue this degree with her husband, whom she married in the summer of 2024. She is currently an International student at the University of Toronto, but intends on staying in Ontario permanently and is in the process of applying for Permanent Residency through marriage.