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Arden Hody (b. 1995) grew up in Bells Corners, Nepean, in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario. She attended Bell High School and was active in Girl Guides (GGC) throughout her childhood. The Hody family attended the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ottawa from 2001, where Hody participated in Religious Exploration classes and was active in the youth group. During high school, Hody took on leadership roles at church and in Guiding and attended conferences and camps in New York, Switzerland, New Brunswick, Alberta, and Ontario. She went to Doe Lake Camp for sleep-away camp in 2004 and transferred to Camp Woolsey in 2005, returning every summer until 2010.

Hody started working at Unicamp of Ontario, a Unitarian Universalist summer camp and conference centre, in 2012. Working variously as a counsellor and a cook between 2012 and 2015, she often attributed this time in her life for her love of cooking. Hody was the inaugural Out-Trip facilitator and led trips for Unicamp youth in the Massassauga Provincial Park on Georgian Bay in 2014 and 2015. In 2016, Hody was promoted to Assistant Director and took over responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the camp. She held that position for in 2016, 2017, and 2019. In 2018, Hody went to work as the Camp Director at Camp Wyoka and Camp Adelaide (GGC) during their last year of operations.

Hody attended the College of Humanities at Carleton University between 2013 and 2018, pursing honour research in religious studies. She participated in a reciprocal exchange program in 2015-2016, attended the University of Stirling in Scotland. In 2019, she returned to Carleton to complete a Master of Public History and a Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies. In 2020, Hody moved to Toronto for her research into the display of mortuary objects at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). She received an Ontario Graduate Scholarship in 2020 to complete her degree, graduating in 2021. Hody returned to school in 2023 to pursue a Master of Information in Archives and Records Management at the University of Toronto.

While at Carleton University, Hody became active in CUPE2600, the union that represented teaching assistants. Her work recognized by the History Department when she was invited to be the TA mentor in 2020-2021. Hody developed resources for teaching undergraduate research skills and circulated news letters throughout the academic year.

In 2019, Hody began her career in museums and archives. She completed practicums at the Canadian Museum of History and the National Gallery of Canada before the first COVID-19 lockdown. She continued to perform remote contract work for museums occasionally over the next two years while working in communications. In 2023, Hody was hired by the ROM to consolidate three disparate herbarium collections of Crataugus specimens. She worked in the Green Plant Herbarium (TRT) throughout the first year of her MI. In 2024, Hody went to the Royal British Columbia Museum to contribute to their "Prep, Pack, and Move" project. In 2025, Hody graduated with her MI and started work at the Trent University Archives.

Sofia Harwell (1978 - ) is a fine arts librarian at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, and a former arts sector fundraiser for various non-profit organizations in Toronto and North Carolina. In the arts world, she is best known as a collage artist and author of three children’s books featuring her collages as illustrations. Her collages, which Canadian Art has described as “whimsical cautionary tales,” are noted for their intricate mosaic-like appearance, their depictions of Canadian landscapes and animal-like creatures, and their focus on the human impact and encroachment upon the natural world. The works use a combination of handmade papers, black-and-white photographs, leaves and dried botanical samples that have been collected from around the world.

Education
Sofia grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina in a rural area near Asheville. She spent her freshman year of high school abroad in Russia and Austria, where she developed her passion for art and international travel. She attended university at a small liberal arts college in New England, graduating with a BA in Russian and Classics, and went on to complete a “master’s international” program in Washington, which combined two years of Peace Corps service in the Republic of North Macedonia (2006-2008) with a dual Master of International Studies in Eastern European history and Public Administration (2011). She moved to Toronto in 2011 and worked in arts sector fundraising before returning to her studies in 2016 to complete a master’s in Information Science with a dual concentration in Archives and Records Management (ARM) and Library and Information Science (LIS) at the University of Toronto’s iSchool. Since graduating in 2019, she has worked at the University of Victoria as a fine arts librarian, while continuing to pursue her arts practice.

Collage Art and Writing
Sofia’s Peace Corps service from 2006-2008 was heavily influential on her direction and arts practice – a fact she has often cited in media interviews. While living in central Macedonia in the country’s central wine region, she volunteered with a local oyster mushroom-growers collective and a traditional woodcarver’s association, in addition to teaching grant-writing and English to adults.

While serving in the Peace Corps, she traveled to Zagreb, where she met Croatian collage artist David Maljkovic. According to interviews, she credits this experience as integral to her decision to pursue collage art more seriously. It was during this time that Sofia began experimenting with materials and produced the collages and story lines that would eventually become the first two of three published children’s books: “Mushrooms for Mae”, published in 2016 by Annick, and “Beeker and Bock Go To the Meadow”, published in 2018, also by Annick. Drawing heavily on her experiences as a volunteer, and using photographs and dried botanical samples from the region as materials, both books deal with environmental themes: namely, the benefits of waste reduction and low-impact cultivation and the danger of invasive species to native plants and animals. Both are written to appeal to children ages 4-7.

In 2019, she began work on the collages and story for her third book, “What Plants?”, which explores all the everyday things other than food that are made from plants. The book was published in 2020, also by Annick.

While Harwell had no formal training in studio art, she often credits the teachers and fellow students in the various short-term workshops she has taken as guiding her on her journey, including people she has met at the Penland School of Crafts, Haystack and the OCAD U continuing studies program.

In 2022, she began to branch out into fiction writing for adult audiences and took a yearlong creative writing class, “The Big One”, at Firefly Creative Writing in Toronto, Ontario. She has since returned to children’s writing and will be publishing a fourth book in spring of 2026.

Annie Harrar is a graduate student at the University of Toronto, pursuing a Master of Information degree with a concentration in Archives and Records Management. Harrar earned their Bachelor of Arts Degree at Connecticut College in 2017 with a double major in Gender and Women's Studies and Philosophy. After completing their undergraduate degree, they pursued a brief career in litigation as a paralegal before beginning their postgraduate studies in September 2023.

Luke Harasen was born in Regina, Saskatchewan and continued to live there until enrolling at the University of Toronto in 2018.

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.

Emily Galluzzo is a graduate student at the University of Toronto’s iSchool pursuing a Master of Information in Archives and Records Management and is currently a volunteer archivist at the Ontario Jewish Archives. Galluzzo was born on July 17, 2002, in Mississauga Ontario, where she grew up. Upon graduation, Galluzzo moved to London, Ontario, to pursue a Bachelor of Arts with an Honours Specialization in Media, Information, and Technoculture at Western University from September 2020 to May 2024. During her undergraduate degree, Galluzzo was a co-op student at Western University’s Archives and Special Collections from September 2023 to April 2024, a role that inspired her current academic pursuits at the iSchool. At Western University, she was a sports columnist at the student-run newspaper, the Western Gazette from February 2022 to April 2022. While at Western University, she also contributed to the Purple Spur Society’s Charity Fashion Show as a Clothing Stylist from September 2023 to April 2024.