Board & Staff

Board

Candice Cascanette is a Concordia Student majoring in History and First People Studies. She is interested in retracing the misinformed idea that has been creating around the formation of the current settler state of Canada.  She is interested in audio sound and media art and is involved in community radio production at CKUT. She enjoys playing and listening to old thyme, bluegrass and blues music in her spare time. candice.centre2110[at]gmail.com

A textile artist, Katie Earle studied at Concordia University in the Fibres department of the Fine Arts Faculty.  Her passion for social and economic justice arose upon the implementation of NAFTA and the resulting devastating effects of corporate and subsidized agro-business on small farmers and livelihoods across North America.  She traveled to Mexico in 2003 to learn from the Zapatista movement, where she was deeply affected by their explicitly feminist mandate, autonomous zones, and bottom-up organizing, among  other inspiring tenets of Zapatismo.  Katie has called Montréal home for six years now. katie.centre2110[at]gmail.com

Rosario Gallardo was born in Chile and moved to Montreal when she was 12 years old. Her first volunteer experience was in Cegep, for Breast Cancer Action Montreal in which she worked on a campaign for safer cosmetics for Canadian youth called Femmetoxic. She is currently studying Film Production full-time at Concordia University, with a Minor in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality.

Wendy Heitmann is a First People’s Studies major, community organizer, and mother of four. She is passionate about class and gender issues and seafood. wendy.centre2110[at]gmail.com

Courtney Kirkby has been mixing media, activism and art over the airwaves of Radio CKUT 90.3FM for the past three years, and is currently stationed there as the Community News and Volunteer Coordinator. She has been active in supporting indigenous-led campaigns for land and social justice, primarily working in solidarity with the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, the Mohawks of Tyendinaga and the Ardoch Algonquins. courtney.centre2110[at]gmail.com

Hania Souleiman is working on finishing her BFA in Art History and Studio Arts with the goal of getting her Masters in Art Therapy. She first started volunteering with Missing Justice campaign, which allowed her to develop her skills in community organizing, promotions and facilitating meetings. Her art historian practice focuses on post-colonial perspectives and on using art to reclaim public spaces. In her spare time, she enjoys baking and decorating cakes. hania.centre2110[at]gmail.com

Staff

Gabrielle Bouchard
Peer Support and Trans Advocacy Coordinator
psa[at]centre2110.org
514-848-2424 x7431

Gabrielle is 42-year-old mother. After trying to be subversive in the corporate world for more than 15 years, she started a major in Women’s Studies and a minor in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute in 2009. A former skydiver (4 years), she now gets her excitement from coordinating the Peer Support and Trans Advocacy Program.

Julie Michaud
Administrative Coordinator
info[at]centre2110.org
514-848-2424 x7431

Years ago, while working as a teacher’s assistant in a ceramics studio, Julie fell in with a group of environmentalists who saw environmental destruction as being connected to every other form of injustice. That experience changed everything for her. Julie helped found (and continues to volunteer with) the New Brunswick Media Co-op. From time to time, she’ll still make a few mugs or a teapot.

Bianca Mugyenyi
Programming and Campaigns Coordinator
campaigns[at]centre2110.org
514-937-2110

Bianca was born in Kampala, Uganda and immigrated to Canada at the age of 5. She is a writer, activist and graduate of Concordia’s Community Economic Development program. Bianca is the former chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students-Quebec and co-author of Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay.

Maya Rolbin-Ghanie
Publicity and Promotions Coordinator
promotions[at]centre2110.org
514-937-2110

Maya is a Montreal-based writer, activist, and journalist, with a focus on First Nations struggles in Canada. She grew up in the woods and loves animals, especially dogs. She is a fire sign and considers this an important fact. She has an ongoing love affair with feminist ways of thinking.