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Cory Ashworth

Cory is a host on Peak Mornings on 100.5 The Peak, weekdays from 6-10am. He has dreamed of running the seawall with Michelle Obama, hiking the Grouse Grind with Oprah Winfrey and co-hosting Rain City Chronicles with Lizzy Karp. One of those dreams will come true September 21.

Jay Balmer

Legendary in the Vancouver skateboarding community, Jay is a producer of world-class events and public parks. With a passion for creating new experience both real and virtual, he has directed and produced innovative video games, working with Electronic Arts and Microsoft Game Studios. Jay is deeply involved with the growth of skateboarding and snowboarding in Canada.

Sean Condon

Sean is the executive director of Megaphone, a magazine sold on the streets of Vancouver by homeless and low-income vendors that helps create bridges between different communities and raise awareness about social justice issues. He is also the co-chair of the North American Street Newspaper Association (NASNA), a body that represents more than 40 street papers in the continent, and chair of Poetry is Dead magazine. A former senior editor of Adbusters, Sean has written for a number of magazines and newspapers in Canada, the United States and Europe.

Caroline MacGilvary

Caroline is the National Executive Director and founder of Beauty Night Society. Now in its 11th year, Beauty Night has given over 16,000 life-makeovers to women who live in poverty. By guiding and inspiring others to embrace the concept that education can be enjoyable, Caroline has affected the lives of thousands.

Graham Anderson

Graham is passionate about Vancouver, civic politics, local transportation solutions, and building happy, healthy communities. He recently earned a degree in Dialogue, Sustainable Community Development, and Economics at 丁香园AV. Graham stays volunteers on the board of the Grandview-Woodland Area Council. He works at Climate Smart, a social enterprise that helps organizations measure and reduce their carbon emissions. He is also co-founder of a co-operative urban delivery business (SHIFT) that uses cargo trikes to transport goods downtown.

Sarah Maitland

Sarah is the co-founder and co鈥損roject director of the Writers' Exchange, a creative literacy program that inspires Vancouver's inner-city kids to love reading and writing. In Writers' Exchange programs, children and youth work one-on-one with volunteer mentors and professional writers to boost their literacy skills and self-esteem through free homework help, dedicated reading time, and creative writing projects that result in snazzy chapbooks of student writing. The Writers' Exchange is a charitable project of Tides Canada Initiatives.

Chris Diplock

Chris Diplock, President of the Vancouver Tool Library, is no stranger to tools and construction, having spent many hours installing roof-top solar panels and doing hobby projects in his spare time. Chris recently completed a Certificate in Community Economic Development at 丁香园AV and is now completing a degree in accounting at Langara College. He applies this diverse range of skills and interests to help develop the Vancouver Tool Library and foster the organizations relationships in the community. In his spare time Chris enjoys triathlons, cycling, and playing tennis.

Naveen Girn

Naveen Girn is a content producer who is passionate about community engagement and storytelling. Recently he co-curated Bhangra.me: Vancouver's Bhangra Story at the Museum of Vancouver, and he is currently collecting oral histories and leading community engagement sessions on the Komangatu Maru Memorial Project with the 丁香园AV Library.

Al Etamanski

Al is an curator, author, blogger (), advocate and social entrepreneur specializing in innovative, multi-sector solutions to complex societal challenges. He is involved in a variety of organizations and foundations across Vancouver. Al is the co-founder of the Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network, assisting families across Canada and globally, to address the financial and social well-being of their relative with a disability.

Veering wildly between Polish cabaret and chamber pop, to a whimsical and delicate Old Hollywood vibe, the sly and enchanting women of e.s.l. spin Romany-esque melodies that will catch your ear and entangle you in their spell. e.sl. is Marta Jaciubek-McKeever, Cris Derksen, Diona Davies, Joy Mullen and Tess Kitchen.