Maggie Chang (she/her) is a poet, writer, and artist whose environmental journey started in first grade when she learned about deforestation of the Amazon in school. Since then, Maggie has organized a UN Sustainable Development Goal training, served on the NRCAN Youth Council, and became Co-Chair of the City of Toronto Climate Advisory group. She is a certified WWF Canada Living Planet Leader and a Top 25 Under 25 Environmentalist. Her work has been shown at the Trajectories of Now Arts Showcase, and has over ten publications in literary magazines, anthologies and festivals, including Faces to the Sun, Held Magazine, and Springworks Tapashta. In her spare time, she loves discovering all the great food in the city and snapping photos of cool places.

Victoria Bao Wang (any) is a writer, researcher, and organizer who believes in the power of storytelling to generate the cultural impetus for structural change towards sustainability and justice. Raised by a handful of different cities but rooted in Toronto since birth, Victoria has always wondered what it might mean for a place to be a home. After three warm winters in a row, she realized that the landscapes of her childhood were becoming something unfamiliar. This personal sense of loss and urgency drew her to the human dimensions of the climate crisis, a phenomenon that is as much cultural and spiritual as it is environmental. Victoria strives to understand and transform the relationship between people, power, and land. In addition to writing solarpunk fiction, Victoria also works on community-based environmental justice research and organizes community-led stewardship. When Victoria isn’t working, she’s eating and sipping (indulgently). When she isn’t doing that, she’s hunting for jewelry at art markets. And through it all, she’s singing her silly little tunes, because she really loves to sing.

MJ Torres (she/her) is an advocate. From a young age, MJ has been passionate about pursuing a career in the environmental sector. However, she knew it would be difficult to achieve in Colombia, her native land, where corruption prevails. With high hopes, she moved to Canada and to her surprise she faced discrimination in the industry as an immigrant and a person with a disability, which opened her eyes to the importance of tackling the climate crisis with a social impact lens. MJ has used her unique positionality to advocate for racialized communities like hers, creating positive change alongside organizations like the Green Career Centre, Spur Change, and the Ontario Environment Network. In her spare time, MJ loves making puzzles and building legos.