Time Travel Wheels

Contributors

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Jennifer Chatsick

Plain Language Expert

Jennifer Chatsick (RSW, MSW) is a professor at Humber College in Toronto. She has over 20 years of experience working with adult learners in community-based literacy programs and at the college level. Her work focuses on providing accessible and inclusive education.

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CNIB Beyond Print

Braille Publishing

CNIB Beyond Print is one of Canada’s oldest and most experienced producers of accessible materials, with over a century of lived experience through CNIB. We are global industry experts in the leading accessible literacy formats and keep the needs of the print disabled community at the forefront of our work. We produce braille, electronic publications and audiobook materials for individuals and organization across Canada.

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Creative Users Projects

As a disability-led, national arts service organization, our online programs and services help connect people with a mission to broaden knowledge about accessible practice, increase opportunities for artists and help Deaf and disabled artists get discovered no matter where we live.

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Yhasmina Garcia

Audio/Video Editor

Yhasmina Garcia Martinez is a media content creator based in Toronto. She has been involved in media for over 10 years in a variety of roles, including research, videography, editing, photojournalism, and production. She values inclusion and access in every project.

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Kate McDermott

Book Designer

Kate McDermott is a Toronto-based designer, passionate about branding, collaborative experimentation, and making work that brings people together.

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Varvara Nedilska

Book Illustrator

Varvara Nedilska is a Ukrainian-Canadian artist and illustrator based in Toronto. They like to work with narratives and attempt to express the unexplainable.

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Julie McGonegal

Editor

Julie McGonegal is a writer, editor, and journalist in Guelph, Ont. As the parent of a child with a recently acquired physical disability, she is learning anew about the importance of survivors sharing their stories, exchanging knowledge, and finding community. Julie can be reached through her website.

The logo for Toronto Sign Language Interpreter Service, which is two blue hands making the symbol for the word okay, within a circle. Underneath in capitalized serif font, it reads TSLIS. There is a small red maple leaf to the right of the circle.

TSLIS

American Sign Language Interpreters

Toronto Sign Language Interpreter Service provides Sign Language services and communication accessibility across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to the Deaf and hard of hearing individuals who use sign language.

Providing communication accessibility is an essential service that can only be provided by qualified, trained, skilled individuals which we employ and assign to each interaction needing accessible services.

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Erika Verhagen

Audiobook Narrator

Erika Verhagen is a writer and artist based in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Peripheral Review, Cornelia Magazine, and LEVELER Poetry.

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Hannah Zbitnew

Project Manager

Hannah Zbitnew is a textile artist and writer based in Toronto. She is an MA candidate at the Royal College of Art as of Fall 2023.