Authors

RONA ARATO is a former teacher and an award-winning author of over fifteen books for children and young adults, including fiction, non-fiction, and historical fiction including Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis. Rona is a frequent speaker at schools and community organizations. Rona lives in Toronto, Ontario.

ANDREW BOMBERRY is the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Sixties Scoop. He has over ten years’ experience working in public policy and education covering Indigenous histories, cultures and identities. Andrew Bomberry is Haudenosaunee from the Six Nations of the Grand River territory. He lives in Toronto (the Dish with One Spoon territory).

DR. LINDSAY BRANT is Associate Director of Indigenous Curriculum Development at Queen’s University, teaching in the Master of Health Professions Education program and working with the Weeneebayko Health Education Campus project. She is also a
storyteller, writer and poet. She is the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs Resource Guide for Indigenous Teachers and Students. Lindsay is a member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.

JEAN SMITH CAVALLUZZO is a Toronto writer interested in social justice issues and the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War. She has degrees in sociology and social work as well as a diploma in journalism. Her articles have appeared in Chatelaine, the Toronto Star, Eye-talian Magazine, and the Globe and Mail. She has also written for CBC radio. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

ARLENE CHAN, a third-generation Chinese Canadian, is a retired librarian and author of non-fiction works for children, young adults, and adults on Chinese festivals and the Chinese in Canada – including Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax and Anti-Chinese Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century. An avid dragon boat racer and gold-medalist on the Canadian National Women’s Dragon Boat Team, she lives, writes, and paddles in Toronto.

TERESA EDWARDS is the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Sixties Scoop and is a member of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation in Quebec. Her ceremonial name is Young Fire Woman, a name that she strives to fulfill through her work as an International Human Rights Lawyer. Teresa is a mother to three amazing souls – Ashley, Dakota, and Derek, and the grandmother (Giju) to Alivia and Avery, who all inspire her to work towards bringing equity to Indigenous Peoples by improving socio-economic conditions and their overall well-being. For over 30 years, she has been a strong advocate for Indigenous Peoples by championing changes in programs, policy, and legislation from within government and while working with National Indigenous Organizations such as the Assembly of First Nations, Native Women’s Association of Canada, and from within her own legal practice. Teresa has been the Executive Director and In-House Legal Counsel for the Legacy of Hope Foundation (LHF) for 5 1/2 years. The LHF is a national Indigenous-led charitable organization founded in 2000 with the goal of educating and raising awareness about the history and existing intergenerational impacts of the Residential and Day School System, Sixties Scoop, and other colonial acts of oppression so as to address racism and injustices in Canada.

MELANIE FLORENCE is a proud Cree and a full-time writer currently based in Toronto. She is the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools. As a freelance journalist, Melanie’s byline has appeared in magazines including Dance International, Writer, Parents Canada, and Urban Male Magazine.

MASAKO FUKAWA lived in Steveston, BC until the forced evacuation in 1942. She is the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War. Masako has worked as a teacher and principal. She lives in Burnaby, BC.

Jana Girdausksa (B.Ed., OCT) is a First Nations Educator with over 20 years of teaching experience. She is a Band Member of the Mohawks Bay of Quinte, resides on Treaty 13, and she is a proud mother of two children. She is the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs Resource Guide for Indigenous Teachers and Students.

Kyle Herbert is an educator with the York Region District School Board with over 10 years of teaching experience living in Simcoe County. He is an off-reserve band member of Rama First Nation and a proud father of two smart, strong, beautiful kwe. Kyle is the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs Resource Guide for Indigenous Teachers and Students.

PAMELA HICKMAN is the author of over forty non-fiction books for children. She co-authored the first book in this series, Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War and continued to work on the series with other titles such as The Komagata Maru and Canada’s Anti-Indian Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century. She lives in Canning, Nova Scotia.

Sherry Procunier, better known by her students as Kawennanó:ron, has been a Mohawk language and cultural instructor for the past 30 years at Quinte Mohawk School. She is a member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and resides in Tyendinaga Mohawk
Territory. Sherry is the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs Resource Guide for Indigenous Teachers and Students. “Nya:wen for the opportunity to collaborate with other Indigenous instructors on this teacher guide.”

KEN SETTERINGTON is the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The LGBT Purge, Mom and Mum are Getting Married and Branded by the Pink Triangle, winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Literature and a Stonewall Honor from the American Library Association. He is the former Children and Youth Advocate for the Toronto Public Library and received the Meritorious Service Medal from the Governor General of Canada in 2017 for his work bringing children and literature together. He lives with his partner in Toronto.

FRANK TESTER is the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Inuit Relocations. Frank is a writer, filmmaker, researcher and photographer who has worked extensively in the eastern Arctic with Inuit youth and communities. He has worked for the Qikiqtani Truth Commission and the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He is an Adjunct Professor of Department of Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba. Frank lives in Vancouver, BC.

KRISTA ULUJUK ZAWADSKI is the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Inuit Relocations. Kristais an Inuk who has focused her education and career on Arctic anthropology and archaeology, museology and collections-based research. She holds a Master’s Degree in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia and is a PhD candidate at Carleton University in Ottawa. Krista is from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut.

GLORIA ANN WESLEY holds the distinction of being Nova Scotia’s first published Black poet and is the author of Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Africville. She is a trained teacher and has taught at all grade levels. Gloria resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia.