LEAD RESEARCHER

Janis Thiessen is the principal investigator of the SSHRC-funded Manitoba Food History Project. Their books include Snacks: A Canadian Food History and they teach History at the University of Winnipeg.

PODCAST PRODUCER

Kent Davies is an Adjunct Professor and Technician at the Oral History Centre at the University of Winnipeg. He has extensive background in radio broadcasting and is the primary researcher of the Harvest Moon Society Oral History Project.

CO-AUTHOR

Leah Kuragano (she/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar and Assistant Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg. Her research interests include settler colonial critique, the Indigenous-led politics of decolonization and cultural resurgence, and Asian diasporic relationships to place in the United States, Hawaiʻi, and (more recently) Canada.

CO-AUTHOR

Karen Froman is of mixed Kanyen’keha:ka (Mohawk) and Irish/English/Dutch ancestry, and a member of Six Nations of the Grand River Territory who was born and raised in Winnipeg. She currently holds the rank of Associate Professor in the Dept. of History at the University of Winnipeg. Her research interests include 20th Century / contemporary urban Indigenous identity and culture, and imagery and representations of Indigenous peoples in the documentary record of the National Film Board in the mid-twentieth century.

MEMOIR MENTOR

Jenny Heijun Wills is a creative writer and scholar. Born in Seoul, she was raised in southern Ontario, Canada. She teaches English at the University of Winnipeg.

MEMOIR MENTOR

Lindsay Wong is the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning, and bestselling memoir The Woo-Woo, which was a finalist for Canada Reads 2019 and won the 2019 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. Her book of short stories Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality was shortlisted for the BC and Yukon Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes. Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies is her debut adult novel, which was published in January 2026. Wong currently teaches creative writing at the University of Winnipeg.

CONSULTANT

Kimberley Moore is an Adjunct Professor and the Programming and Collections Specialist at the Oral History Centre at the University of Winnipeg.