Past Staff

Lisa Conway is a BC-born Swiss-Canadian composer, sound artist, songwriter, producer, and mix engineer. An artist who continually tries to push herself into the unfamiliar, her multifaceted CV includes original…

Sheetal Lodhia has worked in the public and private sectors at the intersections of strategic management, production (radio, print, video), research (qualitative, ethnographic, table), and community engagement. She is a…

Ariel is the Managing Editor of Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation, the journal under the purview of IICSI. She has formerly worked with IICSI as an assistant during…

Marie Zimmerman has worked in the realms of both theory and practice in cultural studies, having been both an academic and a festival director for over twenty years.  She has…

Richelle Forsey is an artist and photographer. Her work has been shown in Canada, the U.S. and abroad, as well as collaboratively in the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, and Scotiabank…

Justine Richardson is project manager for the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation.  She brings experience in project and partnership development with both university research environments and community-based arts and…

Elizabeth Jackson is the Acting Director of the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) at the University of Guelph. She builds on her research and teaching expertise in community engaged scholarship, practice-based…

Rachel Collins is Project Manager for the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. She formerly held the role of Administrative Assistant with the Institute and with its predecessor, the…

Kim Thorne is the project manager for the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. Previously project manager for the Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice (ICASP) research project, Kim has…