Cora is the Founder and CEO of GreyLit, a software company that gives a voice and a stage to frontline research and information by allowing it to be searched, shared and reviewed around the world. After nearly 20 years as a Public Health Epidemiologist,…
Daniel Rotsztain is the Urban Geographer, an artist, writer and cartographer whose work examines our relationship to the places we inhabit. The author of All the Libraries Toronto, a colouring book featuring every branch of Toronto Public Library, Daniel now sits on Toronto Public…
Melissa Helwig is a Librarian at the W.K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library at Dalhousie University, primarily teaching and researching with the College of Pharmacy. She has a keen interest in the information seeking behaviours of Health Profession practitioners and students. Other areas of interest…
Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gallaudet University, a bilingual university American Sign Language and English institution serving deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing students in Washington DC. She is the only signing Deaf philosopher in the world with a doctorate in…
As writer and director of the project ARC (Action, Responsibility, Choice) theatre tour, Janice has been working to bring information about human rights and responsibilities to Nova Scotia schools since March, 2012. Through her work with project ARC, she and her cast have received…
The IWB 2018 executive is happy to announce that Katie Toth will be presenting at our conference! Katie Toth is a freelance reporter whose work has appeared in NPR, the Village Voice, VICE and the Coast. She is currently a Journalism 1001 Tutor at…
The 2018 IWB committee is happy to announce that Dr. Jason Grek Martin will be speaking at the conference! Jason Grek Martin, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography & Environmental Studies, Saint Mary’s University. I am a cultural and historical geographer and my research…
The 2018 IWB executive is excited to announce that Jennifer Grek Martin will be a speaker at our conference this year. Jennifer Grek Martin is a Lecturer at the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada and is pursuing an Interdisciplinary…
We are pleased to announce that Rebecca Ansems will be speaking at our event this year! Rebecca is a fourth year Bachelor of Computer Science student at Dalhousie University, and is the current president of Dalhousie's Women in Technology Society and Vice President Internal…
The Information Without Borders Conference committee is thrilled to announce Tami Oliphant as a keynote speaker for the 2018 conference. Tami Oliphant is an assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta. Her teaching and research interests center upon…