Creative Industries in Canada

Dr. Cheryl Thompson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Performance at The Creative School. She is author of two books, Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty (2021) and Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture (2019). She specializes in the intersectional study of race, visual culture, and representation. In addition to writing for the New York Times, she is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Spacing, Herizons, The Conversation, and multiple other news sites. Thompson has a PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University and is a former Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (2016–2018) at the University of Toronto.(2019).

Dr. Miranda Campbell is an Associate Professor in Creative Industries at The Creative School in Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on creative employment, youth culture, and small-scale and emerging forms of creative practice. She is the author of Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care (2022) and How to Care More: Seven Skills for Personal and Social Change (2022). Her book, Out of the Basement: Youth Cultural Production in Practice and in Policy (2013) was shortlisted for the Donner Prize for the best public policy book by a Canadian. Her involvement with creative communities includes coordination and Board of Director roles with Rock Camp for Girls Montreal and with WhipperSnapper Gallery, an artist-run centre focusing on emerging artists in Toronto.