Lindsay Bell is an assistant professor of anthropology at SUNY, Oswego. Her interests are grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork in communities touched by large-scale resource development in Circumpolar North America. She is interested in the life and work of northerners of all stripes and has over 12 years of experience working north of 60 (NWT and Alaska).  She first came north to teach fourth grade in Aklavik, Northwest Territories and then moved to Hay River to teach in French at Ecole Borelae. Fascinated by the NWT’s many cultures, she went on to earn an MA in Cross-Cultural Education and Applied Linguistics form the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She earned her PhD at the University of Toronto in 2013. Her dissertation was based on a year of fieldwork with people trying to find and keep work during resource highs and lows in the NWT. She lived in Hay River’s only High Rise and is currently writing a book about it. If you are from Hay River, you may know Lindsay as the first “jazzercise lady”. You can read more about her academic work here.

Jesse Colin Jackson is a Canadian artist based in Southern California. His practice focuses on object- and image-making as alternative modes of architectural production, appropriating and manipulating the images, forms, and conceptual apparatus found in the human landscape. Jackson has received project funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Centre for Innovation in Information Visualization and Data Driven Design, the Digital Media Research and Innovation Institute, and the Ontario Arts Council. He is a 2014 Hellman Fellow at the University of California, and was a 2008 Howarth-Wright Fellow at the University of Toronto. Jackson is an assistant professor in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine; he taught previously at the University of Toronto and OCAD University. Jesse Colin Jackson is represented by Pari Nadimi Gallery in Toronto. His most recent solo show received a full-page review in The Globe and Mail.

Kaili Morris is an undergraduate student in Anthropology and Creative Writing at SUNY, Oswego. She is from Buffalo, New York. Her interests in anthropology stem from a desire to learn about diversity and inequality and promote understanding between people. She spends as much time as she can writing, traveling and playing rugby.