Farheen Beg has been an avid volunteer and patron of the TWB for over a decade. For 15 years she has worked in the non-profit sector to support children, youth, women, newcomers and communities. Farheen is also a singer and songwriter. She shares her personal, social and political perspectives in original, jazz-inspired songs at clubs and community events throughout Toronto. She feels at home at the TWB and is happy to contribute to the store in her role as a Board member.

Robyn Bourgeois (Lubicon) is an activist and academic committed to bringing
attention to violence against Aboriginal women. Though she has never worked at the TWB, Robyn adopted it as her "home" when she moved from BC in 2004. Robyn loves books, writing (both academic and poetry/fiction), cooking, hand drumming, and being auntie to her two future-activist nieces, Brooklyn and Emily. She dislikes cell phones, colonial "holidays," and cleaning her house.

Henessy Cruz is one of the recent additions to the TWB family. An active member of Philippine Advocacy Through Arts and Culture and Migrante-Ontario, she engages in Filipino community organizing that promotes and struggles for women, children, youth and migrants' rights and welfare. She values progressive ideas, learning and diversity, three pillars that she sees TWB strongly promotes.

Susan Dion is an Aboriginal scholar (Lenape/Potawatami/ French-Irish). She is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University and has been working in the field of education for twenty years. Her research interests include Aboriginal education, critical pedagogy, social and political contexts of education, pedagogies of memory, disrupting memories of post-invasion First Nations-Canadian Relations, and resistance strategies of Aboriginal girls.

Clara Ho was born in Calgary and has lived in Toronto for a number of years now. She has spent many hours at the Toronto Women's Bookstore helping out with events among other things. Clara is an advocate, an activist, and sometimes a writer. She has worked for a legal clinic, a community-based non-profit agency, and now in the wonderful world of professional regulation. Her only regret is not having more time to read books.

Kemba King is an afrakan-canadian womanist. She graduated from York University in 2002. She worked for the Centre for Women and TransPeople at York U from 2004-2007. She tutors, hosts Womyn's Word on CHRY and co-directs the Medina Collective - an organisation committed to media literacy for young women of colour. When she schedules free time she enjoys non-fiction, listening to music, writing poetry, watching Canadian television and watching documentaries. Late nights she can be caught
looking at people's pictures on networking sites.

Tanya Lai was born & raised in Singapore, and has been a proud Torontonian
since 1996. By day, Tanya is an investment professional in the field of pension management; and by night, a fanatic photographer with a passion for documenting or telling stories through the images of life around her.

May Lui worked at TWB for nine years and has been a book lover all of her life. She is a freelance consultant doing feminist anti-racist anti-oppression education and training, as well as strategic planning and other work with non-profits. May is mixed-race, a writer and blogger and her favourite authors include Dionne Brand, Wayson Choy, and Ruth Ozeki. In her spare time May enjoys Sudoku puzzles, baking and anti-racist theory.

Nik Redman is a Montreal-born, Bajan-raised, and now a Torontonian. He says one of the most amazing moments in his life was when he realized he could read. Books have been his friend ever since. He has been a customer and a supporter of TWB for many years. Nik is an activist, artist, and dj. He works at the University of Toronto and can be also be heard on afrotransit on ckln 88.1 fm.

Ashwini Tambe is Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies and History
at the University of Toronto. She was schooled in the fine art of feminist disobedience in India (where she was born and later went to college), Malaysia (where she spent her childhood), and the US (where she spent time in two Ph.D. programs). Her research focuses on colonial South Asia, gender and sexuality studies, and global political economy. She is a fairly recent transplant to Toronto from Washington DC.