Our Team
Paula Gallo
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annie vandenberg
Paula Gallo B.Ed., M.Sc.Pl. co-creates resilient and participatory urban communities. She has spent nearly two decades designing innovative engagement experiences, programs, and child-friendly spaces for adults, children, and youth.
Paula has built healthier and more connected communities with schools, municipalities, and businesses throug
Paula Gallo B.Ed., M.Sc.Pl. co-creates resilient and participatory urban communities. She has spent nearly two decades designing innovative engagement experiences, programs, and child-friendly spaces for adults, children, and youth.
Paula has built healthier and more connected communities with schools, municipalities, and businesses through work with Metro Vancouver, UNICEF Canada, Save the Children Sweden, and Evergreen.
She co-created UNICEF Canada’s Rights Respecting Schools initiative, Evergreen’s Professional Learning
for Educators, and Evergreen’s Child-Friendly Placemaking and Participatory Design Model.
annie vandenberg
annie vandenberg
annie vandenberg
Annie Vandenberg, B.Ed., lives in Tkaronto and designs inclusive participatory programs for social and climate resilience. She is passionate about building capacity and fostering community agency through art, nature, and education. A children's story author, she believes in the power of storytelling and weaves this into programs.
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Annie Vandenberg, B.Ed., lives in Tkaronto and designs inclusive participatory programs for social and climate resilience. She is passionate about building capacity and fostering community agency through art, nature, and education. A children's story author, she believes in the power of storytelling and weaves this into programs.
Annie has over 15 years’ experience developing and creating immersive and experiential programs that respond to community needs and wants.
She has built inclusive spaces managing Evergreen’s Public Art Program, Children’s Educational programs, and Ravine programs. She played a lead role transforming Evergreen Brick Works into a climate-resilient public space.
collaborators
A queer multidisciplinary artist and community-engaged facilitator, renowned for their joyful use of vibrant colour and dedication to supporting healing through playful murals, collaborative public art projects, and embodied movement.
A collaboration between landscape designer Katie Strang and visual artist Christine Dewancker.
A multi-disciplinary Kurdish-Canadian artist.
Illustrator from Hong Kong illustrating illustrations.
A Polish-Canadian artist with a passion for visual storytelling. Gosia is inspired by ornate symbols and patterns of identity.
A multidisciplinary artist living in Toronto, Canada. Leah works in drawing, printmaking, and ceramics, and facilitates large scale collaborative projects for community groups.
Janet Hinkle is an interdisciplinary artist with a practice rooted in both contemporary fine art and craft
An engagement and facilitation specialist, evaluator, and innovation designer.
A community-engaged artist and artistic producer.
Peter Demakos (aka Pete Moss)
An acclaimed children's musician, child & adolescent psychotherapist candidate, and practicing outdoor educator. His nature songs have been featured on CBC As it Happens, Chickadee Magazine & CityTV.
Co-creating complete and liveable environments with clients and the community. Their process is highly collaborative, fully engaged and dedicated to innovation and excellence in design.
Evergreen is a chartable organization working to create cities that are livable, green and prosperous.
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is the largest and one of the most diverse school boards in Canada. We serve approximately 238,000 students in nearly 600 schools throughout Toronto, and more than 100,000 life-long learners in our Adult and Continuing Education programs.
A cultural platform that explores critical ideas and concerns of our time through exhibitions, publications, performances, literary events and digital initiatives.
Camp Gedi is a Toronto camp that instills a lifelong commitment to learning equipping campers to make a positive impact on the world around them.