charles c smith  – CPAMO’s Executive Director, has worked as an executive in municipal government, the legal profession,  the human rights tribunal and arts organizations and as professor in post-secondary education arts administration programs.  He has developed/ implemented policies/programs that address Indigenous and racialized communities on such items as employment equity, human rights, immigrant settlement, Indigenous self-determination and artistic expression.  He has developed/delivered educational change programs and authored many reports, including assessments and evaluations.  In the arts he has written equity evaluation/audit reports for the Toronto International Film Festival, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Presents, Sony Centre for the Arts, Ontario Association of Art Galleries, Media Arts Network Ontario, Ontario College and Art and Design University, the University of Toronto Scarborough, and the National Arts Services Organizations.

Kevin A. Ormsby – CPAMO’s Program Manager has worked with boards/committees of the Toronto Arts Council, NIA Centre for the Performing Arts, Prologue to the Performing Arts, and the Canadian Dance Assembly. Experienced in the teaching methods of the Critical Response Process, Kevin has worked with CPAMO on the initiatives noted in item #13 above and has used his marketing and communications knowledge and skills to support CPAMO’s networking and information sharing through social media.  He has also contributed to and written reports for CPAMO addressing issues of collaboration and partnerships to engage Indigenous and racialized communities in arts activities.

Taiwo Afolabi holds the Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre; Director, Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET), and an Assistant Professor at the University of Regina. He is an artist, qualitative researcher, theatre manager, applied theatre practitioner and educator with a decade of experience working across a variety of creative and community contexts in over dozen countries across four continents. He researches, creates works, performs, and teaches at the intersection of performance and human ecology. His research interests lie in the areas of applied theatre and policing, social justice, decolonization, art leadership and management, migration, and the ethics of conducting arts-based research. Dr. Afolabi has co-edited two books and published articles in various books and reputable journals. He is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) and the founding artistic director of Theatre Emissary International.