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Cortney Dakin
Cortney Dakin is a Two-Spirited Didikai Métis spoken word artist and community organizer in London, Ontario.
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Carol Rose Daniels
Carol Rose Daniels is the Saskatchewan author of the award-winning novel Bearskin Diary. Her first book of poetry, Hiraeth, will be released in early 2018 by Inanna Publications. Carol is also a Cree and Dene artist who works with storytelling, singing, drumming, and visual art. Previously, she worked as a television and radio journalist for over 30 years at APTN, CTV, and CBC.
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Saba Dar
Saba Dar is a freelance writer and has worked on a number of environmental projects related to water conservation and water stewardship.
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Claudia Dávila
Claudia Dávila draws comics and illustrates children’s books, focusing on her new graphic novel “Luz Sees the Light.” She lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter.
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Angela Day
Angela Day is a writer, activist and educator rooted in the East Coast. She recently finished an MA in international development.
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Stephanie Dearing
Writer, mother, amateur photographer and environmentalist, Stephanie Dearing lives in Guelph.
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Regan de Loggans
Regan de Loggans (Mississippi Choctaw/Ki’Che Maya) is a two-spirit agitator, art historian, curator, and educator based in so-called Brooklyn, New York, on Lenape land.
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Susana Deranger
Susana Deranger is a member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and has been an activist and an educator involved in First Nations and human rights for a great part of her life. Susana lives in Regina, Saskatchewan and is a mother of four children and a grandmother of four grandchildren.
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Saima Desai
Saima Desai was the editor of Briarpatch Magazine from 2018 to 2022. She's currently on a one-year leave from Briarpatch. She’s a settler living on Dish With One Spoon territory, and her family is originally from Gujarat, India.
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Evelyn Deshane
Evelyn Deshane has appeared in Plenitude Magazine and the Rusty Toque, and is forthcoming in Tesseracts 19: Superhero Universe. Evelyn (pronounced Eve-a-lyn) received an MA from Trent University and is currently studying for a PhD at Waterloo University. For more information, see evedeshane.wordpress.com
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Annette Aurelie Desmarais
Annette Aurélie Desmarais teaches in the Department of Justice Studies at the University of Regina. She is the author of La Vía Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants, co-published in 2007 by Fernwood Publishing and Pluto Books.
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Laurence Desmarais
Laurence Desmarais is a Montréal-based community organizer and PhD student at Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
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Cynthia Dewi Oka
Hailing from Bali, Indonesia, and Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories, Cynthia Dewi Oka is a New Jersey-based poet, editor, activist, mom, and the author of Nomad of Salt and Hard Water.
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Jessica DeWitt
Jessica DeWitt is a historian of Canadian and American environmental history. She specializes in park history.
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Simran Kaur Dhunna
Simran Kaur Dhunna is currently studying medicine at Queen’s University. She is a member of Naujawan Support Network.
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Matthew DiMera
Matthew DiMera (they/he) is the founder and publisher of The Resolve, a new independent media outlet in Canada centring, elevating and celebrating Indigenous, Black, and people of colour voices and stories. They are a long-time advocate for the importance and power of social justice and community journalism.
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Yutaka Dirks
Yutaka Dirks is a tenant rights organizer, journalist and writer whose work can be found in Alberta Views, THIS, rabble.ca, Ricepaper Magazine, the Journal of Law and Social Policy, and elsewhere.
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Gerard Di Trolio
Gerard Di Trolio is a PhD candidate in labour studies at McMaster University.
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Chris Dixon
Chris Dixon is originally from Alaska and a longtime anarchist organizer, writer, and educator. He lives in Ottawa, unceded Algonquin territory, where he is a member of the Punch Up collective.
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Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land
Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land is an assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of Winnipeg and a collective member of Bar None, a prisoner-solidarity group based in Winnipeg.
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Lydia Dobson
Lydia Dobson is a prisoners' justice organizer and founding member of the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project and Toronto Prisoners' Rights Project. She is the co-Director of the Prison Law Practicum at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and teaches prison abolition at Carleton University.
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Ryan Dodington
Ryan Dodington is an export of Kitchener-Waterloo, ON, who aspires to visit every corner of Canada. He currently lives, works and writes in Regina, SK.
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Katie Doke Sawatzky
Katie Doke Sawatzky is a settler freelance journalist living in Regina on Treaty 4 territory and the homeland of the Métis. For her graduate research project, she created a multi-media website about the state of native prairie in Saskatchewan and the grassroots folks protecting it, at prairiecommons.ca.
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Isabeau Doucet
Isabeau Doucet is a freelance reporter, TV producer, writer, and video journalist who spent a year in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake investigating stories for Al Jazeera English, the Guardian, the Nation, and Haiti Liberté, among others.
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Chloe Dragon Smith
Chloe Dragon Smith was born and raised in Somba K’é (Yellowknife), Denendeh (Northwest Territories). Of Métis, German, Dënesųłiné, and French heritage, her mother is Brenda Dragon and her father is Leonard Smith. A dreamer and a poet at heart, she is always thinking about relationships between Lands and Peoples. Her work varies from education and on-the-Land learning to Indigenous-led conservation to climate change. True to her multilayered heritage, she feels a sense of responsibility to help create balance and build bridges and relationships in all she does.
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Hannah Dwyer
Hannah Dwyer lives on Sinixt, Syilx, and Ktunaxa land and labours toward reproductive sovereignty in her work as a farmer/food system advocate and as a doula and sexual/reproductive health educator. Her practice on both fronts is deeply informed by her Judaism and her endometriosis. She wants nothing more than for all people and communities – human and otherwise – to be able to live and make life on their own terms in perpetuity.
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Erika Dyck
Erika Dyck is a professor and a Canada Research Chair in the History of Health & Social Justice at the University of Saskatchewan.
