• Press

    October 2011 - Featured in Spacing Magazine (Fall 2011 issue), "How youth-led art project has taken off"
    October 2011 - Project featured in the Globe and Mail, "The Junctions Shows Off its Ability to Draw a Crowd"
    October 2011 - Featured on BlogTO, "The Junction Shows Off Its Storefronts"
    May 2011 - Featured in “Conversations for Change”, documentary film
    January 2011 - Featured in the Globe and Mail, “The Four Letter Word that Petrifies the Establishment”
    July 2010 - Featured in the Toronto Star, “The Future of Ontario Place”
    January 2010 - Featured in the Toronto Star, “Meet the new face of the Storefront”
    February 2009 - Featured in the Globe and Mail, “Children Design the City of their Dreams”
    February 2009 - Featured in the Globe and Mail, “Getting Playful in the World of Architecture”
    November 2007 - Winner, Mediterranean Environmental Award of the United Nations Environmental Program
    October 2007 - Selected as Global Knowledge Partnership’s Top 100 Young Global Social Entrepreneurs, Global Social Entrepreneur’s Forum
    August 2007 - Featured in the Toronto Star, “Make Money or Save the World?” 
  • Speaking engagements

    November 2011 - Speaker at PechaKucha: DesignThinkers, "DESIGN + THINK + PASSION", Toronto, ON
    October 2011 - Speaker at DiverseCity Fellows Session, "Shaping your City Region", Toronto, ON
    September 2011 - Speaker at Center for City Ecology's CityBuilders Camp, "Getting people to the table: Community Design Initiatives", Toronto, ON
    May 2011 - Host/Speaker at Design With Dialogue, “Play with Impact”, Toronto, ON
    February 2011 - Speaker at Public Policy Forum’s Workplace 2.0 Forum, “Engaging the Government with Play”, 
    Ottawa, ON
    November 2010 - Speakerat Public Policy Forum’s Ideas Festival, “Using Design and Play for Impact”, St. Andrews, NB
    November 2010 - Speaker at TEDxQueens, “Playing in the World of Architecture”, Kingston, ON
    November 2010 - Speaker at University of Toronto City Centre’s Tower Renewal Symposium, “Community. Design. Initiative.”, Toronto, ON
    September 2010 - Speaker at People Plan Toronto’s “A City for Everyone” conference at Ryerson University, “Legislating Beauty in the Official Plan”
    March 2010 - Speaker at Treehouse Talk at MaRS Discovery District, "Design and Social Change", Toronto, ON