Marlo Turner Ritchie is the Executive Director of A deux mains/ Head & Hands, an organization based in NDG, Montreal. Since 1970, Head & Hands has been working with and for youth and their children to create a diverse range of empowering, holistic and harm-reductive programs and services. Prior to her tenure at H&H Marlo worked for Project 10 in Montreal and has recently sat on the Board for COCo. She looks forward to working in news ways around youth and media. Check out our website to learn more about Head & Hands!

Jos is a Health Animator with Head & Hands, a nonprofit organization in NDG dedicated to youth empowerment. Coming from a women's studies and social justice background, she provides sexual health education at a grassroots level by working closely with youth and volunteers, coordinating the Sense Project (an alternative sex ed project for high school students) and working in the medical clinic at Head & Hands. She works to promote awareness, open dialogue and sex positivity.

Lynn Worrell has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art from Concordia University. She has experience working with children and youth in schools and community settings. One of Lynn’s most recent projects was coordinating a Hip Hop literacy project for youth called W.O.R.D (Writing Our Rhymes Down) at James Lyng High school in 2008. She is a multimedia/time-based artist and is currently working on a body of work celebrating women in Hip Hop.

As community-learning coordinator at James Lyng High School Allannah has created a bond between her students school experience and their learning in the real world. She has led initiatives to bring parents back into their children's education, and to increase opportunities for creative activity through collaborations with Montreal's extensive creative scene.