Annetta is an academic and arts management professional with over twenty years experience in the culture and heritage sectors in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. She has significant expertise in cultural policy and strategic planning, festival and event management, and cultural production management, and is passionate about fostering engaging, transformative learning communities. 

Annetta is currently the Associate Dean, Film, Acting & Media Production at Humber College, Toronto, where she manages the academic processes for undergraduate and graduate programs across Film & Media Production, Film and Television Post-Production, Multi-Platform StoryTelling, Broadcasting in Radio, Broadcast Television, Acting for Stage and Screen, and Theatre Production.

In her most recent role as an assistant professor in MacEwan University’s Arts and Cultural Management program, Annetta has served as department chair, developed articulation agreements with international institutions, led the creation of a new Bachelor of Fine Arts and an interdisciplinary fine arts program, and conducted research leading to the development of a mentorship program for graduates of MacEwan’s Faculty of Fine Art and Communication. She is the host and producer of Artful Conversations, a podcast created to augment MacEwan’s arts management curriculum. 

Prior to MacEwan, Annetta taught at Christchurch Polytech Institute of Technology (New Zealand) and guest lectured at Robert Gordon University (Scotland). She maintains a freelance consultancy as a cultural sector manager, researcher, and policy and strategic planner. 

Annetta is completing her PhD in Cultural Policy at Queen Margaret University, Scotland, where she is investigating the effects of the UK’s City of Culture bidding process on cultural-led regeneration. She holds a Master of Arts Management from the Australian Institute of Music and a Bachelor of Social Work and graduate diploma in Adolescent Health and Welfare from the University of Melbourne.

Paul Johnston

Paul moved to Montreal from Ottawa in 1990 to study jazz bass at McGill University. Before completing his studies he began working at clubs and festivals as well as on radio and television in eastern Canada.

He was a founding member of the jazz group Panache, with whom he won a Jazz Report award for jazz vocal group of the year in 1996. Following his graduation (B.Mus) he remained in Montreal playing with some of the Canada's finest jazz musicians including: Andre White, Kevin Dean, Geoff Lapp, Dave Turner, Charles Ellison and Ranee Lee.

He returned to McGill to study sound recording in 1999. In 2001 Paul completed the highly regarded M. Mus in sound recording. He won three of four downbeat student awards for recording during his masters program. While remaining on the jazz scene as a bass player, he branched out as a producer/engineer.

Paul has recorded and produced some of Canada's finest CDs for labels: Justin Time, Effendi, Annalecta, Addo, Origin (US), Inner Circle (US), Whirlwind (UK), Cellar Live, Bent River Records, Chronograph as well as many independent releases. He has engineered and produced 10 Juno nominated projects, five of which have won: Christine Jensen's Treelines and Habitat, Sonia Johnson's Le Carre de nos Amours, Joel Miller’s Swim, Mike Rud’s Notes on Montreal.

In 2014 Paul was a new full time hire as head of recording at MacEwan University in Edmonton. His enthusiasm for music and recording has a new facet within his role as an educator. At MacEwan Paul played a central role in establishing and running Bent River Records and introducing a Recording and Production major to the Bachelor of Music program. He continues to perform as a bassist. Notable performances include accompanying: PJ Perry, Chris Andrew, Harry Allen, Ted Nash, Bob Sheppard, Grace Kelly, Pat LaBarbera, Steve Amirault, Mike Rud and Joel Miller.

Katrina Ingram is the Founder and CEO of Ethically Aligned AI and is a Arts and Cultural Management sessional faculty member at MacEwan University. A seasoned executive, she has over two decades of experience running both not-for-profit and corporate organizations in the technology and media sectors with experience in the public sector.  

Heather Fitzsimmons Frey is an assistant professor in arts and cultural management at MacEwan University on Treaty Six territory. Her primary focus in the arts and cultural sector is young people. Heather is currently a co-investigator in several multi-site, SSHRC-funded projects, including Youthsites examining arts organizations focused on multi-barriered youth in Toronto, Vancouver, and London, England.  

Robin Nelson is an assistant professor in arts and cultural management at MacEwan University on Treaty Six territory. Their research considers subnational community museum policy, service organizations, and heritage commemoration policy. Robin is also an affiliate professor with the Cultural Policy Research Network and a board member of the journal Culture and Local Governance. 

Caroline Cotter is a bilingual visual arts administrator with ten years of experience working in the Ontario nonprofit art sector. She holds a BFA in Art History from Concordia University and is currently an Art History MA candidate at Queen's University researching 19th century British looting in Abyssinia (Ethiopia).