Brooke Leifso (she/her) is a Disabled/Crip performance producer, Expressive Art Practitioner and academic. She has worked in a producing/admistrative capacity with: Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Theatre Yes, Ground Zero Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, Azimuth Theatre, CRIPSiE, Jumblies Theatre (Toronto). She has also performed with Edmonton Actors Theatre (Faerie Queen, Burning Bluebeard), Moon At Midnight (ensemble member, Dance Prairie Circuit). As an Expressive Art Practitioner, she uses a multi-disciplinary approach to facilitate therapeutic Community Art programming—how can art build social healing and cohesion? She is the Justice Artistic Director at Robertson-Wesley United Church through the Spirited Arts Program, a secular outreach initiative that creates opportunity to build community around Social Justice topics such as workshops about burn out, gender-based violence, Queer politics, conflict theories and reconciliation. She has also worked in this capacity with high risk youth, the disability community and the theatre community. Brooke has a Masters in Expressive Arts – Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding from the Swiss-based European Graduate School. When she’s not facilitating art projects, she works as an applied researcher for NorQuest College. She is the Lead Researcher for the Autism CanTech! Project, a national, federally funded employment project that helps Autistic youth gain meaningful employment within the digital sector.