Editor
Once upon a time a journalist at the (now defunct) local weekly The Camrose Canadian, Amielle Christopherson's day job is managing an indepedent food cooperative. When not editing, writing, or sorting through organic produce, she can be found cooking, reading, or desperately trying to keep her 'to read' pile under control.
Publisher
John Cameron worked as production manager and editor-in-chief at the Carillon at the University of Regina; since then, he has had work published in the Prairie Dog and Vice. When he isn’t reading about racial justice, climate, and labour issues, he’s usually bothering his cat or braising something in a Dutch oven. You can find him on Twitter at @warmandpunchy.
Copy editor
Jenn Harris loves many things: collective resistance to systemic oppression; delivering perfectly punctuated, grammatically correct material to her clients; trail running; her bicycle; being involved in her community; dancing; and apples.
Fact-checkers
Emma Schultz is a born and bred Saskatchewanian. She holds a degree in environmental studies and has a passion for Saskatchewan ecosystems. You’ll often find her sprucing up her tree identification skills, while deleafing alternative facts.
Erin Baird resides on the territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Nations. She is a writer and researcher, focusing on the social and environmental harms of resource extraction in Canada.
The Sask Dispatch’s fact-checkers also includes Olive Bestvater.
Proofreader
Kim Kovacs is a Canadian-Oxford-Dictionary-toting, red-pen-wielding, grammar-policing bibliophile who moonlights as a nitpicker (i.e. proofreader) on the Volunteer Brigade at Briarpatch and the Sask Dispatch. She is based in Regina, Treaty 4 Territory.
Web Developer
For over 15 years Derek Hogue has been designing and developing websites for radical publishers; artists and musicians; and non-profit advocacy organizations across Canada and beyond. He does this from his politically beleaguered yet economically affordable hometown of Winnipeg.
Board of Directors
The Sask Dispatch and Briarpatch are overseen by a dedicated and delightful volunteer Board of Directors. Each member is indispensable in guiding the publication through patches of rough sea and ensuring that the ship is sailing in the right direction. To contact the Chair of the Board of Directors, email chair [at] briarpatchmagazine.com.
● Alex Birrell
● Greer Brabazon
● Deidre Brandt
● John Cameron
● Meera Eragoda
● Batul Gulamhusein
● Shama Rangwala
● Connor Spencer (chair)
● Nazanin Zarepour