Our Staff

Paul Kim

Design Director

Paul joined The Walrus in 2005, and was previously an art director at Canadian Dimension.

Meredith Holigroski

Senior Designer

Meredith has previously worked for the Globe and Mail and Toronto Life, and as a contributing designer on publications for the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and many others.

Natalie Vineberg

Designer

While Natalie was at McGill University, she was the creative director of the McGill Tribune. She is from Montreal and worked in chocolate stores for many years.

Bryan Maloney

Director of Audience Engagement

Bryan has worked in book and magazine publishing for fourteen years.

Monita Mohan

Marketing Manager

Monita is a marketer by day and an entertainment writer by night. Previously, she was a copywriter at an ad agency working with brands like Microsoft and BlackBerry. She has also worked as a public relations professional at an international literature festival and a marketing writer at a Canadian nonprofit. She enjoys pop culture and is the TV/movies feature writer at Collider.

Maria Musikka

Production Director

Maria joined The Walrus in the fall of 2016. Her previous work experience includes Toronto Life, Fashion, Inside Entertainment and IAD.

Andrea Boyd

Director of Partnerships & Sponsorships

Andrea has worked in cultural sector fundraising, sponsorship, government relations, communications, and project management in the UK, Ireland, and Canada across a variety of cultural industries, including television and radio, music, and museums.

Cailin Cooper

Head of Events

Cailin joined The Walrus in 2015. Previously, she worked on marketing, event coordination, and author programming at The Word On The Street Toronto, Canada’s largest book and magazine festival.

Emma Mackenzie Hillier

Events Manager

Emma has worked in the performing arts for the past eight years as a producer and dramaturg with esteemed companies such as the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Nightswimming Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, and more.

Sheima Benembarek (on leave)

Events Manager

Sheima is a Moroccan Canadian freelance writer and publishing professional. She is a graduate of the Centennial College book, magazine, and electronic publishing program and has held various positions within the magazine sector.

Layla Ahmad

Events Manager

Layla loves engaging audiences through different platforms in the arts-and-culture sector, including publishing, digital media, film festivals, and marketing. She has worked with the CBC, The Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival, Second Story Press, and The Drake Hotel.

Alice Stratford-Kurus

Events Manager

Alice enjoys bringing together diverse ideas and audiences. Her work in the cultural sector encompasses event management, fundraising, and community engagement at a range of organizations including the Gardiner Museum, Luminato, Seneca College, and Artscape.

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Angela Misri

Digital Director

An award-winning digital journalist who worked at the CBC for most of her career, Angela is also the author of the Portia Adams Adventure series, and Pickles vs. the Zombies (2019). She is also an instructor at Ryerson University.
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Sheena Rossiter

Senior Digital Producer

Sheena is an award-winning journalist, podcaster, and filmmaker. From 2013 to 2017, she was the Rio de Janeiro correspondent for Monocle magazine and a senior video journalist at DAZN. Before that, she was based in São Paulo, London, and Barcelona. Her audio and video work has been broadcast by the CBC, the BBC, and the New York Times, among others. She has produced various documentaries and podcasts, including 3 Siblings (2018).
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Dmitry Beniaminov

Digital Consultant

Dmitry is a web guru and technology consultant specializing in digital transformation, technology education and all things web.
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Karl Percy

Chief Financial Officer

Karl is a professional accountant (CPA-CGA) with over twenty-five years of experience in the media and entertainment sectors.

Tina Love Cho

Head of Logistics and Production

Tina is a native Torontonian and an experienced tour manager who has travelled Canada with the Vinyl Cafe, Paul Brandt, and many more.

Jacqueline Faucher

Office Manager

Jacqueline is captivated by all things writing—from proofreading to screenwriting. 

Laura Lavie

Development Director

Laura has been fundraising for a diverse range of nonprofits in the Middle East and Canada since 2005 and loves connecting individuals and organizations to causes they care about. Laura is formally trained in fine arts and completed her CFRE in 2017. She has led several fundraising efforts and campaigns at organizations including the Peres Center for Peace, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto, Child Development Institute, Luminato, and the Aga Khan Museum.

Vilayath Ali

Donor Relations Officer

Vilayath enjoys helping writers, musicians, and other artists create. He has worked as a grant writer and arts organizer and cofounded an artist collective that provides arts education to learners from around the world.

Erin Jones

Development Officer, Annual Giving

Erin has worked as a professional fundraiser for over a decade. She has helped raise revenue and build relationships in support of education at organizations such as Breakfast for Learning, Havergal College, and York University. Erin has an unhealthy obsession with historical homes and a goal to stay in every historical hotel in Canada.

Mihira Lakshman

Director of The Walrus Lab

Mihira has more than a decade of experience at large and small companies in web, mobile, social media, television, radio, and print platforms.

Amirah El-Safty (on leave)

Project Manager

Amirah has worked in almost every role imaginable at The Walrus. Her latest challenge has been growing The Walrus Lab to help financially support independent, fact-based journalism. She loves to garden and has a tiny dog named Paris.

Alana Hamilton

Project Manager

Before joining The Walrus, Alana worked on the agency side of the media sector for over a decade, with global brands such as Apple, Coca-Cola, and more.

Paul Jaramillo

Advertising & Sales Manager

Paul has worked in the media sector for sixteen years, both on the agency side as the print buyer at the Procter & Gamble print agency of record, and on the sales side as a national account manager for Canadian Living, Elle Canada, and Style at Home.