Speakers
- Nataleah Hunter-Young
- Ryerson University and York University, PhD Candidate
Nataleah Hunter-Young is a film programmer and PhD candidate in Communication and Culture at Ryerson and York Universities. She has supported festival programming for the Toronto International Film Festival, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and the Durban International Film Festival in South Africa. With an educational background in social work, together with more than 10 years’ experience as a local and international youth worker, Nataleah has always merged her passions for community development with her love of film and media arts. In 2019, Nataleah became a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar which will support her ongoing doctoral research on late representations of mediated police brutality in contemporary art. She holds a Master’s of Social Work from Ryerson University, and has recently written for Xtra, Canadian Art Magazine, the Gardiner Museum, and issue 58 of PUBLIC: Arts | Culture | Ideas for which she also served as co-editor. She was born and raised in community.