A group of people wearing dark coats stand in front of a yellow brick building. Emily Macrae stands in front, facing the group and speaking. She's a white woman with short brown hair wearing a blue scarf over her windbreaker.

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Emily Macrae is a writer, speaker and organizer working to build accessible digital and urban environments on land governed by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum and Treaty 13.

She got her start in digital journalism as a columnist for Torontoist analyzing how innovations from around the world could inform city building closer to home. Her work has since appeared in Canadian Architect, Spacing, and NOW magazines, as well as publications in the United Kingdom, the United States and Ukraine.

Although her work is rooted in the ravines and rinks of Toronto, Emily brings a multilingual perspective to public spaces and shared services, drawing on her experiences as a disabled person waiting for buses in rural Québec, navigating seating on streetcars in Poznań and riding bikes in Bogotá.

She holds a Masters of Urban Planning from the University of Toronto and is a past co-organizer with Civic Tech Toronto. When not documenting defensive architecture, she cheers for the Dillon Panthers.