Speaking (select)

 

Moderating

Congrès annuel de la Société pour l’étude de l’architecture au Canada

  • Animatrice de la séance « Communautés de béton : des quartiers d’appartements à la construction de condos »

Digital Government Book Club

  • With Darcie Harding co-facilitated remarks from guest speaker José Ribas Fernandes (Canada Energy Regulator)

Civic Tech Toronto: 5th Birthday Celebration

  • Panelists: Jennifer Hollett (Walrus), Nasma Ahmed (Digital Justice Lab), Dilini Kurukulaarachchi (Civic Tech Toronto)

Accessibility Talks: How to Plan a Barrier-Free Event

  • Panelists: Andrew Do (Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship), Christine Karcza (Accessibility Consultant)

Regent Park Film Festival: Margarita with a Straw

  • Panelist: Andrew Gurza (Disability Awareness Consultant)

Presenting

From Inequality to Justice — Law and Ethics of AI Technology: Can’t Compute Book Launch

  • Moderators: Nasma Ahmed, Dr. Suzie Dunn

  • Co-Presenters: GL Barrett, Lucia Flores Echaiz, Giovanni Guiga, Stephanie Jonsson,

Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada: Toronto’s public libraries as architecture of the every day

  • Moderators: Dr. Jess Mace, Dr. Marie-Josée Therrien

Brigade Congress: We the North! Civic Tech Organizing in Toronto

  • Host: Code for America

  • Co-Presenters: Patrick Connelly, Alex Jung

Toronto Arts Council: Seeding Utopias Resisting Dystopias

  • Moderator: Jim Munroe

  • Co-Presenters: Cory Doctorow, Madeline Ashby

Web Community Forum: Beyond Hackathons

  • Host: Ontario Public Service

  • Co-Presenters: Skaidra Puodziunas, David Cox

Sidewalk, Street and Beach Tours

University of Toronto: Department of Art History

  • Guest lecturer for first year art history seminar

Heritage Toronto: From Streets to Shelves

  • Led accessible tours with more than 90 participants

Jane’s Walk: Local Library History

  • Facilitated conversations about seven buildings that shaped Toronto’s public library system

Juno Beach Centre: Tour Guide

  • Bilingual tours of the D-Day Landing Beaches for French school groups and international tourists

Two people on stage face one another in conversation. Emily holds papers and looks at Andrew as they speak. Andrew wears and orange hoodie with a black baseball cap and sits in a wheelchair.

Regent Park Film Festival 2015: Talking about ableism on screen and behind the camera with Andrew Gurza.

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