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Justine Richardson

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Justine Richardson is Director of The Arboretum, a 400-acre, internationally accredited, living laboratory at the University of Guelph. She brings a life-long passion for science and nature and a strategic storytelling approach to leadership in cultural spaces. 
She joined the Embassy Cultural House to present the exhibition Pandemic Gardens.

For the past twenty-two years, she has worked in interdisciplinary university environments with subject matter experts to further research, teaching, and community-engaged outreach for positive change. 

Justine has a background in documentary filmmaking and multimedia production. She trained at Appalshop, the community-based media arts centre in the Appalachian mountains of Whitesburg, Kentucky, where she was born. There, she directed Girls’ Hoops, an award-winning history of girls’ high-school basketball, and was a videographer for Shelter, Morristown in the Air and Sun, His Eye Is on the Sparrow, and The Ralph Stanley Story. For many years, she worked developing and managing multi-partner humanities research projects at Matrix: The Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Michigan State University, where her focus included the Quilt Index, the American Black Journal Online archive, and the MSU Museum and Quilt Alliance’s Quilt Treasures video documentaries. She managed the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation at the University of Guelph.

​Justine studied history of art at Yale University (BA), cultural studies at Michigan State University (MA), community organizing at the Highlander Center for Research and Education (Newmarket, Tennessee, USA), undoing racism at the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA), and media production at both the Communications Experience (Guatemala City, Guatemala) and at Appalshop. 

She lives in Guelph, Ontario, with her family.


EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA 
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,  JoAnna Weil 

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, ​Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson. 

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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Thank you to our partners

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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

​London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

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