About Us

Team

VALÉRIE LESSARD

FOUNDER, CEO

Education
Contemporary dance, information science, arts management, museology
 
Beyond Work
Mom and soccer player
 
Favorite Archive
My immigrant mother’s plane ticket of her arrival in Canada (1974)
 

MARIA GRACIELA BASTARDO

ARCHIVIST

Education
Literature, Hispanic studies, translation, information and archives management, digital information management
 
Beyond Work
Children's book author
 
Favorite Archive
A photograph of my father in exile in Mexico during the dictatorship in Venezuela (circa 1950)

GABRIELLE PFALZGRAF

ARCHIVIST

Education
Visual and media arts, information and archives management
 
Beyond Work
Nature and outdoor enthusiast
 
Favorite Archive
The videotape of my first trip to Alsace and meeting my great-grandmother (1995)