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Starr Cunningham is the President & CEO of the Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia.
She is a National Recipient of a ‘Difference Makers - 150 Canadians Leading for Mental Health Award’. Starr currently serves on the Atlantic Bell Let’s Talk Community Fund Advisory Committee. She is Communications Chair for the International Women’s Forum – Atlantic and serves on the National IWF Committee. Starr is a Director of the Board for St. John Ambulance Nova Scotia & Prince Edward Island, invested into the Order of St. John, and a member of the National Honours & Awards Committee of the Priory of Canada. Starr was recently honoured with a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for her work in mental health. A best-selling children’s author and multiple journalism award winner, Starr is a strong voice and recognized personality across the Atlantic region.
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Award-winning actor Lenore Zann burst onto the entertainment scene with her powerful portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in the rock opera Hey Marilyn! She has since performed across North America and in Europe with hundreds of credits in Film, TV, Theatre, Radio, and Animation including her own one-woman play, The Marilyn Tapes, in New York.
Recent feature film roles include “Bevette“ in filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald’s Stage Mother with (fellow Australian) Academy Award Nominee Jacki Weaver, and “Gladys Madone” in Barrie Dunn’s The Madones. A tireless champion of Arts and Culture, Women, Diversity, and Social and Environmental Justice, Lenore served for twelve years (2009-2021) as a popular elected official in both provincial and federal levels of Government in Canada. Her Private Member’s Bills, “Act to Address Environmental Racism introduced in Province House, Halifax, in 2014, and federal “National Strategy to Address Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Act” have been widely hailed as the first Bills of their kind in North America. Beloved by fans around the world for her voice as the iconic “Rogue” in the 90’s X-Men: The Animated Series, Zann is currently reprising her role in the new Marvel series X-Men ‘97 streaming on Disney+. And her memoir, Lenore Zann: A Rogue’s Tale, will be published in fall 2024 by Pottersfield Press with distribution by Nimbus Publishing and available on Amazon. Lenore is the grateful recipient of several awards: Earl Grey Public Speaking Contest (Gold), ACTRA Award for Best Actress in a Radio Drama, Duke of Edinburgh Gold Lifetime Award for Service to Community & Country, and Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to Arts and Culture. ------------------------------------------------------ *Trigger Warning: This conversation includes references to suicidal thoughts. To anyone who may need help to cope with their mental health and/or thoughts of suicide, please, please, please reach out for help. Canada Suicide Prevention: • 1-833-456-4566 (phone) • 45645 (text) • www.crisisservicescanada.ca (chat) Alcoholics Anonymous: https://www.aa.org ----------------------------------- Sharon Ishimwe is a storyteller and the founder of Engero Productions. After years of storytelling through writing, public speaking, and working on documentary sets such as Nee Nee Productions’ multi award winning film Sauti, Sharon produced and directed her debut movie, Ssekukkulu: A Ugandan Christmas in 2023. Sharon is also the Executive Director of MacPhee Centre for Creative Learning, and the co-founder of an early-stage startup, Lunch Buddies. A proponent of radical trust, she is passionate about connecting people and building meaningful relationships. She enjoys questions more than answers and her superpower is spotting silver linings. Sharon holds a master’s degree in public relations from Mount Saint Vincent University where she graduated Valedictorian and received the Senate Medal of Distinction. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and communications from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.
Crawford is a food enthusiast since birth. They won MasterChef Canada in 2019, and began their pro-wrestling career in Nova Scotia shortly thereafter.
Caring deeply, trying hard, and making things are their favourite pastimes. These days, they’ve either got their head down writing or high in the clouds scheming wrestling matches and menus. ------------------------------------------------------ Theme song produced, recorded, mixed, by John Mullane for Let Me Overthink About It. Written by John Mullane. Edited by Jann McFarlane Digital Media Proudly supported by Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia |
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