About The Volunteers
Posted by Jordan PoppenkJordan Poppenk, Producer and Host
Jordan researches the brain basis of human memory as a PhD student in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Toronto. Having arrived in Toronto to find no local environmental programming, he negotiated with CIUT to establish TGM, which he currently programs and hosts each week. Prior to TGM, he hosted the environmental talk show GreenWorld on CHRW in London, Ontario, where he worked with EnviroWestern. He also interned at the Ministry of the Environment. He loves the lindy hop.
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Kevin Farmer is a Software Engineering student at the University of Toronto. In the 2006 federal election he was the Green Party candidate in the high profile Toronto riding of St. Paul’s. Kevin has been an advocate for environmental issues for several years and frequently shows up in the Toronto Star’s letters page. As well as contributing to TGM, Kevin also provides technical production for Acoustic Workshop, which airs every Monday at 7:00 on CIUT 89.5FM.
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Ryan Wiseman, Webhost
Sustainability nut, educator, tech geek, audio geek… Ryan has recently “retired” from a career teaching senior geography/environmental studies at a Toronto private high school to move his family to Owen Sound, ON where they are trying to live a carbon neutral lifesyle. In addition to his web work bringing environmental ideas and thinking to an audience at www.besustainable.com, Ryan runs a creative services company that specializes in web and new media strategy.
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Rosemary has worked and volunteered with a variety of nonprofits, including Toronto’s Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP). She runs a variety of web projects, such as Birds for Bulbs, a site that encourages people to make the switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs. She is also the author of Wild Toronto, a web comic on Torontoist.
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eter Stock, Green life correspondant
Peter comes to journalism somewhat late, but with a wealth of life experience to draw on. School and work has taken him to Philadelphia, New York City and Europe. He spent the 90s mostly in France running his own travel company. Now back in his home town, Toronto, he’s also pursuing freelance non-fiction writing. A dedicated spoken word radio listener, Peter looks forward to contributing to that side of CIUT’s programming. Beyond his role at TGM, Peter is a regular contributor to Take 5, which airs every weekday from 8:30 to 10 am.
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Alex Nursall is an English/Visual Arts student at the University of Toronto. Though not an on-air personality on TGM, she provides technical production for the show each week. Before moving to Toronto, she worked at CKLU in Sudbury as a host on the show Unintentional Mohawk, and as an animal care technician at a local science center. When she’s not on the boards for TGM, Alex works as a technician/contributor for the CIUT shows Take 5, Innovations, and her own show The Beaver Lodge.
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Danny Leskiw, Politics and health correspondent
Will the real Danny Leskiw stand up. In addition to his role at TGM, Danny Leskiw is a political and features reporter and man on the street reporter for Take 5, which airs before TGM from 8:30 to 10 am each weekday morning. In a previous CIUT reincarnation, he was an Environment and Health news reporter, and is now very pleased to join the cast of TGM.
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Simon Watson is a doctoral student in theology at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the theodicy question in light of evolution; that is, how does one understand a loving and all-powerful God in the face of a natural system that seems cruel, wasteful, and arbitrary? He has written and/or worked for Toronto Life, the Queen’s Quarterly, CMAJ, and Random House of Canada. He completed an M.A. in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor.
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