Hayley Wickenheiser is regarded as one of the best female hockey players in the world. She has represented Canada at numerous World Championships and made six Olympic appearances (both summer and winter), bringing home four Olympic gold medals. She still holds the record for the most assists, points, and goals for the Canadian Women’s National team. Off the ice, she has picked up numerous additional accomplishments, such as Olympic and Hockey Hall of Fame inductee, accomplished public speaker, and Founder of the world-renowned Canadian Tire WickFest. She is currently the Senior Director of Player Development for the Toronto Maple Leafs and a medical doctor.

André Picard is a Health Reporter and Columnist for The Globe and Mail, where he has been a staff writer since 1987. He is also the author of five bestselling books.

André is an eight-time nominee for the National Newspaper Awards, Canada’s top journalism prize, and past winner of the prestigious Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service Journalism.

He was named Canada’s first “Public Health Hero” by the Canadian Public Health Association, as a “Champion of Mental Health” by the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health, and received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his dedication to improving health care.

André is a graduate of the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, and has received honorary doctorates from six universities, including UBC and the University of Toronto.

A graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Victoria, Esi Edugyan was raised in Calgary, Alberta. She is also the author of Half-Blood Blues, Dreaming of Elsewhere, and Washington Black, which was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust, and Man Booker Prizes, and won the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She has held fellowships in the U.S., Scotland, Iceland, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Spain, and Belgium. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Sherrill Sutherland is a producer for The Decibel, a new daily news podcast from The Globe and Mail. Prior to her role at The Decibel, she was a Content Editor for The Globe's Opinion section.

An academic by background, a former editor by profession, and a lifelong history nerd, Jennifer Robson is now lucky enough to now call herself a full-time writer. She is the author of six novels set during and after the two world wars: Somewhere in France, After the War is Over, Moonlight Over Paris, Goodnight from London, The Gown, and Our Darkest Night: A Novel of Italy and the Second World War. She was also a contributor to the acclaimed anthology Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War.

Jennifer studied French literature and Modern History as an undergraduate at King’s University College at Western University, and then attended Saint Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, where she obtained her doctorate in British economic and social history. While at Oxford she was a Commonwealth Scholar and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow.

Elizabeth Renzetti is a columnist and feature writer for The Globe and Mail. From 2003 to 2012, she was a member of the Globe's London-based European bureau. Her Saturday column is published weekly on page 2 of the Opinion section, and her features appear regularly throughout The Globe.

Judith Pereira joined The Globe and Mail in 2001, as an intern at Report on Business magazine, while doing her Master’s degree in Publishing at Simon Fraser University. After a stint as a features editor for theglobeandmail.com, she spent nearly two decades as an editor at ROB magazine, where she won several National Newspaper Awards for packages and infographics. She became The Globe’s Books editor in 2019. Before joining The Globe, she worked for the now-defunct Lichtman’s (where she learned the importance of recommendations to book sales) and read the slush pile at Penguin Canada (where she discovered nobody). She also sits on the board of the Canadian Museum of Nature.