GSA 2023 – 2024 Team

Antara Dey - President, York University/VP Communications

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Antara Dey is a PhD candidate in the Joint Program in Communication and Culture at York University. She completed her Master of Design and Master of Public Relations and Advertising from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Previously, she completed her Bachelor of Design from the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Delhi. Her doctoral research is focused on popular culture, food studies, consumer culture and digital media.

Alexandra Novitchkova - President, Toronto Metropolitan University

Océane Nyela, Vice President, York University/ PhD Rep York/ YUGSA Rep

Océane Nyela is a PhD student in the Joint Program in Communication & Culture at York University. She graduated from the University of Ottawa with an Honours Bachelor of Social Sciences (BSocSc) in Criminology and Sociology. Her master’s project tiled Braided archives: cornrows as a site of diasporic transindividuation takes up sensory ethnography as a way to investigate the role of hair braiding and communication for continental African women living in Canada. She has previously served on the GSA as Equity Officer, ComCult Executive MA Representative, and ISCS Co-Chair.

Kathy Porter - Vice President, Toronto Metropolitan University

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Toronto Metropolitan University - Vacant

Parastoo Mazaheri - Finance Officer

Esther Sampson - Equity Officer

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Esther Sampson is a PhD student in the Joint Program in Communication and Culture between York and Toronto Metropolitan Universities. She completed her Master of Arts in the same program along with a Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies from York. Previously, she completed her Honours Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain Management, and Diploma in Tourism and Travel from Seneca College. Her doctoral research is focused on Autism and neurodiversity in Cognitive Semiotics.

Kathy Porter - PhD Rep, Toronto Metropolitan University

PhD Rep, York University - Vacant

Christine Cooling - MA Rep, York University

MA Rep, Toronto Metropolitan University - Vacant

Anneka Bosse - CUPE 3903 Steward

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Anneka Bosse is a PhD student on the York side of Communication and Culture. She completed her MA in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory at Wilfrid Laurier University and honours BA in Popular Culture with a minor in Dramatic Arts at Brock. She is interested in community-based participatory research with migrant agricultural workers and organizations that support them in the Niagara region.

Oceane Nyela - YUGSA Rep, York University

Sara Bimo - YUGSA Rep, York University