HUMBER STORYLAB - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Project Manager
- Senior Project Manager, Humber College
Barath Roy Michel is a Sr. Project Manager who is passionate about data analytics projects, numbers and stories. He knows his data and can visualize data using Excel, Tableau and Power BI . His passion has driven him to work on various data analytics projects, train students on data storytelling and also initiate Data Storytelling competitions at Humber College.
Job Titles:
- Strategic Innovation Manager for the Office of Research
- Strategic Innovation Manager, Humber College
Camila Perez Pena is a Strategic Innovation Manager for the Office of Research and Innovation. Passionate about human relations and sociocultural dynamics, she focuses her work on ethnographic research, Human-Centered Design, and Design Thinking to transform ideas into sustainable high-impact innovative projects and strategic initiatives.
Clara Pasieka is a journalist currently living and working in New Brunswick for the largest newspapers in the province, the Times & Transcript/Telegraph-Journal. She holds a masters in public policy, public administration and law from York/Osgoode, a Bachelor of Arts in theatre and political science from the University of Toronto and is an alum of the Fellowship in Global Journalism at the University of Toronto. She has worked at the Ontario Legislature as a freelance reporter and previously was in OLIP in 2018-2019, a non-partisan position which allowed her to visit legislatures across the country and the UK and work intimately with MPPs on both sides of the aisle. She has presented her academic research on Canadian democracy and legislature proceedings across Canada. Prior to becoming a journalist, she told Canadian stories on stage and screen for 13 years as an actor, writer and producer. Her films and television shows have played all over the world and several have been nominated for the Canadian Screen Awards. She had held over 70 jobs in various industries.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Data Journalist
- Director, StoryLab, Humber College
David Weisz is a data journalist and educator passionate about storytelling, spreadsheets and pandas (both furry and Python varieties). Creator of Data Driven, Canada's premier data journalism symposium. He is currently exploring new ways to collaborate on data-driven storytelling as a co-founder and director of Humber College's StoryLab.
Job Titles:
- Senior Investigator and Trainer at Bellingcat
Giancarlo is a senior investigator and trainer at Bellingcat. He is also a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto.
Job Titles:
- Assistant With Humber College 's StoryLab
- Project Assistant, Humber College
Janice Saji is project assistant with Humber College's StoryLab as well as Humber Press. She completed her postgraduate studies in Journalism from Humber College, Toronto. She previously worked as an intern-journalist at The Hindu in India, writing stories covering crime, art, and science. When she's not busy chasing stories, you can find her stalking the neighbourhood cats and binge-watching stand-ups.
Job Titles:
- Project Coordinator With Humber College 's StoryLab
- Project Coordinator, Humber College StoryLab
Mar Greig is a Project Coordinator with Humber College's StoryLab and Humber Press. They joined Humber's Office of Research & Innovation in 2023.
Mar previously worked with the Faculty of Media & Creative Arts providing technical support to Diploma and Post Graduate journalism students and faculty at Humber's North campus. They live in East York.