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Title: Interview with Karen Aboud
Description: Karen Aboud talks about her experience as an active UTSC student, both academically and in her extracurricular activities. She discusses topics ranging from her professors and classes to her involvement in student council and rallies. As a student from the first graduating class of Scarborough College in the 1960s, Aboud relays the impression she got of the layout of Scarborough in the early years of the College.
Subject: Activism, Buildings, Extra-curricular activities, Facilities, Scarborough College, Student experience

Title: Interview with Paul Harpley
Description: Paul Harpley, environmental scientist and wildlife painter, describes growing up in Scarborough in the 1960s and his time at Scarborough College first in the 1970s. He shares memories of public transport, his grandparents' cabin at the mouth of Rouge River and Scarborough's urban development. Harpley reflects upon UTSC's impact on his personal life, his environmental activism and his career in natural heritage.
Subject: Activism, Architecture, Campus growth, Community, Employment, Environmentalism, Scarborough College, Student experience, Transportation

Title: Interview with Margaret McPhail
Description: Margaret McPhail talks about her experience as an activist, through her role as a secondary school teacher and staff member at the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF/FEESO). She also describes her role on the International Women's Day Committee and with Organized Working Women.
Subject: Activism, Education, Feminism

Title: Interview with Lauri Sue Robertson
Subject: Accessibility, Activism, Community, Disabilities, Diversity, Leadership

Title: Interview with Saarah
Description: Sarah discuss her personal experiences as a Muslim woman, her activism, her study of Canadian indigenous history, and her practicum experience in Toronto women's and refugee shelters.
Subject: Activism, Anti-colonialism, Feminism, Intersectionality, Mental health, Refugees

Title: Interview with Leon Tsai
Subject: Activism, Gender, Sexuality, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus

Title: Interview with confidential participant 002
Description: A McMaster student of psychology and social work discusses the importance of mental health awareness and the difference between mental health and mental illness. The participant discusses different tools for building mental health awareness, including online resources, workshops, lived experience and conversations with peers. They also speak about cultural stigma and taboo surrounding mental illness and how mental health education continues to be taught from a colonial perspective.
Subject: Activism, Anti-colonialism, Mental health, Social work

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