Chrissy Dicks is an arts worker of Mi’kmaq and settler heritage from Corner Brook, NL. She has been instrumental in Lawnya Vawnya’s growth since 2013 and is now the organization’s Executive Director. Chrissy also works as First Light’s community events consultant, helping to coordinate the annual Spirit Song Festival. With over 10 years of experience working in the industry, Chrissy’s main area of interest is community building through art and culture. Chrissy has a B.A from Memorial University and completed post graduate studies at NSCAD University. She now lives in St. John’s, NL.

Sarah Harris is a musician, sound engineer, and arts worker from St. John’s, NL. With a primary focus on community organizing, performance, composition, and recording, Sarah is the Programming Director for Lawnya Vawnya’s, a recording engineer, and a live and session musician. Writing and performing musical styles ranging from folk to experimental, Sarah has worked as a film composer for a handful of Canadian short films and performed or engineered on recent releases by Knitting, Backxwash, Amery, and Kelly McMichael. Sarah holds a BA from Memorial University in English and Folklore, and a BFA in Music in Electroacoustic Creative Practices from Concordia University. Sarah has been with LV since 2019. 

Nora de Mariaffi is a artist, seamstress, and arts worker based in St. John's, NL. She holds a degree in Community Arts Education from Concordia University and a certificate in Graphic Design from OCAD. She has worked for Lawnya Vawnya since 2021 and currently works as Marketing Director & Graphic/Web Designer. She is co-admin at I Don’t Do Comics, a comic publication open to everyone. She also owns and operates a small slow-made apparel brand out of her studio in Downtown St. John's. De Mariaffi was born in Ontario, studied in Quebec, and has now returned to the province she calls home, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Michelle LaCour is a musician, audio engineer, educator, arts worker, and sound designer based in St. John's, NL. She has been with Lawnya Vawnya as the festival's Technical Director since 2019, and works with a number of other festivals including Sound Symposium, the Tuckamore Music Festival, and the 21st Century Guitar. As an artist, she performs most regularly on synthesizers with improvising duo Loopstitch, and on piano accordion with Len O'Neill. Recent releases as a recording and mixing engineer include Valmy - The In Between, Natasha Blackwood - Good Machines, The Dandelion Few - Ovv Vrese & Suond, and the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra Sinfonia - Alikeness. Michelle has led workshops on a variety of topics including music recording, mixing, and mastering; location sound recording; and audio post-production; and taught at the College of the North Atlantic Paul Leslie Pope School of Film and Television. In the theatre world, she has worked as a sound designer for stage works including Oderin, What Hangs in the Balance, Urn, and Altar. She holds a B.Mus in piano and historical musicology from Memorial University, and an M.Mus in sound recording from McGill University. She was named Recording Engineer of the Year in 2021 and 2023 by MusicNL, and was nominated for the Live Sound Engineer of the Year award by the East Coast Music Association in 2020 and 2021.

Salome Barker, of Mi'kmaw and Irish ancestry from Grand Falls-Windsor, NL, is based in St. John's. She works in the arts and community sectors, hosting "Good Medicine" on CBC Radio and contributing to Indigenous music from the East Coast. Salome previously specialized in events at First Light Friendship Centre and holds a Bachelor of Arts from St. Francis Xavier University. Salome has been attending Lawnya Vawnya since 2013 and sat on the programming committee from 2021-2022.