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.

Libby Dane hails from the mainland but has lived in Town since 2014. She is an arts worker and academic but is first and foremost a community member.

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 arts, Sarah is the programming coordinator for the St. John’s based music festival Lawnya Vawnya’s, a live and session musician for several projects. Writing and performing musical styles ranging from folk to experimental/electronic, Sarah has created the music for three Atlantic Canadian short films and performed on recent releases by Kelly McMichael, Knitting, and Property. Sarah is a member of the Montreal bands Knitting and Alpen Glow since 2022.

Michelle LaCour is an ECMA-nominated and MusicNL award-winning audio engineer in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador. After earning a Bachelor of Music in piano and historical musicology from Memorial University of Newfoundland, she went on to complete a Masters of Music in sound recording at McGill University, where she worked as an audio engineer and as a camera operator and director for the Schulich School of Music webcast series. Michelle has worked as a recording, mixing, and mastering engineer for classical and jazz ensembles, folk and pop acts, rock bands, and electronic artists. She has worked as a videographer, producer, and livestream engineer; as a live sound engineer at venues across Eastern Canada; and has held Technical Director roles for various festivals and conferences including the Sound Symposium, Lawnya Vawnya, the Tuckamore Festival, and the 21st Century Guitar. She has worked on a number of films and theatrical productions as a sound designer and composer, and her work as a location sound recordist has taken her all over our beautiful province. Michelle is also an educator, mentoring emerging audio engineers and giving workshops on topics such as location sound recording; music recording, mixing, and mastering; and videography.

Nora de Mariaffi is an artist and arts worker who spends all her free-time sewing. She holds a degree in Community Arts Education from Concordia University and a certificate in Graphic Design from OCAD. Currently, she works as Marketing Coordinator & Graphic Designer for Lawnya Vawnya. She is co-admin at I Don’t Do Comics, a comic publication open to everyone. De Mariaffi was born in Ontario, studied in Quebec, and has now returned to the province she calls home, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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.