Can you hear the eco? Prepare to be inspired.
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About Us
It all started with the will to overturn youth apathy and a few passionate high school students. Find out more about the people behind the pages. We are currently looking for more page layout designers.
ChaCha Yang
Editor-in-Chief
Cha Cha is currently a student in her final year in high school. Loving to read cereal boxes, watch Avatar the Last Airbender, and drink bitter Chinese tea, Cha Cha can most often be found in the French room, her mentor's laboratory, or behind a good book.
Cha Cha would like to thank everyone who continues to help make Ecoprints a success, including but not limited to Duststop Air Filters Inc., the Toronto Public Library, and her amazingly dedicated team. Her hope is to see Ecoprints become a recognizable name to students across the province.
Daphne Yang
Layout and Graphics Designer
Daphne is a 16-year-old gifted and CyberARTS student at Don Mills CI. Daphne is an avid supporter of youth solidarity and sees Ecoprints as a way for teens to share their thoughts in an environment where their voices will be heard.
Daphne likes; in no particular order; visual art, design, math, music, sociology, comics, dramatic irony, languages, humourous self-deprecation (and non-self-deprecative humour), being metaphysical, and transformative fiction. Daphne also enjoys talking about herself.
Gareth Gransaull
Literature Editor
Gareth is a Grade 10 student of TOPS on Bloor, also a pianist and general bibliophile. He is deeply distressed by a prevalently inchoate discourse on the environment in the mainstream media, particularly a body of youth profoundly inconversant in ecological issues, and so is devoted, if quixotically, to promulgating environmental awareness. He is also, as a new addition to the team, exuberant to work to work with fellow executives to continue producing magazines and gradually extend its influence.
Chen Chen
Social Media and Outreach Correspondent
Chen is a compassionate and driven Grade 10 pre-IB student at Bayview Secondary School. Chen fervently supports Ecoprints in what it has done and will do for giving teens
a voice in expressing their opinions on important topics/issues. She encourages all those capable of writing and/or speaking to try to contribute.
You will usually hear Chen before you see her, humming the most recent song she has ‘stuck in her head.’ She is most often found in the music room, at the Ontario Science Centre, editing and posting the best pictures she can find, or catching reruns of Gilmore Girls and CSI.
Bronte Kennedy
Sponsorship Coordinator
Bronte is an effervescent and people-oriented student at The Linden School. Her interests range from the well-being of children to the environment. She currently spends most of her time volunteering with her youth group at her church, and looking for more sponsors to contact for Ecoprints. Bronte enjoys travelling, spending time with family and reading historical novels. She loves to meet new people and encourages everyone to send Ecoprints an email should they have any questions, concerns, or submissions.
Past Executives
Moriam Ahmed
Literature Editor
2012-2014
“A picture can tell a thousand words, but a few words can change its story.” ― Sebastyne Young
This Grade 11 TOPS on Bloor high school student has a built-in spelling and grammar check for all of your last-minute editing needs. When not procrastinating efficiently via net-surfing or idle video watching, she is madly attempting to complete work that is due the next day or geeking out over a newly-discovered Photoshop feature, while any sparse leftover time is devoted to volunteering in the field of medicine. Moriam envisions Ecoprints as a household name for youth all across Ontario. This future will come to transpire through the support of Ecoprint's sponsers, contributors, executives and readers, as well as with her secret lexiconic superpowers
Batteries not included.
Anjali Patel
Page Layout Editor
2012-2014
"The future depends on what you do today." – Mahatma Gandhi
Anjali is a grade 11 TOPS on Bloor high school student that has always seen Ecoprints magazine as a way for youth to empower themselves and let their thoughts be heard about big environmental issues. This young page layout editor can be found in a variety of places such as the skating rink, volunteering at the local hospital, behind a book in the library or even munching popcorn while watching the latest season of The Amazing Race Canada or Masterchef on her television. She hopes that youth will continue to voice their opinions using their intelligence and creativity and Ecoprints *wink, wink, nudge, nudge, submit!* as a medium.