Dr. Kate Cornell (she/her) is a writer, advocate, and leader in the non-profit sector. With a PhD in Communications and Culture, Dr. Cornell has published more than 60 articles and co-authored one book. She was the co-chair of the Canadian Arts Coalition from 2013-2019 and advocated on behalf of the national arts sector. In recognition of her advocacy work, she received the Hobday Award in Arts Management (2016) from the Canada Council for the Arts. She has taught in several university programs including education, theatre, and dance. Currently, Dr. Kate Cornell is the research and training director for Aftermetoo working on a digital project for survivors of workplace sexual harassment.

Anne began her arts management career in the 1980s at Keyano Theatre, Fort McMurray, Alberta. Moving to Toronto, she worked at the Toronto Theatre Alliance on the 3rd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, then at Jeunesses musicales du Canada as Ontario Executive Director. After a Master’s degree in Arts Policy and Management from the City University, London, UK (1987-88) Anne returned to Canada and worked at Harbourfront as Co-ordinator for the Festival of Authors; then as General Manager at Theatre Direct Canada and Mixed Company Theatre. She also taught in the Humber College post-graduate Arts Administration – Cultural Management program, starting in 2000.

In 2002 Anne moved to Owen Sound and worked on revenue development at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery, then at the Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre, a major facility on the Lake Huron shore. In 2003 Anne began to teach in the undergraduate arts management program at University of Toronto, Scarborough. In 2008-9, Anne co-ordinated the Humber program in which she had been teaching. During the five-year suspension of the Humber program, from 2011 to 2013, Anne taught post-graduates in the Culture and Heritage Site Management program at Centennial College as well as teaching job development skills to post-secondary learners in a technical theatre program at Sheridan College. Anne joined Young Associates, offering financial and business services to the cultural sector, in 2013 as a senior consultant, working primarily in revenue development and business planning. Anne resumed the coordinator’s role for the Humber post-graduate arts management program as of 2014, and maintains her consulting practice at Young Associates alongside this full-time faculty position, stewarding her robust and long-standing professional links into the sector alongside her academic role.

Heather Clara Young, CPB (Principal, Young Associates), has worked in the field of arts management for over thirty years and as a bookkeeper for most of that time. Her experience includes leadership roles with arts and heritage service organizations, theatre and dance producing companies, facilities, festivals and community organizations. Young Associates, founded in 1993, provides full-service bookkeeping as well as financial planning, strategic planning, HR and data management services to not-for-profits and charities, with a special focus on the arts and culture sector. Heather teaches accounting and financial management in Humber College’s Arts Management program, and has taught for Humber’s Fundraising and Volunteer Management program and University of Toronto’s Arts Management program. She was the 2012 recipient of the Sandra Tulloch Award for Innovation in Arts and Culture, and a 2004 recipient of Humber College’s Continuing Education Award of Excellence for Outstanding Academic Contribution. Finance for the Arts in Canada (2005, 2021) is a unique self-study guide, reference source and textbook for the accounting and finance functions in cultural organizations.