Event Speaker: Shawn Micallef

Shawn Micallef is the author of Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness, The Trouble With Brunch: Work Class and the Pursuit of Leisure and Full Frontal TO: Exploring Toronto’s Vernacular Architecture. The updated and expanded edition of his first book, Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, was published in 2024. He’s a Toronto Star columnist, civics instructor at University of Toronto, and a Senior Fellow at Massey College where he was also a 2011-2012 Southam Journalism Fellow. Shawn is a co-founder of Spacing, a magazine about Canadian cities and urban issues.