Dr. Miranda Campbell is an Associate Professor, Creative Industries at The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the author of Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care (2022) and How to Care More: Seven Skills for Personal and Social Change (2022). Her book, Out of the Basement: Youth Cultural Production in Practice and in Policy (2013) was shortlisted for the Donner Prize for the best public policy book by a Canadian. Her involvement with creative communities includes coordination and Board of Director roles with Rock Camp for Girls Montreal and with WhipperSnapper Gallery, an artist-run centre focusing on emerging artists in Toronto.