PROJECT CONTRIBUTORS
Ariel Brewster recently relocated to Toronto from New York, where she checked facts at New York magazine and fixed sentences at The Village Voice. Now she keeps busy as an immigrant (mostly) and as an intern at The Walrus, a Canadian general interest monthly. She is a native New Englander, beginning biker, and a big fan of colorful produce. She enjoys eavesdropping, New York Times wedding announcements, musty subway smells, and old souls. Her favorite pens are Pilot Fineliners and Pentel RSVPs (donations appreciated).






Lydia Chan attributes her fixation on stationery to working in her parents' Hallmark store while growing up in New Jersey. She currently works in corporate communications and recently moved from New York to San Francisco. She is looking forward to exploring a new city and discovering what paper goods California has to offer.






Libby Ellis is a vicious card player and especially like games favored by old ladies (Canasta) and chubby Midwesterners (Euchre). She loves Elvis, yoga, books and red onions. She doesn't enjoy condiments of any sort. She works as marketing communications manager at the Jewish United Fund. Career highlights include: interviewing Joan Jett and going on a business trip to Israel. Libby lives in Chicago with her boyfriend and a 300lb sculpture of a drunk bunny. By next spring she hopes to have two dogs.






Audrey Evans works in a library in Manhattan. She is originally from El Dorado, Arkansas, but now finds herself quite content living in Park Slope, Brooklyn. She can develop a significant interest in just about any topic given the time and right conditions, but some of her longstanding fascinations and hobbies include: recording oral histories, biographies, monsters in religion and culture, rituals of any kind, libraries, and photography. She also enjoys striking up random conversations on the subway.






Sofia Leung is a native New Yorker who has, thus far, resided in three of the five and currently lives near Stuy Town. When not amusing herself with the titles of children's books, she enjoys soccer, tennis (especially the US Open), fooding, bookstores, banging on Korean drums, and exploring all of New York. Any spare moment she has is spent desperately trying to ingest immense quantities of, hopefully, quality media.






Amanda Morales is a paper- and- pen enthusiast living in Brooklyn. After studying philosophy and art and art history an undergrad, she has been working in arts non-profits in new york city for the past few years. Her fondest memories of childhood include TrapperKeepers, Hello Kitty and Lisa Frank. If you tell her your birthday, she'll remember it forever and probably make a card for you and send it in via snailmail. You can see her work online at heartloop.etsy.com.






Youngna Park is a photographer who lives in the East Village of New York City. She recently spent three months volunteering and documenting life at an orphanage in the Bolivian Andes and then drove across the United States in search of good food. In addition to running projects about letters, she likes taking photos, color gradients, farmers' markets, morning light, books, brunch, and bikes.






William (Bill) Smith: The Modern Letter Project’s Man in Toronto is a PR practitioner, amateur fine art photographer and fountain pen collector. A graduate from University of Toronto class of 1991 with a degree in Political Science and History, Bill is a refugee from retailing, B2B marketing and sales. His other interests include listening to music (Jazz, Soul, Funk, Ska and Motown), literature, current affairs, film, hiking, alpine skiing, cycling and hanging out with friends.






Corie Trancho-Robie is the assistant director of an oral history research office in New York City. She is obsessed with the social history of our built environment and believes wholeheartedly that every building has a story. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, photography, graduate paper writing and cat wrangling with her husband in Red Hook, Brooklyn.