Poet Titilope on balancing motherhood and creating art
Titilope Sonuga is a multi-hyphenate artist (poet, writer, actress) originally from Nigeria who now calls Edmonton home. She moved to Edmonton with her family at age 14. Later, she became an engineer but once she started working she decided to shift her focus to poetry. She moved to Lagos, Nigeria to pursue her art and ...
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Ilvy Goossens on belonging, becoming, and growth
Ilvy Goosens is a Belgian international PhD student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. She and I go way back. We met when I lived in Belgium in 2012 and we became fast friends. I still remember our conversation, over coffees in our favourite cafe in Leuven, about her exploring potential ...
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Piyush Patel on Immigrating as a Teenager and Navigating Dual Cultural Identities
Piyush Patel is a radio personality in Edmonton, Alberta. He moved to Canada from Mumbai, India when he was 15. Since then, Piyush has been navigating having two cultural identities, one as Indian and the other as Canadian. He has interesting insights into living life on a cultural spectrum and how art has helped him ...
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Podcaster Erica Ensign on Women in Fandom and Creating Inclusivity
In this episode, I speak with Erika Ensign a podcaster from Wisconsin who now lives in Edmonton. Erika is a prolific creator. She is involved in 8! different podcasts ranging in topics from the television show Dr. Who, science-fiction and fantasy, and hockey. Erika says that women have always been a part of the ...
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Lawyer Cindy Kieu on Active Learning, Curiosity, and Cultural Intelligence
Cindy Kieu is a lawyer in Edmonton. She is originally from Vietnam and her family moved to Toronto, Canada when she was 10. Cindy has studied, lived, and worked in various places around the world. Until recently, she lived in Nunavut where she was practicing law, notably during the establishment of Canada's newest ...
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Architect Jelle De Roeck on Belgium, Cycling, and Fatherhood
Migration Patterns is out of the studio this week and in Ottawa, Ontario! Jelle De Roeck is an Architect from Belgium who moved to Canada in 2015. He and his wife moved to Canada looking for a sense of community that they couldn't find in Belgium. Two years later, their son was born. In this episode, I ask Jelle about ...
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Chef Israel Alvarez on Mexico, Tacos, and Being Kidnapped
This week on Migration Patterns, I speak with Israel Alvarez, a chef who grew up in Mexico City and now lives in Edmonton. In this episode, he shares some of his experiences working in Enrique Olvera's restaurant Pujol, what happened when he was kidnapped in Mexico City, and his current pop-up project COMAL Taco ...
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