Aisha Fairclough
Co Founder , Director of Operations and Programming
Aisha is an award winning television producer, casting director, filmmaker, body image advocate and diversity consultant. She is the founder of Representation Matters, a company dedicated to producing, creating, consulting, and casting for a more diverse lens in film and television. She has over 15 years of experience developing and producing factual, lifestyle and documentary content for several networks including OWN, Slice, HGTV, Showtime, Global TV, Food Network Canada, TVO, CBC and Crave. Aisha has worn many hats, she was a content creator and the lead stylist on the primetime educational series Sex With Sunny Megatron. As a digital content creator she worked with brands including including Old Navy and Toni Plus. Her previous blog Fat in the City was featured in the Toronto Star, Metro, etalk, Refinery 29, Huffington Post and Essence. ​Aisha currently sits on the board of Inside Out LGBTQ+ Film Festival she served as Strategic Planning Committee Chair from 2020-22 and on the advisory council for Toronto Metropolitan University School of Fashion.Her film Body Politics premiered at the 2021 Hot Docs Documentary film festival and has since screened at festivals across the world. In 2023 she was the Series Producer on the Crave original series ‘1 Queen 5 Queers’, which won Best Talk Program or Series at the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards. Aisha is currently a Senior Producer on a new docuseries that will be airing on Crave. She is a community co-owner of Glad Day Bookshop - the world's oldest LGBT bookstore.
Jill Andrew
Co Founder
Andrew is an award-winning writer, a speaker, activist, equity educator and scholar. Her appearances include CTV, Global, CP24, MTV, CBC, BBC, THIS Magazine ("This Abject Body"), Metro News ("Ask Jill" life, career and education column), Toronto Star, tonight newspaper ("Jills Last Word") and NOW Magazine (Fashion). Andrew's community distinctions include: Premier of Ontario and JS Woodsworth Woman of Distinction nominations and being named one of University of Toronto Scarborough's "150 Neighbours" in recognition of outstanding contributions to the Scarborough community; two Canadian Ethnic Media Association awards, the Michele Landsberg Media Award among others. Her academic acknowledgements include CERLAC, Soroptimist Foundation of Canada, Patrick Solomon Urban Diversity awards, and being named Humber College’s School of Social & Community Services Alumna of Distinction. Andrew's doctoral research and focus include women & girls body image, leadership, race & representation politics, appearance-based discrimination, body-based harassment, and fashion. Andrew is a community co-owner of Glad Day Bookshop - the world's oldest LGBT bookstore. She is an avid cat lover, volunteer and donor within her communities.