STAFF
Carolyn Combs
Executive & Festival Director
Carolyn Combs (she/her) has worked in the arts as a filmmaker and organizational leader for over twenty years. She is currently Executive Director of Mayworks, and formerly Executive Director of Women in Film and Television Vancouver. Her focus is building community engagement and organizational capacity for the creation and presentation of original works by diverse artists. Her films, rooted in the neighbourhoods in which she has lived, have screened at both local and international festivals. Contact: director[at]mayworks[dot]ca
Mitra Fakhrashrafi
Programming & Curatorial Coordinator
Beginning in street art, Mitra (she/her) is a curator interested in creating places of sanctuary and indebted to border abolition organizing. Mapping the legacies of colonial infrastructure and the resistance which has always followed ground and guide her work. Mitra is chair of Whippersnapper Gallery’s Board of Director’s and was most recently awarded the 2021 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curator’s. Mitra holds a Master of Arts in Geography & Urban Planning and is completing a Master of Information in Library & Information Sciences at the University of Toronto’s iSchool. Mitra has previously organized alongside the UTSC Women & Trans Centre, the Canadian Federation of Students (Ontario), and UofT Divest. In her spare time she listens to music that emerges from Toronto; a since-always queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and diasporic city. Contact: programming[at]mayworks[dot]ca
Farah Mailik
Bookkeeper
Farah has worked in the non-profit sector for over ten years with a range of experience from bookkeeping to Director of Finance. She undertakes Pakistani ethnic Truck Art on furniture as her hobby. Farah holds a close interest in the areas of social an economic justice. She is currently working towards her CPA designation.
Mayworks Announces Departure of Eileen Wennekers
Having been our communications and outreach coordinator for Mayworks 2022, Eileen Wennekers has decided to move on to pursue other endeavors.
Mayworks sincerely appreciates her many contributions to the organization and all of us, Board and staff, wish her well.