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 sat 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. . She is a community co-owner of Glad Day Bookshop - the world's oldest LGBT bookstore.
Jill Andrew
Co Founder, executive director
Dr. Jill Andrew, PhD (she/her) is an award-winning community leader, educator, speaker and former journalist. Her career spans leadership and community engagement as a child and youth worker, student equity and human rights advisor, an educator in both secondary and post-secondary institutions, policy and government, and longtime body justice advocacy. She is the co-founder and executive director of Body Confidence Canada, home to the Body Confidence Canada Awards and Body Confidence Awareness Week, recognized officially by two of Canada’s largest school boards.
Dr. Andrew has co-edited the two anthologies Body Stories: In and Out and With and Through Fat and Black Sisterhoods: Paradigms and Praxis. She also penned the foreword for Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field and the afterword for Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own. Her PhD in education from York University explored the trifecta of racism, sexism, and fat-hatred experienced by Black women in both private and public spaces and their tools of accommodation and resistance through fashion, social interaction, and activism. She specialized in qualitative, community based, methodologies.
Jill is also a member of the Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Fashion Advisory Council providing strategic council and support to the leadership team. Her advocacy and scholarship were also featured in the Hot Docs Citizen Minutes documentary Body Politics, among other noted works. In 2010, Jill was one of only 120 community leaders across Canada appointed to participate in then Canada’s Governor General Michaëlle Jean’s Together for Women’s Security conference at Rideau Hall where Jill was also appointed to lead as one of the Conference Declaration writers.
She has received numerous accolades, including the Michele Landsberg Media Activism Award, multiple Canadian Ethnic Media Awards, Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) Women’s Leadership and Social Activism, INSPIRE Awards Person of the Year, Canada’s 100 Black Women to Watch (CIBWE), the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention’s Lifelong Achievement Award, the former Senator Nancy Ruth Award for Gender Equality and Leadership, and Toronto Metropolitan University’s Viola Desmond Alumna Award Honouree. Jill was also recognized for her commitment to social justice, community advocacy, equity, and leadership by Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), and Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) during 2023 Black History Month – the first time a living activist had received the special honour. She was recognized as one of Museum Toronto’s 52 Women Who Changed Toronto. Most recently in December 2025, Dr. Andrew received the Urban Alliance on Race Relations, Racial Justice Award (Government) during their 50th anniversary ceremony held in Toronto.
In June 2018, Dr. Andrew made history as the first queer Black person elected to any provincial legislature in Canada, serving as a Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario’s Legislative Assembly. She was also nominated in 2022 to serve as the first Black woman Deputy Speak of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario but due to an unprecedented change to protocol by the current Conservative majority government, Dr. Andrew was restricted from this opportunity to further make history.
As an Official Opposition Critic/ Shadow Minister, Jill advocated for women’s social and economic opportunities, arts, culture, and heritage. Jill was also well known for her tenants and housing, education, access to inclusive healthcare, human rights, equity, and workers’ rights advocacy, producing dozens of summits on the issues that matter and also publishing annual Tenants Right guides. She is also one of few Opposition Members who have successfully passed legislation. Her Bill 61 passed unanimously declaring the first week in February Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Jill lives in Toronto with her partner Aisha, their cat kids Josephine Baker and Dorothy Dandridge, and her beloved mother Josephine.
Educational background includes:
Child & Youth Worker Diploma with President's Distinction, Humber College
Undergraduate education at York U (BA, BA Hons, Sociology, Liberal Arts, Theatre, Equity)
Teachers College BEd at York U (Social Sciences & Dramatic Arts)
Women & Gender Studies MA, University of Toronto
PhD Education, York U