Lionel Mann

Passionate about travel and the outdoors, Lionel has lived in 6 countries and has visited 31. After graduating from Dalhousie University in Halifax with a BA in Political Science and Sociology he flew to Canada’s Pacific shore to participate in the C.O.L.T program, one of the countries leading outdoor guiding schools located on Vancouver Island. After completion, he left to pursue an English teaching assignment in Tokyo and Sapporo before heading down to tour South America.

After a brief stint at running his own Kayak tour company back on Vancouver Island, Lionel returned to Ontario to attend school for graphic arts, web design and development. He has currently found a home with the Canadian Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute of Canada, where he is the Technical Specialist, Online Fundraising/Internet Marketing.

His continued interest in travel, photography and journalism has also led Lionel to Outpost Magazine, Canada’s largest adventure travel magazine, where he is the Online Manager and Associate Editor. In addition to a regular bi-monthly column on travel and technology, writing and photography assignments have landed him in Nicaragua, Taiwan and South Africa.

In 2005 he participated in the second annual Open Studio Tour photography exhibition in Toronto.

In addition, Lionel works as a freelance web developer with clients ranging from individuals to large corporations.

He has just returned from a year of adventures and independent project work with his wife, Nathalie, and is currently back home in Toronto working on a number of freelance projects.

Nathalie Bibeau

Passionate about movement, Nathalie has lived in 6 of the world’s countries and has visited 30 of them. She is fluent in French, English, Swedish and can order a bottle of wine in Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Lithuanian. Questions are her favourite thing, and she loves to answer them as much as ask them.

After 4 years at McGill University in Montréal, she came out with a Joint Honours B.A. in History & Sociology and went straight back in, this time at the University of Toronto, to do an M.A. in Russian history. Over the next few years, she did an internship with the Department of Foreign Affairs in Vilnius, Lithuania, taught French in Dublin, Ireland, at the Berlitz School of Language, and then taught high school History, English, French and Sex. Ed. at École Confédération in Welland, Ontario.

Looking for a career in Arts and Media, Nathalie found a mentor at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and has been working in the Documentary Production Unit for the last 6 years. She has been on field shoots in locations including the sub-Arctic, Louisiana, Boston, New York and Vancouver, and has produced documentaries on subjects as varied as the making of Robert Flaherty’s “Nanook of the North” to the corporate world’s intensifying interest in marketing to children.

Nathalie is a writer who, in addition to her ‘She Said’ column on this website, has published articles for newspapers including the Globe & Mail. She is also a public speaker who has pontificated at university Career Days, has told too many stories in bars the world over, and has hosted the Peter Gerretsen Film Awards in Toronto for the last 3 years.

She has just returned from a year of international travel and independent project work, and she’s currently working on a documentary about a World Cup soccer team.