Meet the Executive

Editors Toronto’s executive committee is elected each May or June at the branch annual general meeting (AGM), and any Editors Toronto member may apply for a position. Here is the group that is representing you for the 2024–25 season.

Co-chair: Adrienne Bartl

Adrienne is a freelance non-fiction editor and owner of Barke Editing Services where she specializes in editing food writing and recipes. She earned a publishing certificate from Toronto Metropolitan University and now works with clients who include self-published authors and chefs looking to bring their flavour to the North American kitchen.

In her spare time, Adrienne enjoys volunteering for her children’s school, attempting unnecessarily complicated recipes at home, and practising both yoga and balancing on her paddleboard (occasionally at the same time).

Main duties: ensures the branch is running smoothly by improving and establishing processes, supporting other chairs, and presiding at executive and business meetings, and acts as the main contact with the national executive council (NEC).

Treasurer: Ginny Leuty

Ginny is a freelance copy editor who works for FriesenPress as well as for her own clients. She began by editing for non-profit organizations and now specializes in non-fiction books. She has a degree in English literature and received her editing certificate from George Brown College. Prior to editing, Ginny worked in the arts, first at the National Ballet of Canada and then as the director of Art Gems, a high-level art auction that raises funds for an arts-based mental health rehabilitation program.

Ginny is also teaching herself to paint with watercolours.

Main duties: sets the yearly budget with input from other chairs, keeps track of the budget and (along with the co-chairs) approves additional expenses/spending, acts as a point of contact for our accountant, pays speakers and seminar hosts/developers, and reimburses other chairs for Editors Toronto–related expenses.

Communications co-chair: Keisha Raymond-Doopan

Keisha is an editor and content designer whose dedication to editing was solidified during her studies in the editing program at George Brown College. Currently, she works as a digital experience manager at a prominent Canadian bank. She also takes on web-focused editing projects outside her primary job. Apart from her professional pursuits, she enjoys planning and hosting exciting events.

Main duties: manages the Editors Toronto web page and social media accounts (Facebook, Mailchimp), writes and edits monthly newsletters, plans social media campaigns, and responds to Editors Toronto emails.

Communications co-chair: Carmina Ravanera

Carmina is an editor, writer, and researcher. She developed her editorial skills through a publishing certificate at Toronto Metropolitan University and as an editor at GUTS Magazine. Her writing has appeared in Grain, The Fiddlehead, Room, and the Toronto Star, and other publications.

Carmina is currently a Senior Research Associate at the University of Toronto, where she researches and writes about gender equity and the economy. She holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking and film photography.

Co-editor-in-chief, BoldFace: Anneline Du Preez

Anneline is a freelance editor, proofreader, and academic and corporate writer. Originally from South Africa, she has over 25 years of experience. Although she has worked in many different industries, academic and educational publishing is her favourite. She co-authored, edited, and proofread a number of school and university titles for Oxford University Press, Macmillan Education and other publishers in South Africa.

She enjoys working in the Canadian editorial sector and learning her new country’s grammar, spelling and style conventions. She absolutely loves volunteering with BoldFace and making new friends in Canada’s editorial community, a perk that comes with this role!

Main duties: generates blog post ideas and plans content, reviews submissions for structure and style, coordinates the executive review and copy editing process, publishes blog posts, and maintains the BoldFace website.

Co-editor-in-chief, BoldFace: Ruth E. Thaler-Carter

Ruth E. Thaler-Carter started out as a newspaper reporter, added editing/proofreading to her skillset over time, and went freelance full-time in 1984. She writes, copy edits and proofs projects in diversity, law, PR, retirement policy, women’s health, decorative arts, gardening, Porsche history, machine computing, weddings, independent publishing, the metric system and more. She presents and writes about editing and freelancing for Editors Canada and Toronto, ACES: The Society for Editing, the Cat Writers Association, National Federation of Press Women, Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA), National Association of Independent Writers and Editors, St. Louis Publishers Association, Society of Professional Journalists Freelance Community, San Diego Professional Editors Network, American Medical Writers Association/St. Louis, St. Louis Writers Guild, and more.

Thaler-Carter wrote the EFA’s original Freelancing 101: Launching Your Editorial Business and co-authored the current edition; co-authored the current edition of the EFA’s “Resumés for Freelancers …”; and is editor-in-chief of An American Editor blog; and creator/host of Communication Central’s “Be a Better Freelancer”® conference. She’s delighted to contribute to BoldFace and other Editors Toronto projects.

Programs chair: Mary Brydon-Kehoe

Mary recently transitioned to a career in freelance editing and is working on getting her agency, Elixir Editorial, off the ground. She studied English and antiquity at the University of Toronto, and is currently honing her editorial skills through the professional editing standards certificate program at Queen’s University. Mary has been a writer for most of her life and has a great love for speculative fiction. Her various interests include role-playing games, singing, and aviation.

Main duties: develops and plans monthly programs, brainstorms topics and reaches out to potential speakers, secures accommodations/Zoom meeting slots, hosts events, and writes program promos for email blasts, social media, and BoldFace blog.

Vice-chair: Vacant

Main duties: assists and, when necessary, acts in place of the co-chairs, manages and recruits local volunteers, and maintains the Slack platform for the executive committee.

Secretary: Vacant

Main duties: records and updates the minutes during monthly executive meetings, prepares the template for executive committee members to input their reports, and proofreads chair reports to ensure that they adhere to the Editors Toronto style guide.

Community liaison: Vacant

Main duties: acts as the point person for member and prospective member questions, welcomes new members and guests at social events and programs, facilitates the Q&A at programs, plans virtual and in-person networking and social events for members and the wider publishing/communications/freelancer community, and liaises with other associated groups and organizations.

Seminars chair: Vacant

Main duties: coordinates the seminars program, including current seminars as well as future seminar development, writes promotional materials for social media, email, and BoldFace, communicates with instructors and clients, and ensures that seminar fees are collected from clients.

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