Founders
The collective was founded by Nishi Gouldbourne and Karen Miranda Augustine in 2024.
Nishi Gouldbourne
Nishi (they/fae) is a disabled birth and cultural worker of Jamaican descent. They curate spaces for deep introspection, often cultivating containers for grief and loss, while nurturing intergenerational communal healing, ritual, and self-expression through the healing arts. Their practice is rooted in kinship between spirit, self, plants, and community.
Karen Miranda Augustine
Karen Miranda is a visual artist and writer. Her work is influenced by the sacred arts and explores memorialization, gender, loss, and interconnectedness. The founder of ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM caregiving artists collective, she is a peer bereavement care volunteer (Hospice Toronto) and a trained death worker.