Leah Houston has been cultivating a dynamic, multi-disciplinary community-based arts practice for almost 15 years, incorporating public art, installation, and performance with public space transformation, working with people of all ages and backgrounds. Leah has created and produced many community arts events and led a number of artists to create new work that tells the ordinary, extraordinary stories of our lives. Leah has worked with diverse communities including in Ontario’s Muskoka Region, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Kathmandu, Nepal. She was the recipient of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013) and the Toronto Foundation Vital People's Award (2016). Leah is a graduate of York University’s Environmental Studies Department and holds an M.A from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.