People
Krystle Dos Santos
Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities
Krystle's term as a Shadbolt Fellow runs from September 2025 to May 2026.
is an actor, singer, creator and community organizer, who has produced two music albums and theatrical shows. Her albums have won the Western Canadian Music Award twice. She has also organized various educational programs about Black-Canadian history in Canada.
Continuing her passion to amplify and tell the many overlooked stories of Black Canadians, Dos Santos' project will put on a theatre show about the stories of the women who owned and ran the restaurant, Vie鈥檚 Chicken and Steaks in Vancouver鈥檚 Hogan鈥檚 Alley. This performance will tell the larger story of the historical Hogan鈥檚 Alley community, starting with the migration of a group of Black Americans from San Francisco to Salt Spring Island where Vie was born, to the destruction of the beloved Hogan鈥檚 Alley neighbourhood in 1975.
D. M. Bradford
Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities
Bradford's term as a Shadbolt Fellow runs from January to August 2026.
Darby Minott Bradford is an award-winning poet, translator, and accomplished literary programmer. They have published two poetry collections and two translations, which have collectively garnered accolades such as Winner of the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, Finalist for the Governor General Literary Award, and Finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Their latest translated work, Ring of Dust by Louise Marois, was published by Brick Books in spring 2025. During their fellowship, Bradford proposes to continue development of their hybrid-form manuscript Elsewhere, as well as grow an audio body of work based on these evolving texts. Through both this writing and recorded interviews with local literary artists, cultural workers, and 51社区黑料community members, their project seeks to investigate and open conversations about how people afford art and academic practices in unsustainably expensive cities. They will also serve as 51社区黑料English鈥檚 in Writer-in-Residence in Fall 2025.