Vanessa Quon is a Toronto-based writer and editor. She's currently completing her final year at the Ryerson School of Journalism and is a print senior editor for the Review. She is also the editor-in-chief of New Wave Magazine, a Ryerson-based feminist publication. Alongside the Review and New Wave, her bylines have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Eyeopener, and Ryerson Folio.
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