Melanie Panitch is an associate professor and executive director, Office of Social Innovation at Toronto Metropolitan University. As the John C. Eaton Chair of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, she co-designed a minor in social innovation and developed partnerships internationally. She spearheaded the Sanctuary Scholars initiative, providing access to postsecondary for students with precarious immigration status. An activist, advocate, researcher and educator with strong roots in the disability rights movement, she was the founding director of the School of Disability Studies at TMU. The exhibit she co-curated, Out from Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember, is in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. She is the author of Mothers, Disability and Organization: Accidental Activists.
Samantha Wehbi is a professor, School of Social Work at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research and artistic-practice interests have focused on international issues and grassroots community activism and organizing in Canada and abroad, including Lebanon, her country of origin. Her work has explored the complexities of urban landscapes and issues of displacement, postcolonialism, translocality and social change. Her scholarship explores interdisciplinary intersections of art, community practice and pedagogy. Dr. Wehbi is the co-editor of Re-imagining Anti-oppression Social Work: Reflecting on Research and Re-imagining Anti-oppression Social Work: Reflecting on Practice.
Jessica P. Machado is the programming and stakeholder engagement officer in the Office of Social Innovation at Toronto Metropolitan University. She has been creating and supporting social innovation initiatives in higher education for nearly ten years. She has created a funding program for student organizers and activists and supported the development of an access pathway to postsecondary education for people with precarious immigration status. She is a steward with her local union and is involved in grassroots community activism in gender-based and sexual violence. She has an M.Ed. in adult education and community development from the University of Toronto, and her work explores critical pedagogy through coalition-building activities and social movements.

Chapter 1:: Framing Social Innovation as a Call for Social Transformation (Melanie Panitch, Jessica Pimentel Machado, Samantha Wehbi)
Chapter 2:: Social Innovation Re-loaded: The Social as Innovation (Kiaras Gharabaghi)
Chapter 3:: Pro-Tests and Making with Place: Socially Engaged-Arts Activisms and Innovations reCentring the Margins (Phyllis Novak, Charlotte Lombardo)
Chapter 4:: Considering Networked Responses as Social Innovation: Case Examples of Community Care, Incels & Amazon Ring (Lauren Morris, Al Cunningham Rogers, Quinn MacNeil)
Chapter 5:: Power Sharing, Community Leadership and Dynamic Governance at the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (SHIFT Governance Hub members, Cheryl Gladu, Stephanie Childs, Kristen Young, Katarina Prystay)
Chapter 6:: Life Imitates Art: Collage as Innovative Pedagogy (Ken Moffatt, Reena Tandon)
Chapter 7:: The Importance of Justice and Decolonization: Questions in Science Education (Brooke Filsinger, Roxana Sühring)
Chapter 8:: Innovate for Impact: Unleashing Social Change through Values-Driven Leadership and Visionary Action (Wilson Leung)
: Glossary
: References
Chapter 1:: Framing Social Innovation as a Call for Social Transformation (Melanie Panitch, Jessica Pimentel Machado, Samantha Wehbi)
Chapter 2:: Social Innovation Re-loaded: The Social as Innovation (Kiaras Gharabaghi)
Chapter 3:: Pro-Tests and Making with Place: Socially Engaged-Arts Activisms and Innovations reCentring the Margins (Phyllis Novak, Charlotte Lombardo)
Chapter 4:: Considering Networked Responses as Social Innovation: Case Examples of Community Care, Incels & Amazon Ring (Lauren Morris, Al Cunningham Rogers, Quinn MacNeil)
Chapter 5:: Power Sharing, Community Leadership and Dynamic Governance at the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (SHIFT Governance Hub members, Cheryl Gladu, Stephanie Childs, Kristen Young, Katarina Prystay)
Chapter 6:: Life Imitates Art: Collage as Innovative Pedagogy (Ken Moffatt, Reena Tandon)
Chapter 7:: The Importance of Justice and Decolonization: Questions in Science Education (Brooke Filsinger, Roxana Sühring)
Chapter 8:: Innovate for Impact: Unleashing Social Change through Values-Driven Leadership and Visionary Action (Wilson Leung)
: Glossary
: References
Chapter 1:: Framing Social Innovation as a Call for Social Transformation (Melanie Panitch, Jessica Pimentel Machado, Samantha Wehbi)
Chapter 2:: Social Innovation Re-loaded: The Social as Innovation (Kiaras Gharabaghi)
Chapter 3:: Pro-Tests and Making with Place: Socially Engaged-Arts Activisms and Innovations reCentring the Margins (Phyllis Novak, Charlotte Lombardo)
Chapter 4:: Considering Networked Responses as Social Innovation: Case Examples of Community Care, Incels & Amazon Ring (Lauren Morris, Al Cunningham Rogers, Quinn MacNeil)
Chapter 5:: Power Sharing, Community Leadership and Dynamic Governance at the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (SHIFT Governance Hub members, Cheryl Gladu, Stephanie Childs, Kristen Young, Katarina Prystay)
Chapter 6:: Life Imitates Art: Collage as Innovative Pedagogy (Ken Moffatt, Reena Tandon)
Chapter 7:: The Importance of Justice and Decolonization: Questions in Science Education (Brooke Filsinger, Roxana Sühring)
Chapter 8:: Innovate for Impact: Unleashing Social Change through Values-Driven Leadership and Visionary Action (Wilson Leung)
: Glossary
: References
Chapter 1:: Framing Social Innovation as a Call for Social Transformation (Melanie Panitch, Jessica Pimentel Machado, Samantha Wehbi)
Chapter 2:: Social Innovation Re-loaded: The Social as Innovation (Kiaras Gharabaghi)
Chapter 3:: Pro-Tests and Making with Place: Socially Engaged-Arts Activisms and Innovations reCentring the Margins (Phyllis Novak, Charlotte Lombardo)
Chapter 4:: Considering Networked Responses as Social Innovation: Case Examples of Community Care, Incels & Amazon Ring (Lauren Morris, Al Cunningham Rogers, Quinn MacNeil)
Chapter 5:: Power Sharing, Community Leadership and Dynamic Governance at the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (SHIFT Governance Hub members, Cheryl Gladu, Stephanie Childs, Kristen Young, Katarina Prystay)
Chapter 6:: Life Imitates Art: Collage as Innovative Pedagogy (Ken Moffatt, Reena Tandon)
Chapter 7:: The Importance of Justice and Decolonization: Questions in Science Education (Brooke Filsinger, Roxana Sühring)
Chapter 8:: Innovate for Impact: Unleashing Social Change through Values-Driven Leadership and Visionary Action (Wilson Leung)
: Glossary
: References
Chapter 1:: Framing Social Innovation as a Call for Social Transformation (Melanie Panitch, Jessica Pimentel Machado, Samantha Wehbi)
Chapter 2:: Social Innovation Re-loaded: The Social as Innovation (Kiaras Gharabaghi)
Chapter 3:: Pro-Tests and Making with Place: Socially Engaged-Arts Activisms and Innovations reCentring the Margins (Phyllis Novak, Charlotte Lombardo)
Chapter 4:: Considering Networked Responses as Social Innovation: Case Examples of Community Care, Incels & Amazon Ring (Lauren Morris, Al Cunningham Rogers, Quinn MacNeil)
Chapter 5:: Power Sharing, Community Leadership and Dynamic Governance at the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (SHIFT Governance Hub members, Cheryl Gladu, Stephanie Childs, Kristen Young, Katarina Prystay)
Chapter 6:: Life Imitates Art: Collage as Innovative Pedagogy (Ken Moffatt, Reena Tandon)
Chapter 7:: The Importance of Justice and Decolonization: Questions in Science Education (Brooke Filsinger, Roxana Sühring)
Chapter 8:: Innovate for Impact: Unleashing Social Change through Values-Driven Leadership and Visionary Action (Wilson Leung)
: Glossary
: References