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15 awesome Vancouverites you've never heard of

Tallulah has been sharing her wonderful Vancouver People Project for the past year and a half. She seeks out, photographs and interviews super interesting people who make our city what it is.
Bob Kronbauer
Bob Kronbauer
Tallulah has been sharing her wonderful Vancouver People Project for the past year and a half. She seeks out, photographs and interviews super interesting people who make our city what it is. While they may not be famous they're most certainly awesome, and just in case you missed her first 15 subjects, here's a summary and links to each one of them.

15 awesome Vancouverites you've never heard of

By Vancouver Is Awesome

The Vancouver People Project exposes some seriously interesting/awesome people in Vancouver whom you might not meet otherwise.

  • Kozue Matsumoto

    By Vancouver Is Awesome

    "The 2011 earthquake and tsunami was in my home region of Tohoku, so I have been working with the BC Japan Earthquake Relief Fund since then helping victims."

  • Uchenna Asiegbu

    By Vancouver Is Awesome

    "I love being around people and taking the time to make a person’s day, especially if they are strangers."

  • Mandy Moorish

    By Vancouver Is Awesome

    "One of my first careers was as a professional model, an image of me taken by Mario Testino."

  • Mary Ellen Brunner

    By Vancouver Is Awesome

    "I play in a duo called Roolya Boolya."

  • Leroy Wan

    By Vancouver Is Awesome

    "This year I wrote an essay that was published in Dan Savage’s handbook Radical Youth."

  • Lindsay Coulter

    By Vancouver Is Awesome

    "In the 1990s I was the “Weasel Woman;” I caught and tagged weasels in the boreal forest and learned to identify birds by song."

  • Charles Edward Bae

    By Vancouver Is Awesome

    "I am currently taking acting classes and climbing my way up the union ladder. This year I worked as a background performer on many of the series that were shot in Vancouver."

  • Lin Gardiner

    By Vancouver Is Awesome

    "I’ve spent the past few years working as a sound designer in video games, film and TV."

  • CHYCHO

    By Vancouver Is Awesome

    "I’ve been an environmental geophysicist, a comic book publisher, I’ve run a dating site, been a gambler and played the money markets. Now I teach math and create math instructional videos."

  • Faustine Des Rosiers

    By Vancouver Is Awesome

    "I’m best at helping people find solutions with their health and wellbeing."

  • Mad Dog

    By Vancouver Is Awesome

    "In the past 10 years I opened two galleries: the Alley Gallery out of my house and the Hasty Hawk Gallery."

  • Jay Catterson

    By Vancouver Is Awesome

    "I have sung with the Vancouver Men’s Choir since 2010 as a baritone and have been part of the dance ensemble for several shows as well."

  • Robert Wong

    By Vancouver Is Awesome

    "Vancouver is freedom."

  • Meaghan Astrid Kennedy

    By Vancouver Is Awesome

    "I am a Piñata Aficionado, making custom piñatas with flair."

  • Thomas Hamilton Esq.

    By Vancouver Is Awesome

    "I am a Scorpio Darling, that’s it."