Not so long ago, Angélique or Blacky Gyan landed in Quebec with suitcases full of clothes ‘’made in Dakar’’, diplomas and work experiences in finance that she acquired in France and Senegal. Aware of all the opportunities ahead of her, thirty-year-old Angélique has not stopped getting conversations started about her ‘’countless projects’’. With a strong entrepreneurial instinct given to her by her parents, she became a serial social entrepreneur that can proudly hold the title of model, cofounder of the concept-store Cheliel, founder of R Magazine, one of the TravelEaters behind LekkTukki, cooking addict, amateur fashion designer, etc. Immersed in Montreal’s flourishing world of art, culture and entrepreneurship, the epicurean African woman that Angélique is finds herself very involved in ‘’her communities’’.

Originally from Montpellier, a city in the South of France, she has been living in Montreal (Canada) since 2013. Always eager to travel and experience new things, she is filled by her persisting dreams and life-long challenges.
After finishing her studies in communication, she created her own website where we can find her favorite art findings.
Having developed a taste for writing in the last ten years, she has seamlessly joined the magazine’s team since its second release. Very fond of numeric and graphic communication, she takes part in the promotion of R Magazine by running social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Being a very versatile person, she also participates in the magazine’s layout with other graphic designers.

As a former student at the University of Strasbourg, Adrien studied French literature and completed a bachelor’s degree in modern literature in 2016 as well as a master’s degree in French literature and comparative literature. He made this studies choice driven by the will to reach a perfect command of French. As part of his literature studies, he wrote a thesis on the imaginary in the works of Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Originally from Paris, found a pleasant cocoon in the South-East of France with sunshine, the song of cicadas and the sweet scent of lavender.

I practice meditation and yoga regularly. Has several hats that go hand in hand with my many certifications. Passionate about Japanese arts and adept at DIY, practices origami, jewelry making, embroidery and painting on canvas. I love travelling, nature excursions where I can hear the wind blowing in my ears, birdsong ringing in my head and enjoying the serenity of the place. I read many books on spirituality and personal development.

Having already volunteered for a young start-up in the Parisian suburbs in the agri-food industry for more than a year and a half, and having a very rich professional experience in the web environment and in the digital professions, I joined the magazine team for my editing and content writing skills that I put to use.

Coming from Bordeaux and studying in anthropology, she works for her thesis about digital activism in India and the way the Internet contributes, to diversifying cultural offer and its accessibility driven by artists and militant initiatives. Alice is inspired by music, literature and the arts that help us to develop a critical eye over gender issues and the challenges of diversity. Being an R Magazine member a great opportunity for her to discover and share new works of art, thoughts, and ideas.

Graduated from Art History and Heritage in Paris, she has worked in tourism, culture and education. She loves epic, never-ending travels, modern languages, places that no one visits, old tin boxes, real stories hidden in fiction books, friendly people and dogs, enigma of artistic creation and the Czech beer.

Fascinated by arts since her childhood, she discovered her love for cinema and then discovered she had interests in music and painting. As time goes on, her curiosity and interest do not weaken. On the contrary, they expand to any form of arts, which explains her desire to work in the art and culture fields. What she enjoys the most: drama or drama-comedy, indie-folk music, and figurative art. She is also interested in encounters with people, discovering the plurality of the inspirations, the creations, and the understanding that artists can share. What Constance also likes is the fact that art brings people together; art is not restricted to experts but to any person who could feel emotions standing in front of a work of art. She is also sympathetic to nature and animal welfare, human rights, and solidarity.

Maagnyeta is a Cameroonian who has already been living in France for a few years. She has frequently volunteered. However, it is the first time she has volunteered at a medium like R Magazine whose values she shares. She has a great interest in cultures, history, and human civilizations. She loves reading and is a big fan of stylism and DIY.

As a young French expat in Senegal since 2018, she could describe herself as a lover of art objects. She is a trained auction clerk. After she completed law studies, she started her career with a notarial profession. She discovered what was her passion thanks to the estates she managed with the auctioneers. She left everything to complete a bachelor’s degree in Art History and to become a clerk. However, her husband had to go to Africa, and she decided to move too and follow him! Since there was no auction system in Dakar, she changed her career. She first opened a contemporary art gallery, then she turned to communication. Today, she combines her work and her passion and communicates mainly for Galleries and Cultural Institutions.

When she was 17, Lily landed in Quebec and fell in love with this country without really knowing why. Very quickly, it became obvious to her that journalism was her way. She thus became a Media Degree student. Writing about culture, people, and their stories, that is what she loves, and this is also the reason why she joined R Magazine in 2021. Lily loves the blue color and ankles. Lily doesn’t like Brussel sprouts and the noise of horns.

100% italian, french by adoption, Chiara, after a double fanco-italian diploma, chose to continue her studies in France. She is currently enrolled in the 3rd year of her Philosophy bachelor at the Université de Lyon. Fascinated by the magical world of reading and writing at a young age, she has often participated in literary competitions by trying to refine her abilities as a writer and a narrator throughout the years. To her biggest pleasure, she travels a lot and often has the opportunity to make contact with a wide variety of civilisations and cultures.

Small quirk: she profoundly believes in the power words have for revelations; they are, in her opinion, capable of capturing our feelings and our intimate reflections and of restoring them into the world in a more comprehensive, transparent, and harmonious form. She is a motivated, curious and spiritually inclined person: her goal is to fulfill her dreams all while becoming a better version of herself!

Holder of a double masters’ diploma in Linguistics, Charline has studied in France, then in Germany where she has lived a few months (without knowing a word of german). She has always wanted to live abroad, for her studies or her work, and still hopes to do so one day. She loves travels, spoken languages, art, literature and adores horror films. Interested by the web editor position, R Magazine is the opportunity for her to hone her writing skills but especially to contribute to fascinating projects that commit to a cause.

Always with her nose in a book and a lover of the arts and philosophy, her thirst for knowledge is insatiable. Holder of her second bachelor’s degree, she has gone off to the countryside in order to dedicate herself to her dream of writing and of reading by the fire. Her next dream is only waiting for you! Sharing her passions, her opinions, her inspirations, her disappointments.

A student who majored in foreign languages and a wanderer at heart, she dreams of living amazing adventures, like in Jules Verne’s novels. She loves imaginary worlds, second-hand bookstores, thrift shops, teahouses, but above all her horse.

French and Senegalese, in her thirties. Literature professor and writer. A novel in her drawers, a few poems hanging around and a lot of article ideas. All the causes R Magazine supports align with values whose promotion she takes to heart : culture, diversity, openness and a new outlook on the world. She loves to base her writing on interviews and joins the team with all her enthusiasm!

Baptiste Crespim Bidarra is a french writer and journalist. Musically trained, Achille initially performed as a jazz pianist around the world, visiting Washington Square, the New York Steinway Hall, Smalls Jazz Club, the UNESCO Paris Auditorium, Dijon Opera, Cité de la Musique de Paris, Théâtre du Chatelet …, for about a decade. He got himself more interested in politics during his music studies at Conservatoire de Paris, where he progressively started writing about it. The Paris attacks of 2015 grandly impacted the young student’s path, making him express himself more and more from sounds to words ; since then, his articles would recount everything dealing with cultures, ideas and societies on a global scale, encouraging a fresh yet honestly subjective eye. In Autumn 2021, Achille enrolled at Institut de Formation Politique (Institute for political training) and École Supérieure de Journalisme de Paris (Paris Graduate School for Journalism) ; writing at the same time for french politics & culture focused newspapers. He started contributing to R Magazine in january 2022.

Enola, just the first name sounds creative. From a young age, she has had an overflowing imagination and thirst for creation.
She is interested in writing, psychology, theater, cinema, costume, photography and more.
She dreams of living from her passions and sharing them with the world. Nothing better to leave a mark than writing. She is not afraid to fight for her ideas and her values.

Naoufal Hamada is a 25 years old editor.

Mathilde, 23, is in the third year of the Bachelor of Letters and Arts, major in history of art at the Jean Jaurès University in Toulouse. She loves writing, taking pictures a lot and she also loves animation (Japanese animation film and anime). She joined R magazine because she found it pertinent and interesting to value underrated artists in order to promote their work. She also loved the fact that the team is all over the world!

Senda Mestiri holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology obtained at UQAM in 2020. She arrived 7 years ago from Tunisia to find the great cold of Canada! And this to aspire to a better future… She is passionate about interculturality, inclusivity, intersectional feminism, Middle Eastern culture, poetry and her cat Chichou! She has worked in the field of psycho-social intervention for more than 3 years and has learned lessons about the stigmatization of certain layers of society. Today in professional retraining Senda desires more than anything to share and receive experiences life of every human endowed with sensitivity.

A final year student in applied foreign languages, she is very passionate about living languages and foreign cultures. She also enjoys endless travels, swimming and music.
Writing is a means of expressing her emotions, she plans to continue her studies and professional career in this field, so it is only natural that she joins the magazine team.

As a student in LEA, Elisa has loved writing for a long time and choosing a literary path was an obvious choice. Wishing to become a journalist, she did her undergraduate internship at R Magazine in order to gain experience. Curious, interested and thorough are the words that describe her.

Malik is a 3rd year student in LEA at the University of Saint-Etienne. Interested in languages and the Japanese universe, he is dynamic and proud of his origins. He likes football, as showed by his profile picture ^^.

Not so long ago, Angélique or Blacky Gyan landed in Quebec with suitcases full of clothes ‘’made in Dakar’’, diplomas and work experiences in finance that she acquired in France and Senegal. Aware of all the opportunities ahead of her, thirty-year-old Angélique has not stopped getting conversations started about her ‘’countless projects’’. With a strong entrepreneurial instinct given to her by her parents, she became a serial social entrepreneur that can proudly hold the title of model, cofounder of the concept-store Cheliel, founder of R Magazine, one of the TravelEaters behind LekkTukki, cooking addict, amateur fashion designer, etc. Immersed in Montreal’s flourishing world of art, culture and entrepreneurship, the epicurean African woman that Angélique is finds herself very involved in ‘’her communities’’.

Originally from Montpellier, a city in the South of France, she has been living in Montreal (Canada) since 2013. Always eager to travel and experience new things, she is filled by her persisting dreams and life-long challenges.
After finishing her studies in communication, she created her own website where we can find her favorite art findings.
Having developed a taste for writing in the last ten years, she has seamlessly joined the magazine’s team since its second release. Very fond of numeric and graphic communication, she takes part in the promotion of R Magazine by running social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Being a very versatile person, she also participates in the magazine’s layout with other graphic designers.

Benefiting from many experiences … gifted writer … elegant … guilty of worrying about the right way to speak … she is the dream reviewer for anyone looking to solve any Shakespearean mystery!

Passionate about travelling and charity work, she is very imaginative with a curious mind and an eye for detail. She practices a drastically different career, but we can say that she very well takes upon herself the cohabitation of numbers and letters in her life.
Marie Agathe also brings with each of her translation a touch of England, a country where she lived for many years.

Even though Monique is French – she was born in France- she has Vietnamese origins and was completely brought up in the Vietnamese way. This is the reason why she can speak and write in Vietnamese – although badly, in her opinion! This year, she is going to celebrate her 60th birthday.
She is an early retiree, unwillingly, and wanted to give of her time to the association as well as to share the expertise she acquired throughout her career in the cosmetics packaging industry.

As a former student at the University of Strasbourg, Adrien studied French literature and completed a bachelor’s degree in modern literature in 2016 as well as a master’s degree in French literature and comparative literature. He made this studies choice driven by the will to reach a perfect command of French. As part of his literature studies, he wrote a thesis on the imaginary in the works of Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Originally from Paris, found a pleasant cocoon in the South-East of France with sunshine, the song of cicadas and the sweet scent of lavender.

I practice meditation and yoga regularly. Has several hats that go hand in hand with my many certifications. Passionate about Japanese arts and adept at DIY, practices origami, jewelry making, embroidery and painting on canvas. I love travelling, nature excursions where I can hear the wind blowing in my ears, birdsong ringing in my head and enjoying the serenity of the place. I read many books on spirituality and personal development.

Having already volunteered for a young start-up in the Parisian suburbs in the agri-food industry for more than a year and a half, and having a very rich professional experience in the web environment and in the digital professions, I joined the magazine team for my editing and content writing skills that I put to use.

Graduated from Art History and Heritage in Paris, she has worked in tourism, culture and education. She loves epic, never-ending travels, modern languages, places that no one visits, old tin boxes, real stories hidden in fiction books, friendly people and dogs, enigma of artistic creation and the Czech beer.

She lived in Indonesia during all her childhood and teen years before moving to France in 2017 to pursue a degree in Literature. She has been surrounded by various forms of art all her life and has trouble seeing it devoid of any type of creativity. Everything that concerns the process of creation and culture fascinates her; she has a significant inclination for fiction, and her favorite pass time is staying cooped up in her head, narrating whatever story passes through her mind.

Born in the Parisian region, of a beautiful encounter at the French embassy in Washington DC between her father, then on mission for the French government, and her mother, born in St George (Beauce Canadian), who was then an executive secretary. Doctor in pharmacy, she has been living in Annecy, in Upper Savoy, for 37 years and is the mother of 3 children. She has been cradled by her mother’s childhood memories, her dad passing away when she was 18 months old. How does she define herself? She loves people, others, foreign languages, to talk just because, to establish a link even if it’s short-lived, to listen, to joke around, to look for and sometimes find solutions, to fully live in the present or to at least try to, taking a walk on long deserted beaches, rain or blowing wind be dammed, the leaves’ whisper in the wind, picking up rocks, to observe the fauna and flora in their natural habitat in the happenstance of walks. She loves Kandinsky, Cézanne, Picasso, Klimt, mashed almonds, crossword puzzles, to write, to draw and paint, cats. She likes the moment when day breaks into darkness, this blurry boundary between dog and wolf, the crackling of the fire roaring in the hearth and the complicit shadows that dance along the walls, the smell of musk, of freshly cut herbs and of lilac. She hates injustice, contempt towards the weakest, mistreatment, arrogance, alarm clocks, unclaimed crumbs on the table, the smell of chlorine, and spelling mistakes, of course!

Senda Mestiri holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology obtained at UQAM in 2020. She arrived 7 years ago from Tunisia to find the great cold of Canada! And this to aspire to a better future… She is passionate about interculturality, inclusivity, intersectional feminism, Middle Eastern culture, poetry and her cat Chichou! She has worked in the field of psycho-social intervention for more than 3 years and has learned lessons about the stigmatization of certain layers of society. Today in professional retraining Senda desires more than anything to share and receive experiences life of every human endowed with sensitivity.

A final year student in applied foreign languages, she is very passionate about living languages and foreign cultures. She also enjoys endless travels, swimming and music.
Writing is a means of expressing her emotions, she plans to continue her studies and professional career in this field, so it is only natural that she joins the magazine team.

As a student in LEA, Elisa has loved writing for a long time and choosing a literary path was an obvious choice. Wishing to become a journalist, she did her undergraduate internship at R Magazine in order to gain experience. Curious, interested and thorough are the words that describe her.

Malik is a 3rd year student in LEA at the University of Saint-Etienne. Interested in languages and the Japanese universe, he is dynamic and proud of his origins. He likes football, as showed by his profile picture ^^.

Being both an artist and a student, Inès feels at her best when she is immersed in creation. For as long as she can remember, she has always been interested by multiple art forms such as drawing, photography and, most importantly, music and writing (Inès is a wordsmith!). Always looking forward to new experiences, she recounts her new discoveries to curious ears.

Parisian in her thirties with a career having to do with numbers, Bernie is a photography lover who spends her free time as ‘’The glob’girl’’. For her, photography is a way to express her artistic side, which has followed her since a very young age, a time during which she loved drawing. Still today, she sometimes doodles ideas for future photo shoots. Her current work contributes to highlight femininity, but she also values project that promote love and racial harmony. One of her next goal is to work with male models.

Ray is a self-taught photographer from Indonesia based in Paris. His work is mostly made up of photos from trips in Asia and Europe. He is currently working on a project showcasing portraits of people from all around the world and their take on life.

As a young French expat in Senegal since 2018, she could describe herself as a lover of art objects. She is a trained auction clerk. After she completed law studies, she started her career with a notarial profession. She discovered what was her passion thanks to the estates she managed with the auctioneers. She left everything to complete a bachelor’s degree in Art History and to become a clerk. However, her husband had to go to Africa, and she decided to move too and follow him! Since there was no auction system in Dakar, she changed her career. She first opened a contemporary art gallery, then she turned to communication. Today, she combines her work and her passion and communicates mainly for Galleries and Cultural Institutions.

Stefdekarda is a photographer and a graphic designer for many famous Senegalese artists, an african correspondent for a Franco-American magazine and the person responsible for the production of a successful TV show on Senegalese television. Stefdekarda has also recently participated in a reality TV show where the winner would be recognized throughout Africa as a stylist amongst other things.