Tzavta #11 Bev Berg and Christina Frangou

CHRISTINA FRANGOU

Christina Frangou is a features writer from Calgary, Canada. In 2017, she won a National Newspaper Award in long feature writing for a story about her own experience as a young widow in the aftermath of her husband’s death. A graduate of Carleton University and the London School of Economics, she is the recipient of two Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Awards, and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award.

BEV BERG

Bev Berg is a social worker and manager of advance-care planning and goals of care and the grief support program for the Calgary zone of AHS

SHELLEY YOUNGBLUT- Moderator

Shelley Youngblut is the CEO & Creative Ringleader of Wordfest. She was the recipient of the 2020 Calgary Award for Community Achievement in the Arts and the 2018 Rozsa Award for Arts Leadership. She also won the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Western Magazine Awards. Youngblut was the founding editor of Calgary’s award-winning Swervemagazine and has created magazines for ESPN, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, Nickelodeon, Western Living, and The Globe and Mail. A former pop-culture correspondent for ABC World News Now and Canada AM, she was also a frequent contributor to CBC Calgary’s The Eyeopener, The Homestretch, and Daybreak Alberta.