Mark is Checking In with Swim Drink Fish Ambassadors about living with social distancing. Here, Madhu Nagaraja answers Mark’s questions. Madhu Nagaraja is a technology leader, entrepreneur, and adventurer. He is an experienced corporate leader and marathon swimmer who has taken on some of the greatest open water challenges in the world, including the English Channel, Lake Ontario and the ice mile. In 2017, Madhu became the first Canadian and first Indian to swim the…

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Mark is Checking In with Swim Drink Fish Ambassadors about living with social distancing. Here, Loren King answers Mark’s questions. Loren King is a professor and marathon swimmer. He holds a doctorate from M.I.T. and teaches at Wilfrid Laurier University. In August 2016 he swam across Lake Ontario following the classic Marilyn Bell route, and in August 2019 he successfully swam across the English Channel. He and Madhu Nagaraja are the founding members of the…

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Mark is Checking In with Swim Drink Fish Ambassadors about living with social distancing. Here, Wade Davis answers Mark’s questions. Wade Davis is an ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker. Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. He travels the globe to live alongside indigenous peoples and document their cultural practices in books, photographs, and film. Wade Davis is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society,…

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Mark is Checking In with Swim Drink Fish Ambassadors about living with social distancing. Here, Denise Donlon answers Mark’s questions. Denise Donlon has helped raise $1-million for swimmable, drinkable, fishable water. She is an author, an activist, and has been a leader in the Canadian cultural landscape for over 30 years as GM of CBC English Radio, President of Sony Music Canada, and various executive and on-air positions at ChumTelevision, The NewMusic, and MuchMusic.Denise Donlon…

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Mark is Checking In with Swim Drink Fish Ambassadors about living with social distancing. Here, Dave Bidini answers Mark’s questions. Dave Bidini is one of the founding members of rock group the Rheostatics. He is the only Canadian to have been nominated for a Genie, Gemini, JUNO, and CBC’s ‘Canada Reads’. He has published eleven books including Tropic of Hockey, On a Cold Road, and Writing Gordon Lightfoot. Dave Bidini is Editor in Chief, President,…

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Mark is Checking In with Swim Drink Fish Ambassadors about living with social distancing. Here, Joseph Boyden answers Mark’s questions. Joseph Boyden is a Canadian writer, teacher, and public speaker. A member of the Order of Canada, his novels are published in 25 languages around the world and have won numerous national and international awards. For the past 25 years, Joseph has been part of Camp Onakawana in different capacities. He’s recently taken the role…

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