Mariyam Johnston

Mariyam Johnston is the community manager for Toronto Defiant, a professional esports organization owned by OverActive Media Group. In this role, they are responsible for growing and managing all Toronto Defiant social media channels, including Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Discord, Twitch, Facebook, and TikTok. Mariyam also produces and posts content on a daily basis, while remaining on brand. Prior to their current role, Mariyam worked as a marketing coordinator, store manager, assistant store manager, and sales associate for EB Games Canada for six years and six months. In these roles, they were responsible for coordinating shipments of marketing materials to stores, maintaining ship logs, fulfilling store requests for marketing needs, and effectively managing print advertising programs.

Mariyam Johnston has a Sheridan College Diploma in Business Administration - Marketing from 2018 to 2021. Mariyam was 2nd place in the Ontario Colleges' Marketing Competition 2019 in the Prospect Pitching Event and Sheridan Business Communication Case Competition 2020 in the Advanced Division. Mariyam also has a High School Diploma in Design and Visual Communications, General from Meadowvale Secondary School from 2008 to 2012. Mariyam has taken Entrepreneurship Foundations, Freelancing Foundations, Develop Critical-Thinking, Decision-Making, and Problem-Solving Skills, Become a Marketing Specialist, Growth Hacking Foundations, Ideation for Marketers, Learning to Write Marketing Copy, Marketing Foundations: Consumer Behavior, and Marketing Foundations: Integrated Marketing Strategies from LinkedIn.

The team of Mariyam Johnston, Community Manager, Toronto Defiant, is responsible for managing the community and social media accounts for the Toronto Defiant, an Overwatch League team. The team also manages the accounts for the MAD Lions (EN) and the Toronto Ultra.