Ellenor Riley-Condit (she/her) works at the intersection of performance making and liberatory praxis. As a member of The Syndicate, she creates new plays, performances, and events by women, queer, and trans people. Her ongoing project "A Day's Work" imagines anti-capitalist structures for creative practice by giving individual artists $200 to work on whatever they want for one day, no strings attached. She is a member of Education for Racial Equity's 2023 cohort in Somatic Abolitionism, which works to grow white people's capacity to fight white body supremacy. She teaches at Vassar College's Powerhouse Theater Training Program and was born and raised in Washington, DC. BA: University of Chicago. MFA: Goddard College.

Joelle Firzli is an independent fashion researcher, curator and instructor with a global outlook on fashion and a first-hand knowledge of the industry, based in Washington DC. Her research focuses on 20th and 21st Century Fashion from Africa and the MENA region. She holds a MA in Fashion Studies from Parsons with a deep and varied knowledge of fashion history and theory. Her interests include global visual culture, cultural sustainability, cultural identity, spirituality, post-colonialism and globalization. Joelle is also the co-founder of Tribute Collective, a responsible retail and multi-disciplinary platform, focused on elevating visibility for ethical fashion and design.

Lailan Sandra Huen is a 4th generation Oaklander working to build people power through leadership development, civic engagement, and grassroots coalition-building. She is a member of the Oakland Chinatown Coalition, leading campaigns to secure Community Benefits Agreements with developers and advocating for city-wide policies to ensure equitable development. She authored the "Our Neighborhoods" report which documented best practices from across the country to protect cultural districts for the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development. With the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, she developed an Organizing Toolkit for Equitable Development in Oakland, making the planning process more transparent and accessible for neighborhood advocates.

Ryan Patterson is an artist and arts administrator who lives with his wife Rachel and their two sons in Baltimore’s Better Waverly neighborhood. Ryan moved to Baltimore from South Florida in 2002 to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art (GSS ‘06). Ryan initiated and collaborated on a number of arts-based public programs and social events including Big Draw in the Dell, Evergreen Commons, and Camp Camp. In 2013 he was offered a Community Artist in Residency at the Kentucky School of Art where he and students organized the Smoke Town Social Club project and exhibition. As an arts administrator, he organized programming and exhibitions for the Parks & People Foundation from 2007-2010 and previously served the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts as Public Art Program Manager from 2013-2019. In his personal life, he loves to ride bikes, walk in the woods, and read and draw comics with his family.