Ada is a queer, Black, mixed race adoptee from the South. Their background is rooted in research and community care work. After finishing undergrad and grad school, Ada worked as as a researcher, conducting affirming reproductive and mental health care research before entering the non-profit sphere. With training in conflict resolution and restorative justice, Ada approaches her work through a patient, supportive and community-based lens. Currently Ada is a co-owner of a worker owned cooperative called Samara Collective. In their free time, they enjoy hiking around California and being in the sunshine with their playful pup Bean.

Andy Cao is making the transition from the Los Angeles indie art world into the Northeastern small farms community.

Ashle is a licensed architect in the state of California where she has practiced for over a decade.  Additionally, she is the founder of Ashle Fauvre Architecture Inc. With a background in contemporary art history and social practice, Ashle is driven by design opportunities that bring phenomenal and impressive experiences of place into everyday life. Ashle is an exhibiting artist with design collectives including Bitter Party, the Metabolic Studio, the Queer Spa Network, and Movable Parts. She is active civically as a member of SPA, a citizen advocacy group promoting therapeutic hygiene services for the unhoused populations of Skid Row.

Carol Zou (b. 1988, Hepu, China) is a U.S. based community-engaged artist whose work engages themes of spatial justice, public pedagogy, and intercultural connection in multiracial neighborhoods. They engage durational, process-based collaborations with community contributors using mediums of craft, media arts, and public installation. As a counterpoint to their collaborative work, their writing and conceptual works interrogate questions of conflict and antagonism constitutive of the public sphere. Their style of multi-sector collaboration gestures to an interdisciplinary, liberatory future in which we are all hopefully a little more undisciplined.

LEO ALAS (b. 1995) is a contemporary multi-disciplinary artist exploring themes around care work and grief, through a Marxist-Feminist lens. Their practice moves through and along boundaries of intimacy, the body, and community sculpture. It takes on journeys into world building and Queer political imagination, exploring what is possible, what is potent, and what is beautiful, in an effort to find healing and joy in late-stage capitalism. LEO was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley. They are a co-founder of Queer Spa Network, a doula, and a bathing enthusiast.

Lindsey Morris is a queer visual artist, grief tender, urban planner, and designer residing on Tongva land, known as Los Angeles, California. Through diverse mediums, Lindsey unites ideas and people to collectively create visual art and resilient urban spaces. Vulnerability, active listening, and values-based collaboration guide their creative journey. Lindsey earned their BA in Social Work from University of Portland and a MURP degree in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA. Lindsey is certified as a Death Doula by Deathwives, and completed the Dignity Institute with the Thrivance Project, as well as the Urban Humanities Initiative at UCLA.

Mel Liu (they/them/theirs) grew up and is currently based in Tovaangar (Los Angeles Basin) and has spent a decade living in Lenapehoking (New York City). As a non-binary, queer Chinese Indonesian American cultural organizer they are committed to supporting grassroot movements led by communities that are advancing racial, gender, housing, economic, and disability justice. Mel comes from over three generations of musicians in their family and plays and performs as a sound healer through gamelan ensembles, DJ-ing for community events, and the queer and Southeast Asian diasporic band Mediterranean Silver. Mel studied art history, film, urban planning, and ethnomusicology at UCLA.

Xixi Edelsbrunner (b. 1993) is a multimedia artist and transplant to Los Angeles, California, where they work and live an abundantly domestic life. Their practice is rooted in disability and illness, as well as the resulting closeness with objects and their agency. Recent exhibitions include CSULB, Long Beach, 2022; Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles, 2023; Proxy Gallery, Los Angeles, 2024; California Center for the Arts, Escondido, 2024.