Xtina Webb is a Queer Intersectional Feminist who operates a design practice focused on cultural, non-profit clients in Los Angeles, California. This aligns with her teaching practice at Otis College of Art and Design and other SoCal universities. Xtina’s design research investigates complicated socio-political conditions in virtual and public spaces, looking at the language and visual devices that form them. This includes “Queering” space and place-making along with exploring participation and collaboration. Xtina’s local community building includes the co-creation of the Queer/ QBIPOC Foreground Collective and The 5th Pocket dinner/entertainment soireé focused on connecting creative entrepreneurs in playful engaging ways, Director of the AIGA-LA DEI Committee and related events, creating the Criticality of Queer Craft panel for the LA Design Festival, event organizing for RISD Alumni Club of Los Angeles and currently serving on the Board of Feminist Center for Creative Work. Visit christinawebb.org.

Yara is a designer working at the intersection of architecture pedagogy, transmedia, and immersive technologies. She is the creative director of Folly Feast Lab co-founded with Viviane El Kmati based in Los Angeles, California. Through worldbuilding and storytelling they design immersive and interactive experiences, applications, software, design tools and games around queer identity, sustainability, and technology. Yara and Viviane are committed with Folly Feast Lab to designing fantastic experiences that are as aesthetically engaging as they are technologically performing. Their XR work has been exhibited internationally. Yara is also a design faculty at UCLA in the school of Arts and Architecture and since she moved to LA she has been invested in fostering and creating community. Visit yarafeghali.com.