Johnny Huy Nguyen is a second generation Vietnamese / American multidisciplinary dance artist based in Yelamu aka San Francisco. His work has been presented by the United States of Asian America Festival and SOMArts. His most recent solo work, Minority Without A Model, premiered in June 2021. He has appeared in the works of Lenora Lee Dance, Embodiment Project, Kularts, and James Graham Dance Theatre. With a multifaceted movement practice integrating street dance styles, contemporary dance, and martial arts, his vision is to activate dialogue, action, and collective healing through expressions of the body that are raw, vulnerable, and honest.

Sophie Brion Neely is an emerging playwright, interdisciplinary researcher, and justice-centered educator from Southern California. Since graduating with a BA in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration from Yale University, where she served as the editor-in-chief of the Elm City Echo (an advocacy-oriented literary magazine that develops the work of unhoused community members), She has been a research fellow at UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute while writing a show, “Los Pobladores,” about the multiethnic founding of Los Angeles.

LeeAnn Perry is a scientist, musician, and writer from West Virginia, currently based in Oakland. As Verdun 1916, she has performed at festivals, galleries, campouts, warehouses, bars, coffee shops, and rituals in the Bay Area and beyond. As a curator and promoter, she crafts events and experiences to stimulate creativity, community, and connection.

Sarah Matsui is a writer from Honolulu. Her work has been featured in NPR Code Switch, Jacobin Magazine, and Rethinking Schools Magazine’s “Our Picks for Books for Social Justice Teaching: Policy.” She is the recipient of awards/fellowships from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Tin House, Lighthouse, Theatre Bay Area, The Munro Review, and Kearny Street Workshop. She is currently working on a Taiwanese and Japanese American coming-of-age story titled, “Hello, Boar—You Must Be Hungry.”