Pallavi Somusetty (she/her/hers) is a documentary director and cinematographer based on Ohlone land (Oakland, CA). She finds meaning in creating doc portraits that center BIPOC voices in the hope that we feel fully seen in the complexities of our identities and journeys, and that meaningful impact can result. Pallavi is currently directing and lensing her first documentary feature(s) and incubating a narrative feature. She is a 2022 Center for Asian American Media Fellow, a 2022 participant of Athena’s Works in Progress Pitch Forum, and a former Re-Take Oakland film fellow. For the past three years, Pallavi has served as a producer for A-Doc’s Storytelling Initiatives and most recently as Lead Series Producer for an AAPI doc series in collaboration with WORLD Channel and CAAM. She is a proud member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia, serves on A-Doc's Leadership Team, and seeks other ways to give back to the doc community. Pallavi is also a graduate of Berkeley J-School's doc program, a climber, a doula, and a mother.

Katie Mansfield is a Vietnamese American poet originally from San Antonio, Texas but now living in the Bay. In her work, she seeks to make all her humor heartfelt so that it approaches a place of healing, and she is interested in, as Chen Chen once wrote in a tweet, “the powers of sweetness.”

mirrored fatality remembers wholeness from dismembered flesh and mutates as cross pollinating perennial terratoids. mirrored fatality intertwines glitch rage webs with corroded resonance and regenerat

Michelle Cai grew up in Northern Illinois and is currently based in the Bay Area. Through organic materials, drawing, and sound, they explore the histories and identities that sediment in the relationship between their body, the land and paths of migration they inhabit, and the materials and processes of their practice. This summer, Michelle is working with clay and fire as a resident at Cobb Mountain Art & Ecology.

Safa Doost is an Afghan-American artist residing in Oakland, CA. She has a background in anatomy/physiology, with a Master's in Prosthetics and Orthotics. The hands skills frequently used in her field of work, such creating rehabilitative body braces & prostheses, has expanded into her mixed-media artwork. She draws inspiration from the intricacies of human anatomy, Afghan folklore, geology, and cultural parallels to create work that pays homage to the important facets in her life.