Mexican born illustrator, painter, creature tamer and Vespa lover living in the border town of El Paso, Texas.

Shandong-born painter, visual artist, and videographer who studied oil painting and copperplate engraving at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. She lives in an ancient stone home in the mountains of southwest China.

Climate justice activist and environmental scientist by training based in Mozambique. She works closely with Friends of the Earth and Justica Ambiental.

Musician and filmmaker from the isthmus region of Oaxaca, and a graduate of the Universidad de la Tierra.

Internationally renown artist, author, and educator, he is the founder and director of the performance troupe Virtual Vérité (2005-2017) and co-founder of Los Angeles-based Asco (1972-1985). He is Co-Director of the Photo/Media Program at California Institute of the Arts.

Award-winning Tamil-Canadian filmmaker and artist with roots in conflict journalism. Her video installations and mixed-media artwork have shown at Edinburgh Fringe, Colombo Art Biennale, Gallery 46 Whitechapel and most recently Cannes Court Metrage 2021. She is the recipient of the prestigious Chalmer's Fellowship.

Multimedia journalist based in New York City with a passion for post-Soviet geopolitics and Middle Eastern affairs. Born in the Republic of Georgia, she is ethnically Armenian and grew up in Russia.

Self-taught educator, facilitator and community activist who worked to further education initiatives throughout Myanmar before being forced to seek asylum abroad in the wake of the coup.

Photographer, editor, co‑founder and creative director at Adamdar/CA.

A Kenyan journalist and filmmaker with years of experience working at the intersection of media and advocacy.

Declan McLaughlin is a folk singer-songwriter musician, artist and political activist from Derry, Ireland. He has been involved in community based arts for over thirty years.

Editor, writer, publisher and co-founder of Interstitial Media whose work is primarily focused on conflict, culture, history and global affairs.

Documentary photographer whose work is focused on the cultures and conflicts of Central Asia. His images have been featured in The Diplomat, Meduza, DER SPIEGEL, Associated Press, France press Agency, The Guardian, Xinhua Agency, and many others.

Award-winning Honduran animator and journalist who received the 2017 Gabriel García Márquez award for Latin American Journalism for his graphic novella "El Hábito de la Mordaza" ("The Habit of Silence"). He is founder of Bilbao Media Lab and co-producer of the Bidi Bidi Media Lab.

Journalist, independent art curator, co‑founder and editor-in-chief at Adamdar/CA.

Beijing-born watercolor artist based in the Bay Area who plays piano with the San Francisco Ballet.

Award-winning photojournalist from Myanmar whose documentary photography has been recognized by the French Cultural Institute and National Geographic. Prior to the coup, his work focused primarily on human rights, community development and street art.

Director, producer, writer and disability rights activist best known for the Emmy Award winning documentary, When I Walk, which follows his diagnosis of primary progressive multiple sclerosis over seven years as he progresses from cane, to walker, to wheelchair. He is founder of the non-profit organization AXS Lab.

Illustrator, writer, and cartoonist for The New Yorker Magazine, and a graphic novelist. His new non-fiction graphic narrative is When I Grow Up - The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers. 

South Sudanese refugee producer, filmmaker, community activist and co-founder of Bidi Bidi Media Lab. Richard's work explores conflict and statelessness in northern Uganda’s refugee archipelago.

Community activist and educator currently living in a rebel stronghold where he oversees public health campaigns. He is co-founder of Nwe Oo Guru Lay Myar (“Masters of the Spring Revolution”) which educates and trains youth about democracy and civic engagement

Brooklyn-based experimental cellist, visual artist, NYC subway performer and found-object instrument maker. His drawings of young inmates on Rikers Island were featured in an exhibition at the Queens Museum titled "Dispatches from the Ghost Ship".

Writer, actor and musician originally from the West Country of England, in the county of Dorset. He divides his time between New Orleans, New York and the UK.

Multidisciplinary artist who uses painting, illustration, photography, film, movement as forms of expression and tools for advocacy and social justice.

Veteran of the Asian American Movement and of Asian American Studies at UC Berkeley who maintains a long term commitment to social justice resistance. He co-edited the anthology "Legacy For Liberation: Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America".

Cross-cultural and experiential educator from Khammouane Province, Laos. He is a history enthusiast, Buddhist practitioner and traveller.

Award winning documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Ojo de Agua Communicación which provides media training workshops for Indigenous communities in Oaxaca.

Musician and photographer from Laredo, TX whose work focuses on visual storytelling through documentary photography.

Artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. His work includes a community mural project at the Thomas O'Brien Academy of Science and Technology in Albany, NY and an award-winning animated film The Tale of the Goat (2004).

Visual artist, journalist, producer, and community organizer from Queens, NYC. He is co-founder of Zero Capital and Interstitial Media.

Community organizer based in Oaxaca who has participated in audiovisual and radio production and training for indigenous organizations and communities for more than 30 years.

Luke Catena is a documentary and narrative film director and cinematographer originally from Rockport, Massachusetts.

Mexican-American photographer born in El Paso, Texas and raised across the border of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Lozano’s socially-charged portraits speak to the dire conditions of immigrants, displaced peoples, refugees and asylum-seekers in borderlands around the world.

NYC-based interdisciplinary artist/choreographer and co-founder of Site-Specific Dances. His work has been presented at Carnegie Hall, San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Interlochen. He holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Michigan and was honored with their alumni “Emerging Artist” Award.

徐爽 is a visual storyteller of ancient and contemporary cultural traditions. She explores portraiture and landscape photography in poetic ways. From 2019-2020, she was an ArtsEverywhere Artist-in-Residence.

Formerly, a Moscow based artist and activist, editor for the Chto Delat? newspaper, editorial board member of Moscow Art Magazine (2011), co-founder of the Learning Film Group and May Congress of Creative Workers, and member of the Arkady Kots band.