David O. Alekhuogie (American, b. 1986) centers his multi-disciplinary practice in photography to investigate memory, technology, media, and power. Alekhuogie attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and minored in ethnomusicology, before he moved to art-making. He holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2013) and an MFA in photography from Yale University (2015). In addition to teaching and curating, he has had solo exhibitions at the Chicago Artist Coalition (2016), Company Gallery (New York, 2019), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (2019), and Skibum MacArthur (Los Angeles, 2017). Alekhougie has participated in group shows at Edward Cella Art and Architecture (Los Angeles, 2019), Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco, 2015), The High Museum (Atlanta, 2017), and Regen Projects (Los Angeles, 2015).

Saretta Morgan is a poet and author of the chapbooks Feeling Upon Arrival (Ugly Duckling, 2018) and room for a counter interior (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2017), and the forthcoming poetry collection Alt-Nature (Coffee House Press, 2024). Her work engages the ecologies and forms of connectivity that manifest in the shadows of militarization, incarceration, and U.S. imperialism. She has received support from the Jerome Foundation, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and elsewhere. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at POWERHOUSE, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, and Oak Spring Garden Foundation. 

Venus Williams With 7 Grand Slam titles, 5 Wimbledon championships and 4 Olympic gold medals, tennis champion Venus Williams is arguably one of the most accomplished and inspiring women in the history of sports. Beginning her rise to the top at the age of 14, Venus quickly took the world of tennis by storm, rising to the top-ranked position, breaking countless records, and winning numerous championships.

Kathryn Yusoff is a Reader in Human Geography in the School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London. She received her PhD in Geography from Royal Holloway University of London. Her research interests include critical theory and environmental change, feminist philosophy, geologic practices, and politics of planetary states. She has published widely in journals such as Theory, Culture and Society, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Space and Culture, Cultural Geographies, PhiloSOPHIA, Science and Culture, Radical Philosophy, as well as regular contributions to arts publications and online platforms. She is the author of A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race (Duke University Press, 2024).