Padma Dorje Maitland is an Assistant Professor at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and co-curator of After Hope.
Usha Iyer is Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies, at Stanford University. She is the author of Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema and is now working on a book project on Indian cinema and the Caribbean.
TT Takemoto is Dean of Humanities and Sciences at California College of the Arts and an artist, filmmaker, and scholar exploring hidden dimensions of same-sex intimacy and gender non-conformity in Asian and Asian American history. Takemoto conjures up immersive queer historical fantasies by manipulating found footage and engaging with tactile dimensions of the archive.
Kathy Zarur is Associate Professor of Art History at Skyline College and an independent curator based in San Francisco.
