Cheng-Chai Chiang is a PhD Candidate in English and Critical Theory and currently serves as Assistant Pedagogy Coordinator in the English department at UC Berkeley.
Keziah Aurin is a fourth-year undergraduate student at UC Berkeley studying sociology. They draw inspiration for their work upon their experience immigrating from the Philippines in their teenage years, navigating the “in-between” of the homeland and the diaspora.
Ryan Ikeda has worked in public education for the better part of two decades. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley and the Pedagogy Coordinator for the Creative Discovery Fellows program at the American Cultures Center.
Lauren Kroiz, Associate Professor in the History of Art Department and faculty director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Cultivating Citizens: The Work of Art in the New Deal Era (2018) and Creative Composites: Modernism, Race, and the Stieglitz Circle (2012).
Xiaoyu Xia is a PhD Candidate in East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. She is interested in typography, book design, and modern Chinese literature and media.
Shirl Yang is a Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago, where she received her PhD in English in 2021. Her work explores the entanglements of contemporary affective and economic life, focusing on ways of getting by in the wake of systemic stagnation and financialization that has characterized the US economy since 1970.
