Janani Balasubramanian is an artist and researcher working at the intersections of contemporary art and science. Janani is currently artist-in-residence in the brown dwarf astrophysics group at the American Museum of Natural History; Pioneer Works Narrative Arts Fellow; visiting artist at Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts; resident artist with the Stanford Compression Forum; Pew Foundation grantee through the Academy of Natural Sciences; inaugural Collider fellow at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; and member of the Guild of Future Architects.

Maia Chao is an interdisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia. She is co-creator of social practice work, Look at Art. Get Paid. She has shown at The Shed, Cuchifritos, The New School, Tufts University, Brown University, and RISD Museum; and given talks at ICA Philadelphia, Queens Museum, and MFA Boston. She was recently an artist in residence at Haverford College and Pioneer Works. Chao is faculty in the Sculpture Department at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

Tina-Hanaé Miller is a multimedia artist and composer. She is a 2020 NYFA Women's Fund grant recipient, and was in residence at Theater Mitu, Sundance Labs, and The Public Theater. As a musician, she has performed at the Brooklyn Museum, The Echo, The Imperial, U Street Music Hall, The Sinclair, and the Music Hall of Williamsburg, among others. More recently, as Hanaé, she collaborated with artist Umico Niwa on a music video for her solo debut, All Of This, on ecological disaster and grief.

Aditya Balasubramanian, a sophomore at the Paul Allen School of computing at the University of Washington, is passionate about using his tech skills for social good. A member of the Impact++, an organization at his school that connects tech students with endeavors in areas of health and accessibility, Aditya is now focusing on exploring the potential of linguistics and Natural Language Processing at the forefront of the social good space.

Maryam Gunja is Muslim femme agitator and poet living in Los Angeles. Her writing preoccupations include India/Pak partition era diaspora, caste class struggle, and assorted domestic frivolity (i.e. identity politics, anti-racism culture, white morality, etc.) To pay rent, she dons a convincing PMC (professional managerial class) look and runs user research and product strategy for idealist.org."