Josh Mattison (he/him) is an award winning podcast producer, engineer, host, writer and sound designer. He created, produced and edited the pop culture show The Revisitors and was a host on the comedy podcast Bad Or Not Bad. Josh also served as an associate producer of “A Daughter’s Voice” podcast for the Clyfford Still Art Museum. Last fall he released a podcast called The Order of Death, a limited podcast series exploring the murder of Denver talk radio host Alan Berg and the people and ideology responsible for his death. Denver Westword named it the best crime podcast in Denver in 2019. Currently he is the creator, editor, producer and host of Low Orbit, an audio magazine featuring voices, stories and sounds from the creative community.

The daughter of a refugee father from China and an immigrant mother from Jamaica, Jennifer Ho (she/her) is the director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also holds an appointment as Professor of Ethnic Studies. She is the president of the Association for Asian American Studies and the author of three scholarly monographs. In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality, leading workshops on anti-racism and how to talk about race in our current political climate. You can follow her on Twitter @drjenho.

Miranda Lash (she/her) is the Ellen Bruss Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and a board member for the Joan Mitchell Foundation. As Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum from 2014 to 2020, Lash orchestrated the museum’s installation of its first galleries exclusively dedicated to contemporary art in its new North Building and curated exhibitions including Yinka Shonibare CBE: The American Library; Keltie Ferris: *O*P*E*N*; BRUCE CONNER: FOREVER AND EVER; and Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art. From 2008 to 2014, Lash was the founding curator of modern and contemporary art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. There she curated over twenty exhibitions, including the large-scale traveling retrospective exhibition Mel Chin: Rematch and the exhibitions Rashaad Newsome: King of Arms; Camille Henrot: Cities of Ys; Swoon: Thalassa; Wayne Gonzales: Light to Dark, Dark to Light; and Parallel Universe: Quintron and Miss Pussycat Live at City Park. From 2017 to 2018 Lash was a member of the Artistic Director’s Council for the international triennial Prospect.4 in New Orleans. Lash has been a Clark Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, a consultant for Creative Capital, and a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Hassan Khan (he/him) is a human performance coach and founder of Limitless Humans. He works with elite performers across a number of different industries. He teaches people how to be better versions of themselves and maximise their potential, all based on science. His work is focused on helping individuals and companies build their capabilities to deliver greater results.

Hassan holds an Economics degree, a Law degree, a Research Masters degree in Innovation, and a Master of Business Administration degree, and he is an alumni and graduate of Harvard Business School and the University of Cambridge. In his spare time, he is a hobbyist magician, an avid reader, a keen cricket player and fan, and is writing a book about the power of belief and expectations.

Damon McLeese (he/him) is a speaker, trainer, activist, and community artist who works at the intersection of art and disability. Damon specializes in unlocking the creative power of people regardless of their backgrounds, beliefs, or experiences. Whether in a corporate setting or in the classroom, Damon’s collaborative approach bridges the gap between creativity and community. His projects force us to look at creativity, ability, and disability in very different ways. Examples include a photography project for people who are blind, a street art project for people with Alzheimer’s, and a program that commissions corporate art projects by people with disabilities.

Sofian Audry (they/them) is an artist, scholar, Professor of Interactive Media within the School of Media at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) and Co-Director of the Hexagram Network for Research-Creation in Art, Culture and Technology. Their work explores the behavior of hybrid agents at the frontier of art, artificial intelligence, and artificial life, through artworks and writings. Audry’s book Art in the Age of Machine Learning examines machine learning art and its practice in art and music (MIT Press, 2021).

Writer, curator, and artist Emilie Trice (she/her) specializes in conceptual contemporary art and new media. Her writing has been published by The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Artforum, Artnet, Dazed Digital, Southwest Contemporary and other media outlets. She is currently based in Colorado.

Leilani Lynch (she/her) is Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Her curatorial practice champions experimentation and critical engagement with the most urgent ideas circulating today. Working collaboratively with artists, her exhibitions and programs analyze the human experience and are inclusive of diverse and wide-ranging audiences. Prior to joining MCA Denver, Leilani most recently served as Curator at The Bass, Miami Beach.

Joshua Ware (he/him) is an artist and writer who was born in Cleveland, OH. He lives in Denver, CO. For more information, visit www.joshua-ware.com or IG: @joshua.ware.

Kalliopi Monoyios (she/her) is one small human on Planet Earth. She creates art about plastic and American consumerism, curates exhibits with environmental and science-forward themes, and writes about science and connection. Her greatest joy is contemplating other mysterious Earthlings evolution has produced: lichen, moss, cephalopods, and nudibranchs, to name just a few.