Jessica Angima is a Kenyan-American organizer and social practice artist. In a constant state of process, she facilitates intimate community through the exploration of art, ecology, and contemplative practice. Her work focuses on self-formation; using writing, photography, and dharma to explore the effects of specific places, environments, and objects on personal and collective awakening. With 400+ hours of meditation instruction training, she leads community-engaged art and meditation workshops throughout New York City. She is a 2025 Bandung Resident and holds an MA in Arts Politics from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Amanda Chen is a writer and artist from California living in New York. Her work broadly explores how individual and collective memory formation is shaped by representations and engagements with digital and embodied public space. Her essays, criticism, and fiction appear in BOMB, the Brooklyn Rail, Catapult, Dirt, the Drift, Harvard Review, MUBI Notebook, the New Republic, and elsewhere in print and online. Previously, she was a fellow at Dia Art Foundation and a member of the Critics Academy at the 62nd New York Film Festival.

Olivia Fu is a writer, organizer, and aspiring urban planner from San Clemente, California. Now based in Brooklyn, she supports New York’s grassroots organizing ecosystem as North Star Fund’s Youth Organizing Associate. She also works as a seasonal figure skating instructor in Prospect Park, where she spends a lot of time thinking about power, parks, and public spaces. She’s most interested in telling stories about cities that connect the rhythms of everyday urban life to their vast and complex histories—and that her friends would find interesting enough to send in the group chat. She received a BA with Honors in Urban Studies and a minor in Creative Writing from Stanford University.

Saritha Ramakrishnais a writer, researcher, and urban planner based in Brooklyn, NY, originally from Phoenix, Arizona. Criticism, reporting and fiction of hers has appeared in The New Republic, The Baffler, Orion Magazine, Literary Hub, Urban Omnibus, and The New Orleans Review. As a writer, she considers our 21st-century economy, the obligations between people and their institutions, and the interplay of landscape and ideology.

Enrique Aureng Silva is an architect, editor, and writer whose work spans architectural history, storytelling, literature, and translation. He is drawn to unofficial, sideways modes of preservation, exploring how historic narratives shape the present and future of our built environment. He lives in Brooklyn, though his heart often wanders to Coyoacán.

Lucas Vaqueiro is a Brazilian civic designer, educator, and researcher based in Queens. Informed by his experience working with cities across the Americas, from New York to São Paulo and Montreal to Montevideo, Lucas is interested in exploring how government bureaucracy can afford wonder. His practice includes installations, publications, and community engagement that reframe bureaucracy as civic infrastructure worth reimagining—and celebrating. His work has been featured in Milan Design Week and the Creative Bureaucracy Festival.

Elizabeth Greenspan is a writer based in Philadelphia. Her articles and reviews about cities and urban life have appeared in The Believer, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Places Journal, among other outlets. She received a 2024 Silvers Grant for her forthcoming book, a cultural history of Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, cities and the 1970s, to be published by WW Norton (US) and Pushkin Press (UK). She is the author of Battle for Ground Zero, about the politics of commerce and commemoration at the World Trade Center site, and she has a PhD in anthropology and urban studies from the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches urban studies and creative writing.