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Jeff Chang is a writer, host, and a cultural organizer. His book, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, was named one of the best U.S. nonfiction books of the last quarter century. He has also written the award-winning books,  Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America, and We Gon' Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation. His bylines have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Guardian, and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as Slate, Mother Jones, The Nation, n+1, and The Believer. He has been a Lucas Artist Fellow and has received the American Book Award, the Asian American Literary Award, and the USA Ford Fellowship in Literature. He is the host of the Signal award-winning podcast on artists and ideas, Edge of Reason, and of Notes From the Edge, produced by KALW Public Media.

Lysley Tenorio is the author of the story collection Monstress, named a book of the year by The San Francisco Chronicle, and the novel The Son of Good Fortune, winner of the New American Voices Award. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Manoa, and Zoetrope: All-Story, and have been adapted the for the stage in San Francisco and New York City. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Born in the Philippines and raised in California, he is an Associate Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Nguyên Khôi Nguyễn is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. He is the cartoonist of(http://smithsonianapa.org/lit/bittersweet/)the Ignatz nominated comic series, The Gulf. Nguyên’s work has been featured in The New Yorker, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and Medium. He is the vocalist/pianist of the jazz trio, Superior Cling, and creator of Mom’s Viet Kitchen, a cooking website that shares family recipes and the stories behind them. Nguyên recently completed “In Our Own Time,” a six-part webcomic for McSweeney’s that charts the ups and downs of his and his wife’s fertility journey. He has earned a Rubys Artist Grant and Maryland State Arts Council award. He previously served as the senior video producer/editor at Science Magazine. As a digital media lecturer at Loyola University Maryland, Nguyên teaches video, graphics, animation, comics, and more.

Chung-Wei Huang is an award-winning filmmaker from a small town in Taiwan, now calls Baltimore her home. Chung-Wei's artistic pursuits encompass narrative films and dance for the camera video. She is drawn to ordinary lives and the beauty inherent in everyday moments. She wants to interweave elements of social commentary into her work and navigate the complex intersections of personal struggles, creating narratives that offer a nuanced perspective. Her journey in filmmaking includes the premiere of her thesis film, "Midnight Carnival" (2018), at the Asian American International Film Festival, followed by selections in film festivals nationwide. The success continued with her second narrative short film, "Buck" (2021), debuting at the LA Shorts International Film Festival. Recognized for her work, Chung-Wei received the Rubys Artist Grant to produce the dance for the camera video titled "Days without End." Her film, "Squeegee Boy," was supported by the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund and is currently in film festival circuits.