Advisory Board Members:

Valarie Merced is a sexologist, doula, and creator of Precipice Magazine, a psychological exploration of sex, desire, and love. She focuses her efforts on healing and centering marginalized communities through her events, publication, and coaching work. As a descendant of the Taino peoples, she is familiar with the active erasure of one's culture and fights to improve visibility and to uplift untold stories. 

Miguel Angel Guzmán is a dancer and actor born in Mexico where he received multiple grants from the National Council for Culture and Arts. Miguel’s work has been presented nationally and internationally in cities such as New York, Chicago, Charlottesville, Austin, Mexico, Montreal, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, London, Florence, Stockholm, Dublin and Tel Aviv. In New York his most recent performances include venues such as Rockefeller Center, National Sawdust, The New Museum for Contemporary Art, and The Museum of Modern Art.

Luke Berry is a NYC based creative interested in psychology, philosophy, and linguistics. He has a background in fine art and contemplative psychology. He is most interested in how invisible structures manifest in an individual and in a society.

Ventiko is a critically-acclaimed conceptual artist working in photography, performative experiences & social practice. Her work focuses on the (re)construction of moments not in time but in thought to express social positions on sexuality, persona & the state of the modern woman.Ventiko’s works have been exhibited and experienced internationally at art fairs (PULSE, Select, Korean International Art Fair, Sluice, Photo LA), Galleries (US, Europe, Dominican Republic, Korea), Institutions (Tate Modern, MOMA) and in the public sphere through interventions (US, UK, Serbia, Dominican Republic, and Italy). She has worked with over 200+ artists curating and facilitating happenings, exhibitions, lectures and residencies on their behalf.

Ravi- born in India, raised in the Bay, living in San Francisco, Ravi is the Founder of the daily prompt social service, Kindred, hosts Awaken, a podcast on Buddhism, Social Justice, and Tech, and runs a Product Management consultancy When not being self-referential in a bio, you can find him practicing meditation, running or biking around SF, or pursuing one of too many hobbies (current favorite: learning how to spin fire poi). He's been practicing in the Zen tradition for a decade and is a formal training student in the Mountains and Rivers Order Zen lineage.

Thiago Marques a native Brazilian from New York is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. His research interests are in stratification and mobility as they pertain to neighborhoods and communities, housing markets, and property relations. He completed his undergraduate degree in Applied Psychology at New York University.  Thiago has worked in nonprofit agencies that provides housing and social services to homeless, runaway, and at-risk youth.

---

Audio Engineer for "A Call for Justice" Soundscape

Mario Schöning was born in 1988 in Hamburg/Germany.
Graduated from the University of Fine Arts Hamburg in 2019 and works as a freelance music composer, sound designer and audio editor for a variety of film, commercial and art productions. Mario is an active member and write and produce songs in several band projects.

Website​: www.ma-schoening.com

Designer for "A Call for Justice" Zine

Michael Haley is a writer, musician, and filmmaker, as well as co-founder of Lost Lox Publishing. Michael was the designer of The CSCProject's Zine

Website: michael@lostfoxpublishing.com.