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Tina Calderon

Tina Calderon is of Gabrielino Tongva, Chumash, Mexican and Yoeme descent. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, sister, niece and auntie to many. After retiring from a Career as Operations Manager in the Manufacturing Industry Tina began Homeschooling her Grandson and devoting time to her culture and language. Tina is currently on the Tongva Language Committee and she is a student learning the Šmuwič dialog of Chumash. She also serves on the Parent Advisory Council (PAC) for the Fernandeño Tataviam Tribe’s Education and Cultural Learning Department. Tina is also a singer who enjoys creative writing and composing poems and songs. She is the culture bearer for her family, as well as a traditional dancer and storyteller who strongly believes in honoring her ancestors by sharing their history and educating others about their tribal relevance.

Gopal Dayaneni

Gopal Dayaneni is a member of the staff collective at the Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project. He is an active trainer with and serves on the boards of The Ruckus Society and the Center for Story-based Strategy. He also serves on the advisory boards of the International Accountability Project and the Catalyst Project. Gopal has been active in many people-powered direct action movements, including the Global Justice/Anti-Globalization Movement, Direct Action to Stop the War, Mobilization for Climate Justice, Take Back the Land, and Occupy.

Seb Choe

Seb has spent much of the past 4 years dedicated to Friends of Gadsden Creek (FOGC), the community-led environmental justice campaign opposing the destruction of Gadsden Creek (South Carolina) and the continued patterns of injustice inflicted upon Gadsden Green, a formerly racially-segregated, Black public housing community. FOGC looks the machines of power - city government, real estate developers and the law - in the eye, to demand the revitalization of Gadsden Creek and her surrounding wetlands, as a first step in a larger plan that repairs the social, environmental, and economic harm that has been inflicted upon the Gadsden Green community. In 2021, FOGC incorporated as a non-profit organization to file a lawsuit in opposition to the destruction of the creek, which is ongoing today.

Edith Morales

Edith Morales is a Mexican artist born in 1968 in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Her work is characterized by the use of systematization and data collection to challenge the systemic issues of memory and evidence, as well as to confront the economic policies of capitalism and the inherent violence within them. Morales questions the fiscal architecture, regulations, and the invisibility of the individual in the face of the system, and gives new meanings to symbols used by the state.

In her work, she focuses on themes such as food sovereignty, territory, biodiversity of native corn species, and the dangers they face due to dismantling and extractivism policies. Her art reflects the diversions of power in the system, shedding light on the issues of disappearances and the exploitation of resources. Her work also brings attention to the unlocatable evidence and challenges the way history is constructed and perceived.

Patrick Farmer

Patrick Farmer is the manager of the Sonic Art Research Unit and a curator of the audiograft festival. Farmer has published several books and written compositions for, among others, the Extradition Series and Set Ensemble. A monaural artist, he is part of an AHRC funded project, Tinnitus, Auditory Knowledge and the Arts, and has recently had essays published online by Zeno Press, Socrates on the Beach, Map, and Futch Press.

Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs

Through an interdisciplinary practice that incorporates sound, sculpture, scent, and site-specific collective performance, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs creates new myths and their paraphernalia - hymns, relics, costumes, instruments, rites and rituals - for an alternate past, and still-possible future.

Riggs is known for creating experimental opera and vocal performances that collapse the boundaries between audience and performers including compost opera All Again/Todo de Nuevo (CURRENT LA Public Works Biennial, w/ choreographer Annie Gimas); A Journey That Wasn’t: Empire Folds (The Broad Museum); Sky Score (The Getty Center); The Portal: Mothers Choir (Hammer Museum, w/ Jagangormarsh); and GORGON (REDCAT Theater). She is the creator of the site-responsive performance ensemble, Song of Eurydice; and the founder of Community Chorus, a drop-in, on-call, protest chorus which she leads with conductor Tany Ling. Riggs has also presented work at the SFMOMA, deYoung Museum, Anchorage Museum, Portland Art Museum, Printed Matter, Bangkok University, and Berkeley Art Museum. She has been featured in NYT Magazine, LA Times, Artforum.com, Frieze.com, X-TRA, and Rookie Magazine.