Mary Jirmanus Saba is a geographer who uses film and other media to explore unknown histories of the Arab world and beyond. Her feature debut A Feeling Greater Than Love won the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival Forum. Her new collaborative films work at the intersection of labor politics, feminism and finance capital, aspiring to imagine and create new political horizons.

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Terry Marshall is a first generation American activist, artist, cultural producer, trickster, and creative entrepreneur. Born in Boston to immigrant parents from Barbados, Terry is committed to harnessing creativity and radical imagination of diverse black communities for Black Liberation. His creative practice involves using world-building and Pan-Afrofuturism to create transformative experiences of liberation. As a creative entrepreneur and a member of the Intelligent Mischief creative studio, Terry develops innovative cultural projects that shift culture. As a third culture creative his projects amplify perspectives and integrate vision in unique ways. Terry’s work also involves bringing creativity and design to social justice organizing through visioning workshops, festivals, and speaking engagements. Terry is also a former Laundromat Project Fellow.

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Demita Frazier, J.D., is an activist, independent scholar, thought leader, writer and educator. She is a co-founder of the Combahee River Collective, a radical Black feminist organization active in Boston from 1975 to 1981, and a co-author of the Combahee River Collective Statement, a foundational Black feminist primer. She received her Juris Doctorate from Northeastern University School of Law in 1986. She remains fully committed to the destruction of the illusion and effects of white supremacy, misogyny, and other forms of oppression, and to the creation of a democratic socialist society informed by equity, radical compassion and committed to the realization of a sustainable, flourishing world. A native of Chicago, she is a proud Black child of the Black South Side.

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Tricia Wang is a tech ethnographer obsessed with designing equity into systems. Part data geek, part designer, part researcher, and part community organizer, her belief that technology must serve humanity is the thread across her work in the private sector. She is the co-founder of Sudden Compass, a consulting firm that redesigns the way companies leverage data to serve their customers. Her tech career started with the early days of texting and mobile phones to the emergence of Web 1.0, then Web 2.0, and now the Web 3.0 stack with a focus on the social impact of crypto and blockchain enabling technologies. Her focus on tech has always been in adoption amongst marginalized communities from the US to China to South America. She optimizes her life to be spent dancing, eating, hanging with her dog Elle, and her grandma. Follow her on twitter or instagram @triciawang.

Arianne Edmonds is 5th generation Angeleno, archivist, civic leader and founder of the J.L. Edmonds Project, an initiative dedicated to preserving the history and culture of the Black American West. Ms. Edmonds has curated and presented her research on African American history, collective memory and legacy in cultural institutions around the country. Over the last decade she's designed public programming and built civic media campaigns for government agencies, nonprofits and numerous fortune 500 companies. She’s currently a Civic Media fellow at USC Annenberg and a newly appointed Commissioner of the Los Angeles Public Library.

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Dr. Karilyn Crockett’s career mission is to continue to work at the nexus of education, economic development and urban revitalization. Her research focuses on large-scale land use changes in twentieth century American cities and examines the social and geographic implications of structural poverty. Her book "People before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making" investigates a 1960s era grassroots movement to halt urban extension of the U.S. interstate highway system and the geographic and political changes in Boston that resulted. Karilyn was the co-founder of Multicultural Youth Tour of What's Now (MYTOWN). MYTOWN hired public high school students to research their local and family histories to produce youth-led walking tours for sale to public audiences. During its nearly 15 years of operation, MYTOWN created jobs for more than 300 low and moderate-income teenagers, who in turn led public walking tours for more than 14,000 visitors and residents.

Karilyn holds a PhD from the American Studies program at Yale University, a Master of Science in Geography from the London School of Economics, and a Master of Arts and Religion from Yale Divinity School. Karilyn recently served as the City of Boston’s first Chief Equity Officer, following four years of service with the Mayor's Office of Economic Development as the Director of Economic Policy & Research and the Director of Small Business Development for the City of Boston. She is an Assistant Professor in MIT's Department of Urban Studies & Planning.