veto monteiro (they/them) is an artist and cultural worker whose practice investigates the materiality of language through papermaking, sculpture, and textual intervention. Their citational research explores how meaning can exist beyond conventional language structures while interrogating inherited systems of fluency. Born in Belém do Pará, Brazil and raised between Recife and Turtle Island, they hold a BFA from Simon Fraser University. With over a decade of experience working with non-profits and grassroots organizing, their community practice prioritizes accessible, care-centred, and joyful approaches to engaging with art and cultural spaces. veto currently serves as Artistic Engagement Director at WePress Community Arts Space Society and is likely passionate about whichever hobby they’re currently cycling through. 

Michelle Sound (she/her) is a Cree and Métis artist and mother. She is a member of Wapsewsipi Swan River First Nation in Treaty 8 Territory. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts, and a Master of Applied Arts from Emily Carr University Art + Design. Michelle Sound’s work explores personal and familial narratives with a consideration of Indigenous artistic processes. Sound has been longlisted for the Lind Photography Prize(2024) and the Sobey Art Award(2025)

Erin F. Chan (she/her) is a disabled publishing professional, freelance graphic designer and editor, and hobbyist studio potter. She currently resides in the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Selina Crammond (she/her) is a film curator and cultural worker based in Vancouver on the unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories.

Karrmen Crey is Stó:lō and a member of the Cheam First Nation. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, where her research focuses on Indigenous media and production cultures. Her book manuscript, Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada (2024) examines the political, cultural, and technological conditions undergirding the proliferation of Indigenous media in Canada after 1990. Her current work examines Indigenous film festivals, Indigenous virtual reality and augmented reality, and Indigenous popular culture.

Alanna Irene Edwards is an artist, educator, and curator of Mi’gmaq (member of Listuguj) and settler descent currently occupying unceded Coast Salish territory home to the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɁɬ nations. She has a BA in Political Science and Women’s Studies from SFU, a diploma in Fine Arts from Langara College, and a BFA with distinction from KPU. Currently, she is undertaking her Master’s in Museum Education at UBC.

Noor A. Ghazal is a Lebanese Canadian interdisciplinary artist and event and community organizer based in the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Much of Noor’s work focuses on bridging communities from the MENA/SWANA region as well as showcasing, archiving and uplifting art, talent and knowledge from the region. Noor’s artistic practice and research focuses on Arabfuturism and agency-building for Arabs back home and in the diaspora, mainly working with cyanotype, textiles, and video art.

Dr. Erique Zhang (they/she) is Assistant Professor of Digital Publics and Promotional Cultures in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Their research examines how images of trans women and femmes of color circulate in the fashion, beauty, and entertainment industries and what these images communicate about race, gender, and trans identity. Their first monograph, in progress, proposes a trans femme of color critique of media that understands trans womanhood as imbricated with social processes of racialization and colonization.

Erique is a co-founder of the Center for Applied Transgender Studies, as well as an affiliate of the Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies and a faculty member of the Digital Democracies Institute.