SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a leatherdyke, new media artist, and poet. Known for using sound, video, and performance, HOLLOWAY shapes the rhetorics of technology and sexuality into tools for exposing structures of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like Performance Space New York, The New Museum, The Kitchen, The Time-Based Art Festival at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. For over a decade she has lead small groups through kink and sexuality education in the Chicagoland area and online, publishing limited editions on leather life and consensual sex along the way.

Gabriella Garcia is a techno-feminist researcher. Her work explores the protection of radical self-expression, networked subcultures, and cybernetic intimacy. As co-founder and director of @DecodingStigma, she works toward prioritizing sexual autonomy as a necessary ethics question for futurists. This is an extension of her thesis research and postdoctoral fellowship at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, which explored how whorephobia becomes encoded in tech design, despite the co-constitutive relationship between sexual labor and the development of digital media. Her work has been presented Institute for Public Knowledge (NYU), Design & Technology Cloud Salon (Parsons), Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard), Hacking//Hustling, and Decriminalized Future's Ladies of the Night School. She sits on the community advisory board for the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (stopspying.org).

Elizabeth Perez is a mother, multi-disciplinary designer and educator interested in the confluence of motherhood, world-building, and the possibilities of design. She is currently a Part Time Faculty Member at Parsons School of Design and completing a postdoctoral fellowship at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program where she earned her master’s. Elizabeth lives and loves in Brooklyn, NY with her son.

Daemonum X is a femme leatherdyke and lifestyle Dominant. She is a polyamory and BDSM coach offering strategies for successful relationships. She is the founder and Editrix of FIST, an anthology zine for leatherdykes, as well as Linked, A Polyamory Zine. More of her words on BDSM and power exchange can be found in Them, Autostraddle, and her newsletter. Daemonum X lives in Brooklyn with her two dogs.

Zainab Aliyu ("Zai") is an artist and cultural worker whose work is about the material affect of the "immaterial." She contextualizes the cybernetic and temporal entanglement embedded within societal dynamics to understand how all sociotechnological systems of control are interconnected, and how we are all implicated through time. She often dreams, experiments and inquires through built virtual environments, printed matter, video, archives, writing, installation and community-participatory (un)learning. Zai is currently a 2022 fellow at NYU Tisch's Future Imagination Collaboratory, design director for the African Film Festival at the Film at Lincoln Center in NYC and a co-director of the School for Poetic Computation.

Neta Bomani is an abolitionist, learner and educator who is interested in parsing information and histories while making things by hand with human and non-human computers. Neta’s work combines archives, oral histories, computation, social practices, printmaking, paper engineering, zine making and workshops to create do it yourself artifacts.

As an artist, educator, and organizer, Melanie Hoff studies the role that technology plays in social organization and in reinforcing hegemonic structures. They are co-director of the School for Poetic Computation and a founding member of Soft Surplus and the Cybernetics Library. Melanie strives to cultivate spaces of learning and feeling that encourage honesty and reconciliation for the ways we are shaped by systems of gender, racialization, class, and the trauma these systems inscribe upon our bodies.