Tracy Nguyen was born and raised in San Jose, California. Over the last decade, Tracy worked within the nonprofit sector to uplift the voices and power of refugees, immigrants, workers, women, youth, LGBTQ community, and incarcerated individuals. With her creative passion for visual storytelling, she became a freelance artist in videography and graphic facilitation. Today, she is working in the corporate tech sector, trying to bridge all her different worlds to make a meaningful impact.

Jinji resides on unceded Tamien/Muwekma Ohlone lands, (San José). They'd like to highlight organizations they are/have been involved with: PAWIS South Bay, Delano Manongs Park Project, FANHS Silicon Valley, Anakbayan San José, CreaTV San Jose, Eastside Magazine, More Mas Marami Arts. Currently they are completing an apprenticeship through the Alliance for California Traditional Arts with their mentor, author Conrad Benedicto. Listen to their band's music on all streaming platforms by searching ""Kulintang Dialect"

Yasmine Gomez is a writer, director, producer, and APAture alum from Los Angeles. Once an aspiring scientist, she pivoted into filmmaking, directing multiple award-winning short films, including TERRA COTTA, ASIAN AMERICAN JESUS, CONSUMED, PARTY FAVOR, and LEA SALONGA: WHO I AM INSIDE. Recently, she produced for Vox, THE ELLEN SHOW, the documentary feature SPLIT AT THE ROOT, and Beyonce's BLACK IS KING. Last year, Yasmine made her playwriting debut for Bindlestiff Studio's Stories High.

Sabina Shanti Kariat is an Indian-American animator, artist, and filmmaker based in San Francisco. She has created animations for documentary films about diasporic narratives and activist histories, and works as a storyboard artist for animated shorts focused on radical BIPOC stories. Sabina has held co-creation workshops in the Bay, in Jharkhand India, and in Turkey. She is currently a freelance animator and manages a public arts program for Bay Area-based immigrant and refugee artists.

Jalena Keane-Lee is a filmmaker who explores intergenerational healing through narrative change. She is a recipient of the Gotham Documentary Fellowship, Creative Culture Woman Filmmaker Fellowship, Wyncote Fellowship, NeXt Doc Fellowship and named one of Adobe x Sundance’s 2023 Women to Watch. She has won Tribeca Through Her Lens 2020 and DocPitch 2022. Her short films have played at over 50 film festivals, winning best short at LA Asian Film Festival in 2020 and the Jury Award at Sundance in 2023. Jalena co-founded Breaktide Productions, an all women of color production company that has won two Cannes Lion awards for branded content. She is currently working on her first feature documentary which participated in the 2022 Sundance Edit and Story Lab.

Adamu Chan is a filmmaker, writer, and community organizer from the Bay Area who was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison during one of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in the country. He produced numerous short films while incarcerated, using his vantage point and experience as an incarcerated person as a lens to focus the viewer’s gaze on issues related to social justice. Adamu draws inspiration and energy from the voices of those directly impacted, and seeks to empower them to reshape the narratives that have been created about them through film.