Cat Stoehr

Cat is currently based in Buffalo, NY, working as a grant writer for GObike– a community-based organization that advocates for transportation justice and equitable approaches to active mobility across Western New York. They also are a part of the Archive of Urban Futures, a research team led by Dr. Brandi Summers that aims to create interdisciplinary, multimedia scholarship on Black life and memory in Oakland,CA.  As a team, they recently contributed elements of the Archive to an exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California entitled Black Spaces, opening July 2025. […]

Lauren Batza

Lauren resides in New York City and works in the financial compliance field.

Junyoung Kim

Junyoung is pursuing a PhD in Korean Studies at the University of Washington. His areas of interest are queerness and masculinity in modern Korea, as impacted by Japanese colonization and American military occupation.

Misty Carlisle

Misty is currently pursuing an MFA in Writing for Film and Television at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.

C.G. Branch

C.G. is currently a PhD student in American Studies at Boston University. Their interdisciplinary scholarship interrogates the politics of sensuality as a site of cultural production, bodily governance, and affective resistance within the context of the American empire. Drawing on critical race theory, feminist and queer thought, performance studies, and disability studies, C.G.’s work explores how sensuality functions as both a mode of state regulation and a terrain for insurgent world-making.

Diana Choi

Diana is currently back in Koreatown, Los Angeles. She is learning how to love reading again and writing when she has time.

Emma Marie Rider

Emma recently started working at Innovative Artists in Santa Monica.

Scott Underwood

Scott’s American Studies degree capped a forty-year career in technology and design. He is now exploring retirement by playing bass in bluegrass and rock bands in the East Bay, reading widely, and visiting his grandchildren.