Rashni Stanford is a co-founder of Deep Space Mind 215 mental health co-operative, and formerly co-founder of Youth Healers Stand Up!, a youth-led project centering the leadership of young people experiencing homelessness in Philadelphia. Ras is a social worker focused on critical liberation strategy and enacting afro-futurism everyday. In another life Ras is a writer of institutional sci-fi and horror fiction and founding member of Metropolarity, a Philly-grown sci-fi collective.

Mel Brown is a social scientist and researcher located in the Philadelphia area. Her scope of practice includes building anti-capitalist structures, writing narrative change, research, and systemic carceral navigation & advocacy. Brown’s writings span from personal narrative to meta-theoretical ‘on the ground’ documentation. Brown’s theory around care is centered in explicit consent and direct conflict, with care. Brown received a B.A. in Integrative Art from Pennsylvania State University in 2012 and is a dual master's degree graduate, class of 2023 at both the University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design and School of Social Policy & Practice.