Casey Mecija is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at York University and holds a PhD from the University of Toronto. Her current research theorizes sounds made in and beyond Filipinx diaspora to make an argument about a “queer sound” that permeates diasporic sensibilities. Her work suggests that media production enables diasporic people to create forms of belonging that defy racialized ascriptions born from racism, colonialism, and their gendered dimensions. She is also a musician and filmmaker, whose work has received a number of accolades and has been presented internationally.

Noor Alé is a curator, art historian, and writer. She is the Associate Curator at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto. Her curatorial practice examines the intersections of contemporary art with geopolitics. At The Power Plant, she curated Sasha Huber: YOU NAME IT, Hiwa K: Do you remember what you are burning?, and she was an institutional curator for Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity. As an independent curator, she curated this is not an atlas, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington; Here Comes the Sun, Art Gallery of Burlington; and OF THE SACRED, Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto.

Jagdeep Raina is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Guelph, Ontario. He holds a Masters degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and was a 2021 Paul Mellon Fellow at Yale University. Raina currently lives and works in Houston, Texas.