Kayla Montes de Oca is a designer, researcher, and educator from Miami, Florida based in Brooklyn, New York. Her research examines how residents sustain tradition and build legacy while understanding how policy and design decisions impact communities over time. This work includes examining how the meaning of home is reconfigured in the changing city through the history of New York City Housing Authority complexes and exploring public memory through land use and zoning of New York City cemeteries. She has also conducted research at the Radcliffe Institute mapping genealogical connections of enslaved people in the North.
 
Kayla has worked in curation and programming through Artist Space and Storefront for Art and Architecture. She is also involved in bringing architectural education to younger audiences as a Design Educator at the Center for Architecture and a Teaching Artist through Young Audiences New York.
 
Kayla received her B.Arch from Cooper Union and has a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.

Kayla's CV is available here.

Tida Tep is an independent creative director and designer. She works at the intersection of design, art, film, fashion, and culture and has collaborated with clients including Apple, The New York Times, MoMA, Uniqlo, LVMH, and Google Creative Lab. She is also the creative director of Tidal magazine, an independent bi-annual fashion and pop culture magazine. She received her BFA in Graphic Design from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Postgraduate Certificate in Typeface Design from Type@Cooper. 

Aletheia Ida is an architect, designer, philosopher, and socio-environmental technologist. She has over twenty-five years of experience in professional architecture practice and academia and is fluent in building performance analytics. Aletheia holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Architectural Sciences from the Center for Architecture, Science, and Ecology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In her practice activities, Dr. Ida conducts design research for emerging environmental building technologies and alternative building methods to achieve symbiosis between human experience and nature. Her newest venture is founding AIDA, LLC, a unique practice that provides affordable access to design knowledge and guidance for healthy, beautiful, and energy-efficient homes and workspaces. Aletheia is also the co-founder of Analemma, a creative partnership for innovative art, experiences, and design. She has served as an associate professor of architecture at the University of Arizona, a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, as a guest lecturer at Yale, Princeton, and Howard University, and as a guest critic at the University of Michigan, the University of Washington, and others.

Aletheia's CV is available here.