Mehvish Gulzareen Ali is a visual artist, filmmaker, and producer exploring redefining the boundaries of storytelling through installation, film, and fashion design. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh she came to Boston...
Mrinalini Singha is an artist and creative technologist whose growing body of work addresses socio-political, cultural and environmental urgencies across mediums such as film, installation, tangible interfaces and XR. She wears...
Louis J. Massiah joins the Lab and the Co-Creation Studio in partnership with the MIT MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars Program. He is a documentary filmmaker and the founder/director of...
Dr. Tasha Hubbard is an award-winning Cree filmmaker and an associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies/Department of English and Film at the University of Alberta. She is from...
Kidus Hailesilassie’s design merges the boundaries between spatial practice and futures informed by Africa and its diasporic conditions. With a background in architecture and speculative world-building, his works focus on...
Jasmine Heyward is ODL's Communications and Events Production Coordinator, supporting outreach and operations. They were introduced to ODL's work while studying Digital and Interactive Storytelling at the University of Westminster in...
Lori Landay is an interdisciplinary teacher, scholar, and new media artist. She combines creative and theoretical work to explore subjectivity, commodification, and mixed realities in audiovisual culture, from silent movies...
Lamont Jack Pearley is an applied folklorist, ethnographer and African American traditional music historian and practitioner enrolled at Western Kentucky University in the Broadcast, African American and Folk Studies graduate...
Damien McDuffie is a creative technologist, digital archivist, and augmented reality (AR) artist and developer from Oakland. He is the founder of Black Terminus AR, a camera app and augmented...
Max Musau is the founder of Jiwe Interactive, a game studio and distribution platform, based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has 10 years of experience in tech, developing platforms, tech-education programs,...