Dr Aditi Jaganathan is a thinker and creator, writer and dreamer. Having worked at the intersections of law, culture and politics in various capacities, Aditi is motivated by a politics of refusal, living in rupture as rapture; turning away from hegemonic worlds of oppression and tuning into something different, beyond the world we live in and moving to the rhythms of an elsewhere. It is this compulsion which guides her pedagogy in the education work she does. Riffing off education for liberation, she creates spaces of (un)learning as a site of radical praxis, using tools of music, film and visual culture, to unpack the ways in which ideologies of oppression and liberation travel through cultural production.

Nana Sharifa “Ageno” Bryan: Ɔkomfo Nana Sharifa “Ageno” Bryan, M.S. is a poly-mystic Spiritist and a working priestess in the Akom Asante African Tradition, an initiated Iyanifa in Yoruba Isese and Orisa, and a Yayi Nganga Nkisi Malongo in the African Diasporic tradition of Palo Briyumba. As a transcultural interdisciplinary social practice spiritual artist and cultural preservationist, she curates community centered ecosomatic healing experiences that traverse through indigenous culture traditions and educates on lineage sacred ecologies by way of collective public rituals. She holds a Master of Science in Education degree in Reading, Writing, and Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Kutztown University.

Ayorinde Elisa Peebles is a spirit-led scholar and creative strategist, currently pursuing a PhD in Performance Studies at Tufts University. She was born and raised in Haudenosaunee territory, came into awareness in Lenapehoking and has been embraced as a guest by the Caribbean archipelago of Borikén. Her work uses creative nonfiction, performance, and sound to channel postapocalyptic prophecy and black futurity. Elisa is a student and steward of multiple Afrodiasporic spiritual traditions and identifies as a Black mystic and death keeper. She is a member of Ori Lagba Temple, an Omo Awo of Baba Olóyé Fáṣẹyẹ Ṣangọ́bukúnmi Egúnjobi, and a Dawtas of the Waters Apprentice of Nana Sharifa Ageno. Alongside her PhD, Elisa is currently studying the PRAXIS Alternative Health Practitioner Development System.