Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya is an award-winning neuroscientist-turned-multidisciplinary artist. She is a two-time TED speaker and STEM advocate whose work brings science and society closer together and has been recognized by Fast Company, Forbes and The New York Times. Before becoming an artist, Amanda studied Alzheimer’s Disease at Columbia Medical Center. Early in her career she also trained with Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet. She won a 2016 TED Residency and last year, her work garnered a WeWork Creator’s Award, and she was named one of NBC’s 26 Emerging Asian American Voices. Her work aims to bridge the worlds of art and science.

Christopher Núñez Christopher Unpezverde Núñez is a New York based artist and choreographer. His practice involves movements in dance, performance art, intervened objects, toys, installation and sound recording. A queer immigrant with monocular vision impairment Núñez turns his personal experiences into political performances for healing and comfort. In NY his work has been presented at Movement Research at The Judson Church, The Leslie Lohman Museum for Gay and Lesbian Art, BAM Fisher, NYPL for the Performing Arts and LaGuardia Performing Arts Center.

Kaoru Ikeda is the dancer, choreographer and artistic director at Kaoru Ikeda/MoustacheCat Dance (MCD). She has trained, performed, choreographed, and taught dance ranging from classic ballet to Butoh to modern dance in Japan, the U.S, Australia Switzerland, South Korea, and Mexico. Her international experiences have taught her that dance can cross any border and break through cultural barriers to speak to all people, no matter how different we think we are. Kaoru founded MCD in 2015 to fight against prejudice through dance, and MCD’s project, “Freedom isn’t Free”, was granted by Asian Women Giving Circle in 2017.

Nancy Zendora and the Zendora Dance Company  based in New York since l977, have performed yearly in local venues such as Joyce SoHo, Danspace Project, White Wave Rising  and La Mama Moves Festival. In recent years performances have included festivals in Mexico, Mongolia, Russia and Egypt. Travels to older cultures such as Peru, Egypt, Japan and Mongolia have inspired an interconnectedness of landscape, ritual and art. Zendora is on the Fulbright Roster to Russia and taught recently at Moscow City University in the graduate department of Expressive Arts Therapy. She has performed at the Body/Word Festival in St. Petersburg  and at the Kunstkamera Museum in that city. She has also been invited to teach workshops at the National School of Dance in Mexico City. She teaches a weekly class in Authentic Movement and a bi annual workshop in ‘Poetics of Performance’ a combination of Laban, Butoh and Improvisation techniques using Haiku.