Benaifer is a storyteller, educator and clinical social worker. Her life’s work is to create spaces where people can experience non-judgmental listening and connect deeply through the power of voice.  She facilitates workshops and holds one-on-one spaces for anyone who wants to feel more connection and freedom in their lives. She grew up between the sea-face of Bombay and the cliff sides of England and is one of ~190,000 Zoroastrians in the world, and is still pretty proud of it! Benaifer performed in and co-directed YKR 2017 and is giddily excited to co-direct 2018.  

Born and bred in Jersey, Dee aspires to bring new levels of queerness to everyday life, with the help of both their lady love and their feline life partner. Their passion lies in expanding models of gender, racial, and sexual identity and promoting more complex narratives of those intersections. They work with young people to support their self-education on major social issues, and to advance those young people’s advocacy efforts towards policy change in New York City. Much of their time is spent advocating and agitating for racial and queer justice through literature, education and social media.

Yumnah is a born and raised California girl turned New Yorker. The eldest daughter of Pakistani immigrants, her life has been an endless quest to figure out “who am I?” A social worker with a passion for storytelling, her lifework is centered around making the world a better place. She is the most Libra Libra to ever Libra, is a proud cat mama to two cats, and since marrying her partner, has become proud step-mama to two wondrous girls.. Yumnah performed in the inaugural YKR 2015, co-directed YKR 2016, and is thrilled to be back to co-direct YKR 2018!