Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a journalist, essayist, speaker, educator, and poet focused on issues of diversity, race, culture, and the arts. Her writing has appeared at NBC News Asian America, PRI Global Nation, New America Media, Pacific Citizen, Angry Asian Man, Cha Asian Literary Journal, Kartika Review, and several anthologies, journals, and art exhibitions. She teaches courses on Asian/Pacific Islander American media and civil rights law at the University of Michigan, and creative writing at University of Hawaii Hilo and Washtenaw Community College.

Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe is a writer, editor, performer, and co-founder of The Tetra, an organization that uses art to transform, heal, and forge new ground. She brings her gifts for inspiring others to Detroit where she serves as convener and publisher for an organization that creates an enriching space for women of Detroit to weave community. Her work draws from the profound healing she’s experienced through writing, so that she may help Detroit embrace its own self-worth. Her artistic practice connects with the wounded parts of herself, so that she can serve as a role model for others longing to do the same. Rodriguez Sharpe’s writing investigates cultural intersections, specifically in the patterns that emerge when class, gender, ethnicity, and religion overlap.