Thomas Allen Harris

Thomas Allen Harris is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and scholar whose work explores family, identity, and spirituality. Drawing on the rich canon of African American and African Diaspora literature and arts, he draws audiences into dialogues that transcend the barriers which separate people from each other. Harris’ work re-interprets concepts around identity, autobiography, and representation using a model of co-creative socially engaged practice. 

For over 30 years Harris has been creating deeply personal films that re-interpret the idea of documentary, autobiography and personal archive, including: Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela (2005), É Minha Cara/That’s My Face (2001),  VINTAGE - Families of Value (1995), and the NAACP Image Award Winning, Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2014). Harris’ new projects include My Mom, The Scientist, a documentary film exploring his mother’s career as a chemistry professor and the unique challenges facing African Americans pursuing careers in STEM, and its corresponding national outreach project, Scientists in the Family, funded by the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the Heising-Simons Foundation.

Margarida Correia

Margarida Correia is a Portuguese artist focused on photography and storytelling. Correia uses her work to delve into the historical and personal significance of locations embraced by Portuguese communities. She lives and works in Lisbon. She received an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. 

Correia had solo shows at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, the AIR Gallery in New York, at Real Art Ways in Hartford, the Texas Woman’s University in Denton (USA), the EDP Foundation, the Museum of São Roque, Gallery Monumental, Gallery 111, in Lisbon and the Museum D. Diogo Sousa in Braga. 

She has also exhibited at White Columns, the Dorsky Gallery, the Bronx Museum for the Arts, Exit Art, ABC No Rio, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York; the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, The Print Center in Philadelphia, the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Vermont Center for Photography (USA), Gallery 44 in Canada, Cokkie Snoei Gallery in Holland. In Portugal she exhibited at Galeria Municipal do Porto, Fundação EDP, Espaço Novo Banco, Centro Cultural de Belem and Gallery ZDB, among others. 

Correia was a recipient of grants and awards from the Puffin Foundation in New Jersey, the AIR Gallery in New York, the Joyce Elaine Photography Grant in Texas and fellowships from the Aaron Siskind Foundation in New York (US) and the Camões Institute, DGArtes, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Luso American Foundation and the Portuguese Center for Photography (Portugal).

Sam Morrison

Sam Morrison is an LA-based writer, actor, and comedian. Hailing from Florida, Sam found his home performing his unique brand of high-energy humor and storytelling at NYC’s premier comedy clubs. Since then he has emerged into the writing scene with a Broadway run on the horizon. In 2023 he made his television debut on Late Night With Seth Meyers and since has been named a Just For Laughs New Face, performed on Comedy Central Featuring and The Drew Barrymore Show, and appeared on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, Howard Stern, and Tamron Hall.

His first two solo shows were critically acclaimed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and his third show Sugar Daddy, extended Off-Broadway four times and was hailed as “The best new show in New York” by The Daily Beast. Presented by Billy Porter and Alan Cumming, Sugar Daddy is now in development for Broadway. He has performed in the New York Comedy Festival five times, being selected for Best of New Talent in 2019 and headlining in 2024. He has also performed in the Netflix is a Joke Festival, was a Finalist in the Stand Up NBC nationwide search, and a staff writer and voice over actor on S1 of Bravo's Blind Date hosted by Nikki Glaser. He is a 2025 Yes, And Laughter Lab Fellow, he hosts his own Youtube series where he takes comedians thrifting, and co-hosts the show ROOMIES with Dylan Adler in Los Angeles.

Willow Defebaugh

Willow Defebaugh is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Atmos Magazine, an award-winning climate and culture media platform that tells stories about the environment through a lens of creativity. She is the author of The Overview, a deep ecology newsletter and book. She is a lifelong student of nature and graduated with a degree in creative writing from the University of Michigan. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Teen Vogue, V Magazine, Interview, i-D, BBC, The Guardian, them, New York Magazine, and more. She lives in Brooklyn on unceded Lenape territory.