Jackie Castillo is a Los Angeles-based artist working in sculpture, installation, and film photography. Her work has been exhibited at Various Small Fires, Los Angeles (2024); As-is Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); California Museum, Sacramento (2023); Long Beach Museum of Art (2023); The Mistake Room, Los Angeles (2023); UCLA Broad Art Center, Los Angeles (2022); Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Mexican Center for Culture and Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, CA (2021); Park View/Paul Soto Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); and the Material Art Fair in Mexico City, MX (2022). In 2023, Castillo’s work was acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She was also awarded the 2021 Individual Artist Fellowship by the California Arts Council.

James Rojas is an urban planner, community activist, artist, and leading voice in participatory urbanism. He is the founder of Place It!, an interdisciplinary, community-healing visioning process that uses storytelling, object-making, art, and play to transform public outreach into a creative, inclusive, and impactful experience. Over the past 20 years, James has facilitated more than 2,000 workshops and built over 600 interactive models across the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Europe, and South America. James is one of the few nationally recognized urban planners to explore how Latinx cultural practices shape the American landscape. His work sheds light on how Latino communities interpret, reshape, and reclaim urban and suburban spaces. His recent book, Dream, Play, Build, co-authored with John Kamp, presents a new model of community engagement based on relationship building—a method rooted in joy, memory, and collaboration, and specifically designed to include those historically excluded from the planning table.

Nicolas Orozco-Valdivia is a writer and curator living in New York City, where he is a PhD student in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has curated exhibitions at various art spaces and museums, including at The Mistake Room, Avenue 50 Studio, LACE, and LACMA.