Sabrina Stone is a NYC born, New Orleans based musician, painter, photographer, writer, and editor. She currently writes for ANTIGRAVITY, Where Y’At, and 64 Parishes (Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities). She has been published in OffBeat Magazine (NOLA’s “Music Bible”), Very Local (Hearst), Scooter (The NY Observer), Quarterlette, Femsplain, I’m Music Magazine, Hear.by, Hello Giggles, and Huffington Post. As a solo musician, she's headlined The Mercury Lounge (Bowery Presents—NYC) and The Toff in Town (Melbourne, AUS), she's played 30+ gigs at The Bitter End ("NYC's Oldest Rock Club"), and has three albums out on all platforms, with a fourth on the way. Her most recent album sold 200+ physical copies in its first week at Peaches Records. She’s on the events team at Preservation Hall (NOLA’s most renowned jazz venue) and writes for their foundation. You can catch her around town playing bass and singing lead vocals for local rock band, WAR BUNNIES. They are currently in the studio recording their debut EP. @sabrinastonemusic @warbunniesband

Amanda “Bonita” Mester is a music industry professional, journalist, editor, and academic based in New Orleans. She is currently a Justice Studies PhD student at the University of New Orleans, where she hopes to focus on issues of restorative justice for members of the BIPOC community. She received her master’s degree in Media Studies from Fordham University in 2010, after which she went on to teach Media Criticism at Adelphi University. In 2017, she began a three-year tenure as the Digital Editor at OffBeat, the city’s pre-eminent music and culture publication. She served as Contributing Editor for the prestigious hip-hop publication Ambrosia for Heads, and has additional bylines at Genius, Audiomack, and DJ Booth. More recently, she co-founded the Gentilly Agency with Raj Smoove, where she leads efforts in artist development and management. She is a member of Gambit’s Big Easy Awards music committee and has moderated panels produced by the Jazz & Heritage Foundation Under her independent creative agency Under the Sun, she works with some of New Orleans’ pre-eminent hip-hop talent including Alfred Banks, glbl wrmng, Kr3wcial and many others. @heyyybonita

Shirani Jayasuriya grew up splitting time between family in Minneapolis and New Orleans—where she's now lived full-time for over a decade. She's a writer, a lover of all things music, poetry, and art, and a community organizer who advocates for racial justice. Shirani is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, where she studied Comparative Literature and Theatre, both through a decolonized lens. She is a graduate of The Committee for a Better New Orleans (CBNO) Bryan Bell Metropolitan Leadership Forum and serves as Co-chair for the Forum’s 2023 programming. She is the Communications Manager for Ride New Orleans, a local non profit that fights for equitable public transit for our region. Old musicals, old skool hip-hop, curries from around the world, and the beach are a few of her favorite things. Shirani shares her Uptown home with Cat Stevens, her semi-feral cat, and Jason, her fairly domesticated partner. @serenitythequeen

Alia Muhaymin grew up in Southern California, then moved to Louisiana to get her undergrad degrees in Arts & Humanities and Graphic Design at Southeastern Louisiana University. Alia’s work is influenced by Swiss design, as well as the designers Lella and Massimo Vignelli, for their appreciation of simplistic and type heavy design work. She’s goes to art shows and visits museums whenever she gets the chance. Outside of her art and design life, she likes to go on walks with her dogs, listen to a vast variety of music, collect albums, and go to local places to indulge in food and desserts with her friends. From her experience in designing brands and publications, Alia has created her own online based studio, studio3 where she helps others bridge the gap between the concept of their ideas to reality. @by.studio3

LeeAnna Callon is a Mississippi native but has called New Orleans home for over a decade. By day, she manages a local independent bookstore. By night, she sleeps. At her kindergarten graduation, she was awarded the “Tallest Tale Award” for her creative spins on the truth. She holds BAs in journalism and English from the University of Southern Mississippi. Her interests include books, reading books, collecting books, immortality, and haunted dolls. Her poetry has appeared in the Tilted House Review, Nurture, Lucky Jefferson, and Lit.202. Her poem “Reverie” was featured as a broadsheet by Lucky Bean Press in March 2022. @actually_its_leeanna