Nicole is a New York-based curator, writer, and researcher drawing from local and international influence and experience. They fiercely believe in the transformative power of community action to drive meaningful change. In their work, they hope to harness art's potential to ignite communal, radical imagination toward a more just, sustainable future.

In 2023, they graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Sustainable Development and Anthropology. They are now the Zero Waste Fellow at Columbia University. Nicole's research centers the profound impact of art, food, and popular culture on our perceptions of the built and natural environment.

Though Nicole is passionate about working in the art world, they see tons of waste across disciplines. They aspire to create a more accessible, sustainable, art world with a meaningful consideration for the environment. They advocate environmental justice in higher education and are actively involved in developing workshops and curricula to promote equitable access to educational resources. Nicole inspires collective action towards just climate solutions.

Kasey is a driven New York-based creative inspired by the motivation to connect with different communities, cultures, and walks of life through a passion for storytelling. She is fascinated by pushing the boundaries on what forms impactful storytelling can embody through producing immersive experiences, journalism, live performances, creating art, editing films, and writing stories.

Her work is influenced by her dance training from Nashville Ballet, New Dialect, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Violette Verdy at L'Academie Americain de Danse de Paris, Suzanne Farrell, Andra and Ernesta Corvino, and summers at the Pre-Movement Invention Project and Ellison Ballet. She made her NYC debut as a soloist in The Good So Far by Christopher Williams at David Geffen Hall. She performed in Paul Taylor's Company B at Interlochen Center for the Arts, works by Antonia Franceschi and Amy Hall Garner at New York Live Arts, as a dancer on HBO's Plot Against America, Kitri in Don Quixote and Alice in Alice in Wonderland at Columbia University, and as a supernumerary with American Ballet Theatre.

In 2021, Broekema graduated as a Core Scholar and on the Dean's List as an English major from Columbia University.

Sarai Daniels began dancing at three years old in New York, learning jazz, tap, hip-hop, and ballet. At age ten, she decided to concentrate her training in classical ballet at the Charlotte Ballet Academy. During her time there, she learned ballet from teachers such as Patricia McBride and jazz class instruction by Rachel Tucker. Sarai has been accepted into summer intensive programs at the American Ballet Theater, the Joffrey Ballet School, and Charlotte Ballet. From 2011-2016, Sarai performed in the Charlotte Ballet Academy’s rendition of the ballet The Nutcracker directed by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux. In 2022, she graduated from New York University with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Web Development and Programming. While attending the school, she had the opportunity to perform pieces by Sidra Bell, Ronald K. Brown, Elizabeth Coker, and peer-choreographers. Post-graduation, she performed her own solo at the Agropoli Dance Festival in 2022, as well as, participated in the WADE summer dance program. Sarai strives to combine her technological knowledge with her creativity to create innovative pieces of art.

Sophie is a Brooklyn-based artist who grew up in Seattle, Washington. She is a recent graduate of Drama at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She studied primarily in the Playwrights Horizons Studio and the Stonestreet Studio. Sophie works in riveting developmental theatre and film alongside fantastic collaborators such as Kelly McCready, Holly Arsenault, Keiko Green, and Jan Rosenberg. Sophie, along with the cast of Erica Schmidt's Mac Beth (Seattle Repertory Theatre, Red Bull Theatre, Hunter Theatre Project) was nominated for best revival of a play at the 2020 Lucille Lortel Awards and the 2020 Drama Desk Awards.

Sophie - along with many Seattlites - loves a cup of dark
roast coffee, camping in the Pacific Northwest, and her civic responsibility!

Campbell Ives is from the Hudson Valley and is currently based in Brooklyn. They earned a B.A. in Dance from Barnard College in 2022. Now, they are a House Manager at New York Live Arts and working in artistic collaboration with Gesture Theater a trans-led movement theater company.

Klara is a Latin Styles dancer from the Czech Republic who has won over ten World and European solo dance championships. As an ex-professional, she is now expanding her horizons by taking classes in house and other street dance styles.