Turner Willman is working to grow an abolitionist Asian America amidst a rising tide of fascism. They are an organizer and digital strategist who brings over a decade of experience to racial justice movements. Since 2018, Turner has worked with the national Asian American organization, 18 Million Rising, on issues such as immigrant rights, gentrification, policing, and more. They have developed the leadership of thousands of Asian American organizers through political education campaigns, trainings, and events. Prior to 18MR, Turner worked at MediaJustice, where they defended internet access and technology rights in BIPOC communities, as well as resisted high-tech policing and surveillance of activists.

Victor Saucedo is a second-generation Latinx artist based in San Francisco, CA. They explore their relationship with White American history and society through their experimentation with bodies, ceramics, and digital collage. Taking inspiration from their own visceral family encounters, Saucedo builds on this as a multidisciplinary artist, reclaiming imprints from historical documents, internet culture, and pornography. Saucedo received a Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art from San Francisco State University in 2022. They’ve exhibited and led curatorial projects throughout the Bay Area in various art spaces, including Et Al, Root Division, Right Window Gallery, and ICASF as part of their Inaugural Meantime Residency.

Truc Nguyen (they/them) is a Vietnamese queer artist whose work with sound began while training at Bay Area public radio station, KALW. They were a fellow at The Intercept and helped relaunch San Francisco's queer radio show, Out In The Bay.

In 2022, they received support from the Sankofa Fund for Cultural Preservation to work on Boat People, a mixed-media piece with animation, photography, and original music. They were an artist in residence at the Dresher Ensemble, where they developed this story into a live radio experience. Recently, they composed music and edited a series of stories for Kearny Street Workshop and is an Audio Engineering Fellow at KALW.

Since 2015, Macro Waves is a California based art collective & creative studio producing immersive experiences through social practice, conceptual art, new media and design. As artists, designers, and technologists of color, Macro Waves embrace collaboration in our creative practice of transforming spaces into places for human connection, exploration, and play.

Macro Waves has produced and curated projects that examine the systems, infrastructures, and processes of future world-building through science fiction-based narratives. Through the use of technology and participatory design, Macro Waves experiments with augmenting spatial environments, disrupting human senses, and engaging in social discourse. Macro Waves' body of work encompasses a broad spectrum of projects, including interactive installations, site-specific performances, immersive theater production, exhibition curation, and other experiential-based projects. The collective’s work focus on introspective work around future ancestry, intergenerational experiences, and collective healing. The collective strives to integrate collaboration and community engagement as a critical foundation in our creative work.

The San Francisco Arts Commission is the City agency that champions the arts as essential to daily life by investing in a vibrant arts community, enlivening the urban environment and shaping innovative cultural policy.