Rachel AO
Singer
Nadia Hunter Bey
poet
Alfredo Diaz
artist (3B crew)
Eye Matter
arts program
Erniesto Cisneros
author of Efren Divided
Wendy Maruyama
Artist and Furniture Designer
Nikolai Garcia
poet
Peppur Chambers
writer/producer/educator
Janet Owen Driggs
Director/curator Cypress College Art Gallery
Jim Daichendt
co-curator, Street Legacy: SoCal Style Masters
Jesenia Chavez
poet
Harvey Estrada
bassist / music professor at Compton College
Yenny Bernal
artist
Aaron Estrada
artist (3B crew)
Lydia Theron Ware
poet, editor of Cartless
Sammy Quetzalli
poet
Vincent Cooper
poet
Pedro Kos
director of Lead Me Home
Deborah Aschheim
artist
Erin Yoshi
painter
Tricia Lopez
Poet/Podcaster
Bintu Sol
singer/songwriter
Gustavo Arellano
author/podcaster/LA Times columnist
Katie Ruiz
artist
Cathy Segal-Garcia
singer/producer
Shane Alexander
singer/songwriter
Scatterbrain
hip-hop artist
Ernie Perez
lead singer of the Boxing Gandhis and founder of Rock A Mole Productions
Iona Morris
filmmaker/television and theater director
Neil Shigley
artist
Claire Hannah Collins
director of Hollywood's Finest
Propaganda
poet
Raul Pacheco
guitarist, Ozomotli
Chris Siders
poet / Sand and Sea Productions
Dona Junta
Beyond the Facade podcast
Rita Dunn
poet / artist / author
Karina Nistal
singer/songwriter
Steph Cha
author
Alejandro Cohen
Director of DubLab
Cindy Romero
painter/poet
Angelina Saenz
La Palabra / poet
James Tyner
Fresno's first poet laureate
Asia Yu
Director, No Easy Props
Andru Defeye
poet laureate of Sacramento
Janet Gonzalez
owner of Innovative Auto / poet
Naibe Reynoso
author of How To Fold A Taco
Armond Kinnard
poet/storyteller
Mike Scully
musician/band leader
Robin Lee Riddell
pottery artist, gallery owner
Stephanie Serrano
poet / Director "Seeds of Peace"
Carvell Holloway
jazz trumpeter / head of music education at Dominguez High School in Compton
Rebecca Contreras
artist
Anita Sugimura
Gizzy Bear Productions / director of Battlefield: Home
Jessica Gallion
poet
Pocha Pena
Media Arts Santa Ana
Rizz Javier
photographer
Max Presneill
Artist/Curator at Torrance Art Museum
Melissa Ritz
Served podcast / Performer
Audrey Castellon
poet
Luis Antonio Pichardo
DSTL Arts
Brenda Vaca
poet
Kemal Cilengir
StreetwiseLA photographer
Christina Ham
playwright (Nina Simone: Four Women)
Carolina Rivera Escamilla
writer
Alessandra Moctezuma
Mesa College Gallery director / muralist
Chinwe Oniah
filmmaker
Tawnee Lynn
French horn / Tawnee Lynn Music Services
Michael Schilf
director of Tears of the Field
Rahman Jamaal
Executive Director of Hip-Hop Congress
Glynis Phillips
poet
Stacey Fayant
traditional indigenous tattoo artist
Taylor Chapin
Murals of La Jolla
Hannah Sward
Author of Strip: A Memoir
Nancy Woo
Surprise the Line / poet
Mary Scholz
singer/songwriter
Joshua Collins
singer/songwriter / street preacher and homeless advocate in Orange County
Oscar Magallanes
artist (3B crew)
Jeff Hobbs
Author of Children of the State: Stories of Survial and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
Genevieve Anderson
filmmaker
Ra Avis
writer
Tongo Eisen-Martin
poet laureate of San Francisco
Juanita Mantz
writer, podcaster, public defender
Peter J. Harris
writer
Erika Akire Cohn
director of What You'll Remember
Brian Cross (aka BPlus)
author of It's Not About a Salary and Ghost Notes
Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara
singer/writer/poet/star of Emmy-nominated film Con Safos
Riston Diggs
rapper
Matt Sedillo
poet
Laura Warrell
author of Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
Adam Manley
furniture designer
Bumdog Torres
street photographer
David Blumenkrantz
photographer
Caesar K Avelar
poet laureate of Pomona
Megan Greenough
singer
Dani Dodge
artist
Ismael Pineda
percussionist
Besskepp
Founder of A Mic and Dim Lights / poet
Carla Silveira Hernandez
Musical artist
Andrew McLees
photographer / FrozenWaste.land.com
Meetra Johansen
Founder of Huma House
Randal Fisher
jazz saxophonist
Tyrone Stokes
Dope Spot Studios / Pomona
Abel Salas
Publisher of Brooklyn & Boyle / poet
Jonathan Celiz
musician
Joe Hernandez-Kolski
actor/poet/comedian
Bhavna Mehta
artist
Ivan Salinas
poet
Jhoanna Belfer
Bel Canto Books in Long Beach
Samira Barragan
filmmaker
Sean Hill
poet
Allison Moore Adams
painter
Jamal Hill
Swim Up Hill / champion Paralympic swimmer
Brooks Wachtel
TV writer / novelist
Marcus Omari
Poetic Reform Party
Kim Estes
actor
Scarlett Brais
lead singer, Scarlett and the Fever
Tina Orduno Calderon
singer/poet
Joshua Woolen
poet/filmmaker
Stephen Snavely
director of Think Lovely Thoughts
Iris DeAnda
poet
Alixen Pham
Poet
Tori Eldridge
author of Dance Among the Flames
David A. Romero
poet
Jeremiah Joe Ocanas
Lone Stars Entertainment
Greg Bresnitz
host of food/music podcast
Robyn McNair
Boca de Oro Festival
Jill Carol
wrestling photographer
Lee Ballinger
author of Love and War: My First Thirty Years of Writing
Cati Porter
poet
Gill Sotu
san diego writers festival poet-in-residence
Nickie Black
filmmaker
Sal Rosales
rapper
Milagro Jones
poet/musician
April Banks
Artist
Yago Cura
co-author of Library Stories
David Davis
author of Wheels of Courage
Janelle Brown
author of I'll Be You
Briana Munoz
poet/writer/Aztec dancer
Alkaid Ramirez
photographer
Theo Henderson
We The Unhoused podcast
Sara Harris
Poet
Oleg Kagan
Co-author of Library Stories
Anthony Parker
poet
Bryan Medina
former Fresno poet laureate
Hayk Makhmuryan
art worker and community organizer with doodleswithoutborders.com
Hiram Sims
Sims Library of Poetry
Rusty
singer
Cassandra Lane
author of We Are Bridges / Editor in Chief of LA Parent
Joaquin Jimenez
hip-hop artist/studio and record label owner
Lynne Thompson
Los Angeles poet laureate
Annie Buckley
Executive Director, Prison Arts Collective
Aideed Medina
poet
Esteban Escobedo
rodeo trick roper
Joselyn and Don
singer-songwriter duo
Jenni Alpert aka Cami & her birth father Don
singer/songwriter
Lisbeth Coiman
poet
Jonah Elijah
muralist
Chuck Nunley IV
hip hop artist/filmmaker/broadcaster
Thelma Reyes
author of Dearest Papa and When The Virus Came Calling
Jimmy Recinos
poet/podcaster
Charles
poet
Nic Reiner
Poet
Sati Kaur
filmmaker
Miles Henry
actor/singer
Black Rose
founder of Zoom Black Magic Radio the world's first pirate radio station
Jenny Kane
arts connection, san bernadino
3sixo
hip-hop artist
Hanna Kight Witham
Writer
Joyce Logan
Gospel International
Tamara Blue
A Mic and Dim Lights / poet
Julian Torres
mariachi singer
Mayela Rodriguez
arts program manager, Blue Sky Center
Tom Proctor
actor/musician
Kevin Jones
singer
Carla Vega
poet/singer/writer/actor
Jules Muck
graffiti artist
Margaret Aichele
dA Gallery Director
Marlene Nancy Lopez
artist
Tanya Ko Hong
poet
Key Kool
hip-hop artist with the Visionaries
Elynar Moreno
Professor of Sociology / Southwest College
Oscar Martinez
artist
Crystal Salas
Poet
Virginia Bulacio
poet/photographer
Alexis Rhone Fancher
poet
Astrid
poet / author of Through the Soil in My Skin
Eric Nusbaum
author of Stealing Home
Iz Gutierrez
director of They Call Us Sediciosos
Madeliene Spencer
Boca de Oro Festival
Joey Castanon
Sign spinner
Ruth Nolan
Poet
Shaunte Palmer
The Harmony Project / trombonist
Amos Adelone
musician
Chris Pierce
singer/songwriter
Shana Nys Dambrot
Arts Editor LA Weekly
Lou Matthews
author of Shaky Town
Tama Brisbane
Stockton poet laureate
April Jones
filmmaker
Grant White
filmmaker
Madi Parsley
editor of Drifter
Kevin Sandbloom
singer/songwriter
Miri Hunter
Thought Theater
Jessica Kim
Poet
Katisse Buckingham
jazz saxophone/flute; soundtrack composer
Lee Herrick
Calfornia state poet laureate
Joshua Silverstein
poet/actor/beatboxer
Mark Pico
singer/songwriter
Denise Sandoval
organizer of low rider events
Melina Paris
writer at Random Lengths / podcaster
Jason Luckett
singer/songwriter
Morgan Miller
artist/printmaker
Roy Williams Jr.
filmmaker / actor
Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin
photographer
Lizbeth de la Cruz Santana
muralist/filmmaker
Ant Black
professor at San Bernadino Valley College / poet
Christian Lozada
poet
Ryane Nicole Granados
writer
Agente
hip hop artist
Jennalyn Alonzo
musician
Dale Maharidge
author of Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s
True to the Universe
Social justice oriented classic rock band
Kate Maruyama
author of Family Solstice
Jon Bruschke
writer/producer of Change the Game
Nyarae Francis
poet
Janna Ireland
author of Regarding Paul R. Williams
Luis Rodriguez
poet/author
Alon Goldsmith
photographer
Soraya Young-Pen
chalk artist
Sijia Chen
artist
Mike Liorti
musician/podcaster
Evelyn McDonnell
writer
Diana L. Sanchez
artist
Amilia K. Spicer
singer/songwriter
Tony Lepre
guitarist in Attack of the Rising
Black and Brown Movement
hip-hop crew
Anna Simone Scott
filmmaker / director of Take My Heart
Kimberly Duran
painter
Andrew Thompson
The Little Gallery (San Bernadino)
Thrasher
Author of Head Bangin' Radio
The Last Letter
writer/podcaster
Fabian Debora
artist/executive director, Homeboy Art Academy
L.A. N8v
hip-hop artist
Emile Poree
guitarist/singer
Susan Hayden
author of Now You Are a Missing Person
Erica Torres
musician
WillFlo (William Flores)
Director South Central Arts
Mike Sonksen (aka Mike the Poet)
author of Letters To My City
Molly Trochez
artist