Adam Ekberg photographs events that he makes happen in the world. His work has been exhibited at the George Eastman Museum, Fotografiska Stockholm, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Aperture, among others. It has been featured in Harper's, Harvard Business Review, The Boston Globe, Oxford American, and N+1. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the George Eastman Museum, MCA Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. He is the recipient of the Society for Photographic Education's Imagemaker Award and the Tanne Foundation Award, and has held residencies at Yaddo, Monson Arts, and Monhegan. When not making art, he can be found on long-distance solo bicycle trips, swimming in any body of water that will have him, and playing Go.

Alison Dilworth is a Canadian born artist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she got her BA from Tyler School of Art. She is a freelance mural painter, book maker, writer, printmaker, scrimshaw engraver, amateur bird taxidermist, teacher and birth doula. Her work involves building shrines to claim space for nameless things through mythology, personal narrative and symbolic language.

Kanwal Singh, MD, is a cornea, cataract, and refractive surgeon and co-director of the Global Eye Program at the University of Iowa. A 2012 graduate of Princeton University and former Young Alumni Trustee, he completed his ophthalmology residency at Baylor College of Medicine and fellowships in cornea and refractive surgery. His work focuses on building sustainable educational partnerships between academic medical centers and institutions in low-resource settings. He was recently a Fulbright Scholar in Egypt.

Lynn Casteel Harper is an essayist, minister, and chaplain. Her debut book, On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear (Catapult, 2020), was named a New York Times Book ReviewEditors’ Choice and a Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle selection for 2021. On Vanishing appeared on the Gold Foundation’s 2021 Reading List for Compassionate Clinicians. Lynn’s essays and interviews have appeared in The New York Times, Kenyon Review Online, Salon, The Paris Review, North American Review, The Christian Science Monitor, NPR’s Think, The Sun Magazine, and elsewhere. Lynn has served as the Minister of Older Adults at The Riverside Church in the City of New York and as a nursing home chaplain. An ordained Baptist minister (Alliance of Baptists), Lynn lives and writes in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where she is the pastor of Olivet Congregational Church UCC.

Michael Rohd has spent thirty-five years asking what it takes for people who don't usually talk to each other to actually talk. He began in 1991 running theater workshops at a hidden HIV clinic in a Washington DC homeless shelter and spent the following decade leading Hope is Vital, a national HIV/AIDS theater and dialogue program. He co-founded Sojourn Theatre in Portland, taught at Northwestern and ASU, and joined the University of Montana in 2022 to found the Co-Lab for Civic Imagination. He is the author of Theatre for Community, Conflict, and Dialogue, the field manual for applied civic theater practice in the US. His current project, State of Mind — created in partnership with Montana Repertory Theatre — is a touring theater and public dialogue residency on behavioral health that has reached 37 Montana communities and more than 2,700 participants. He is still revising the field manual.

Dr. Salmaan Kamal, MD, was raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and he attended Princeton University with a focus on global health and health policy. After graduation, Kamal worked as a policy associate at the National Coalition on Health Care in Washington, D.C., where he advocated for policy reform that improved value in the U.S. health care system.

Kamal attended medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he led the student-run free clinic for the uninsured. He completed internal medicine residency and chief residency at UAB Hospital, where he revamped the advocacy curriculum and completed the Society of General Internal Medicine’s Leadership in Health Policy Program. He is passionate about improving care for people experiencing homelessness, people who use drugs, and people exposed to the criminal legal system.