Celeste Brutus has been working in the fields of nonprofit management and youth development for over fifteen years. After receiving her bachelor's degree in middle level education from Concordia University, she began her career working with a national nonprofit to launch after school programs in the low income high needs areas of north Houston in an effort to close the opportunity gap and provide resources and educational opportunities for students and their families. In 2015 Celeste and her sister launched a co-op for homeschooling families for the purpose of social development, field trips and a local resources exchange. Since starting graduate school in 2017 she has volunteered her experience and services to entrepreneurs and new business owners to assist them in them in developing their nonprofit bylaws, standard operating procedures and program outlines. Volunteering with youth and business development mentorships she has gained an abundance of diverse experiences that she has cultivated into a professional career as a nonprofit consultant and program manager. She recently completed the Masters in Divinity program at Regent University and is now working on her Master's in Human Services with a concentration in Mediation. Her passion for mental health stems from both personal experiences and witnessing the lack of accessable resources for her students and their families.

Jason is a poet and educator with fourteen years of experience in higher education. He has been a composition and creative writing instructor throughout the Midwest and Northeast. He was a contributing editor at Evergreen Review. He is a member of The Unbearables poetry collective and has had work appear in The Otter as well as in the Kind of a Hurricane Press anthologies The Seasons and Storm Cycle, the first two issues of Post[blank], The Pangolin Review, A Gathering of the Tribes, The Santa Clara Review and South Florida Poetry Journal. He has also had his book reviews published in Sensitive Skin, Gainsayer and The Otter. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife, fellow poet Brendaliz Guerrero, and works as an adjunct English instructor at Maryville University while attending the Masters of Fine Art in Creative Writing program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

(b. 1983, Santa Rosa, California) Weisberg graduated with a BFA and high honors from California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA in 2005. Weisberg has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, most recently a solo exhibition at Galerie Lefebvre et Fils, Paris, France (2019) and a two-person exhibition at Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York, NY with Alice Mackler (2018). He has also participated in numerous residencies including The Residency Program, Versailles, France (2019), Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY (2018), and Fountainhead residency, Miami, FL, (2012). He is the subject of a recent monograph, Masques et Bergamasques, published by Editions Lord Byron, Paris, France. Weisberg currently lives and works in NY and is faculty at Greenwich House Pottery.