charles ryan long, MFA is a Chicago based multi-disciplinary artist, activist, and Black liberationist. He explores issues of representation, legacy, and loss through paper making, print, performance, and other mediums that lend themselves to the principles of the democratic multiple. His work seeks out the audience and hopes to stir within them a push towards the future where we center the needs of those with the least amongst us.

Theodore (ted) Kerr, MA is a Brooklyn based writer and organizer whose work focuses on HIV/AIDS, community, and culture. He is a founding member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective. He has lectured at Hunter College, Rutgers and Skidmore College. In 2022, he co-authored a book, We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production.

Joseph Cherabie, MD, MSc, is the Associate Medical Director of the St. Louis County Sexual Health Clinic and the Associate Medical Director of the
St. Louis Prevention Training Center. They specialize in sexual health care with a focus on LGBTQIA+ health, sexually transmitted infections. His research focuses on long term complications of STIs and HIV, STI testing, STI and HIV prevention, and LGBTQIA+ population studies.

Simone is a trainer and consultant with over 20 years of expertise in HIV.  She currently serves as the Director of Training and Technical Assistance at the St. Louis Prevention Training Center. In addition to her role at the Prevention Training Center, she acts as a consultant for two HRSA-funded SPNS initiatives, namely Improving Access to Care and Peer Linkage and Re-Engagement of HIV-Positive Women of Color.

Cristian J. Chandler, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Cristian's primary research interests are the health of sexual and gender minorities, particularly in communities of color. He emphasizes community engagement in his work, which includes HIV testing, behavioral HIV prevention, HIV care, and sex work.

Molly M. Pearson, MSW is a writer, educator, and organizer from Lincoln, Nebraska, now based in St. Louis, Missouri. She works with universities, non-profits, and cultural institutions to engage in critical dialogue on sexuality, culture, and systems. Molly is a professor at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis.

Hunter Scott, MA is an instructor with dual appointments in the departments of English and Social Transformation Studies at Kansas State University where he teaches courses on aesthetic interpretation and gender, women, and sexuality studies. His research cruises the intersections of race, sexuality, aesthetics, and the erotic.

Kim Anderson, MSW, LCSW, ATR-BC, REAT has over thirty-five years of experience as a clinician, supervisor, clinical educator and published author. Kim has presented her eclectic work to numerous local, regional, national and international events and venues, engaging her audience through compelling narrative, careful research, evocative experiences, and instructive storytelling. 

Kipp Ellis, RN is a registered nurse with experience in transgender health, reproductive healthcare, and pediatrics. They have a passion for education and community building and spend their free time organizing and attending transgender community events.