Famo Musa was born in Somalia and raised in Kenya. She is a photographer and a Youth Organizer with the Global ARC and one of the co-founders of City Heights Youth for Change (CHYFC). Famo is a community leader who has advocated for youth in her community for the past 10 years. She also works as a Teaching Artist at the AjA Project and does Poetry and Creative writing on the side. She is currently going to University of California San Diego for Literature in writing. Famo's artistic practice focuses on documentary and portrait photography with the emphasis of preserving memories within her Community.

Beto Soto is an artist, youth advocate and educator. His ongoing project Undocuqueer shines a spotlight on LGBTQ Undocumented Americans living in San Diego, California. Through his portraiture and use of lighting and props, Soto is able to create mystical landscapes that often portray his subjects as surreal. He is able to make his subjects radiate with confidence and perseverance. It is the hope of Soto to elevate the voices of this community, to advocate for himself, and others like him that strive to be visible, treated with equality and respect.

Alberto Javier Arreguin Villegas - born in Mexico City, in 1994. At the age of 12 Javier moved to the US as an undocumented immigrant, where he attended and graduated from Torry Pines High School in 2012. Years later at the age of 17, he was deported and forced to move bak to his hometown, Exatepex, Edo. Mexico. Javier found art to reclaim what he was separated from, his voice and community. His art has evolved to prioritize his family and communities oral history, as well as a meditative tool to make sense of historical events that have shaped his present. After four years of deportation, Javier came back as a “resident alien” to continue his Art and History education at Miracosta College. At last, his art now serves as a way to direct his own historical narrative and to create dialogue between lost histories and unserved groups within his community.