Jordan Salcido is the County Youth Climate Commissioner with LA County and is hosting community gatherings on an imminent environmental justice campaign. She is using tools like Narrative Power Media Analysis, Battle of the Story, and Fairy Tales to envision innovative and cultural actions that put pressure on decision makers in LA.

Sarah Glover is the Director of Political Education & Research at Rising Majority for the Rising Majority and is integrating Story-based Strategy tools into political education and comms work of a Rising Majority to make more accessible political education materials for the broad coalition.

Jenica Garcia is a Filipino-American organizer with Lavender Phoenix. This year, LavNix (Lavender Phoenix) will launch a campaign, Care Not Cops, to call attention to SFPD’s rising budget. Jenica is using CSS tools to support art making and cultural production for this campaign that will launch during this year’s PRIDE gatherings.

k. rae (she/her) is a transdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and poet. She was a 2024 Liberation Generation fellow with the Center for Story Based Strategy and got her start in poetry with DewMore Baltimore on the City Wide Youth Poetry Team. She is the author of the interactive poetry collection a world for us and the chaplet (beamphrase)(circles). She spends a lot of time thinking about birds and other undisclosed topics.