Authors
Alex Stein is a recovering BigTech PM and a member at Arkive. He blogs about Web3 and the potential of online communities at Charterless.com.
Alexis Aceves Garcia is a trans writer, researcher, and facilitator living in San Diego, CA. Their poems have been featured on The Slowdown, beestung, rivulet, The Hennepin Review, Peach Mag, The Best of the Net Anthology 2022, Apogee Journal, and The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNext. Aceves Garcia is an incoming 3rd year in the MFA in Writing Program at UCSD where they are working on a hybrid manuscript about queering the family archive, trans temporality, and the expansiveness of t4t love. Follow them on Instagram @loveloaf_.
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Originally from Vancouver, BC, Ben Wilkins is a multidisciplinary designer based in San Francisco.
Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski are the founders of WAI Architecture Think Tank, a planetary studio practicing by questioning the political, historical, and material legacy and imperatives of architecture and urbanism through a panoramic and critical approach.
Emily Slade is Arkive's Chief Marketing Officer
Geoffrey Mak is the author of Mean Boys, a collection of personal essays and criticism forthcoming from Bloomsbury next year.
Isabel Flower is a writer and editor based in New York.
Isabel Flower is a writer and editor based in New York. Simon Wu is a writer and curator based in New York.
Jane Ursula Harris is a Brooklyn-based writer and art historian who has contributed to Artforum, Art in America, Bookforum, BOMB, Cultured, The Paris Review, Flash Art, Frieze, and the Village Voice, among other publications.
Jordan is the co-founder of Arkive, based in SF.
Kami’s career in the art world spans over 15 years, across the UK, USA and continental Europe.
Kelly is a Curatorial Advisor at Arkive and a decorated leader in the art world.
Mira Dayal is an artist, editor, and writer based in Brooklyn. She is the editor, with Josephine Heston, of Track changes: a handbook for art criticism, forthcoming from Paper Monument.
Olivia Ung is a tech communications consultant and member at Arkive.
Rebecca M. Alvin has been editor of the long-running weekly arts publication Provincetown Magazine since 2008. In addition, she has spent the past two decades writing about the arts for various other publications, including Cineaste, The Journal of Film and Video, Film & History, The Cape Codder, Cape Cod Magazine, Cape Cod View, The Independent, and Moviemaker. She is a filmmaker with three feature-length documentaries currently in distribution, and has taught film and media studies for The New School in New York City since 2001. A native of Queens, New York, she currently lives in exile on Cape Cod.
Ruth Gebreyesus is a writer and producer based in the Bay Area. Her work centers cultural production and consumption across physical and digital margins. She also serves as a co-curator of Black Life, a multidisciplinary art and film series at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.
Simon Wu is a writer and curator based in New York. His first book of essays, Dancing On My Own, will be out in 2024 with Harper Collins.
Terry Nguyen is a writer and critic based in Brooklyn. She is the senior staff writer for Dirt, a daily digital culture newsletter and a Web3 media company. Her writing has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Magazine, Vox, Washington Post, among others.
Tom McLeod is the co-founder and Executive Director of Arkive.