Pablo Mora-Brito is a Venezuelan-Argentine artist, musician, and political scientist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

As Development Manager, Pablo coordinates global Hubs and leads fundraising efforts for ITAC, among other development strategies.

With extensive experience in team coordination, partner engagement, and project management, Pablo has worked on social development and cultural initiatives, from corporate social responsibility projects in vulnerable Venezuelan communities to cultural projects with Fundación Chacao and Fundación Cultura en Proyectos in Argentina.

In recent years, Pablo has worked in marketing, HR, and operations at companies such as Accenture, specializing in data analysis, planning, and client projects. As a drummer and musician, Pablo has released several albums and worked as a producer and session musician across Latin America.

Wéma Ragophala has worked at the intersection of the arts and community in New York City and in South Africa. She is a theater director, writer, performing artist, and community organizer. She directed Sankofa Project, The Homecoming Queen, Grown Adorable Adult, In Her Memory.  In June of 2024, she directed Nesting Doll at the National Arts Festival in South Africa. Wéma also wrote, performed, and toured her solo performance work, Roots, Rhythm, and Revolution, about an artist finding the courage to mobilize a movement for community empowerment. She has been featured as a StooPs Bed Stuy artist, and commissioned by Brooklyn Public Library to create works on arts and activism like,  Listen, and 900 Murmurs of Freedom, and Sounds of Freedom: a Juneteenth event.  Wéma is the founder of Bridges: A Pan-Afrikan Arts Movement, where she collaborates with South African Artists on events like; smallgirl rising: Connecting the Divine Black Feminine, World Poetry Day, Women on the Word Festival, and Amplify! Youth in Arts in Action, creating a bridge for international arts exchange and community advocacy. She facilitates workshops in libraries, schools, senior centers, and other community venues in NY and South Africa. She organizes and collaborates with various artists and organizations to support and transform communities through the arts. She has devised theater, poetry, music, and visual collaborations with artists from Brooklyn and the African continent. She is a lifelong resident of Bedford Stuyvesant and has organized events in her community like:  Arts Action for Sudan, South African Freedom Day in Brooklyn, and Pulse: A poetry and music offering at Restoration’s Billie Holiday Theater. Wéma is a staunch advocate for arts education and has worked for various non profit organizations as an Executive Director, Arts Education Director, Manager of Arts Education, and a Teaching Artist. She also provides professional development training for teaching artists, educators, and parents to support learners of all abilities in the schools and cultural institutions. She teaches a course called the Power of the Artists in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy at The New School. She taught a workshop at Penn State called Community, Collaboration & Arts Education. She is a 2024 Laundromat Project Create Change Fellow and is currently curating a monthly arts and community gathering, The Liberation Series. She is deeply invested in youth justice, disability justice, arts & activism, and fights to dismantle inequities, systemic racism, while building spaces where people of all ages and abilities thrive.

Inés Sanguinetti is a dancer, choreographer, and cultural leader dedicated to transforming education and fostering well-being. As the President and Artistic Director of the “Crear vale la pena” Foundation, she has pioneered the renowned methodology, Creative Environments-School & Community. Her mission is to empower change agents in formal education, mental health, and social engagement within vulnerable communities.

Jana Lynne “JL” Umipig is the Arts and Cultural Organizing Director of El Puente. JL is a cultural organizer, educator, multidisciplinary artist, embodiment healer, grief and death doula- integrating the arts and activism in her facilitation across the US and Internationally in detention centers, rehabilitation centers, community centers, schools, on the streets, on the land and the homes of those in need, for over 15 years. She has developed curricula to codify and ground pedagogical frameworks for the work of training, guiding, nurturing and growing other facilitators in the duty of Cultural Organizing, providing Education for Liberation, and diasporic Cultural Bearing including creating a Survivor to Leader curriculum for GEMS in NYC, being a founding organizer and trainer with the Global Justice institute at El Puente in Brooklyn training hundreds of teaching artist to integrate Social Justice in their classrooms, creating Decolonization School at the Center for Babaylan Studies supporting diasporic ancestral healing and as the Associate Director of Curricula at OF/BY/FOR ALL. She has supported peer mentorship and mutual support in the processes of training and organizing of other intergenerational and cross-cultural Educators, Artists and Healers throughout the diaspora in the pursuit of collective self determination and liberation.