April Hunt is a DJ and community-builder who uses music and media platforms as a tool for recognition and celebration. In 2011, she founded sparkplugPR, an agency that spreads awareness of projects with an emphasis on creatives of color. Since then, sparkplugPR has evolved into Mixtape, a catalyst for high-level creative happenings IRL and virtually where she often provides soundscapes. As a DJ, she has performed at a number of cultural spaces and venues including Aspen Art Museum, MoMA, the Guggenheim, The Shed, the Standard, and International Center of Photography, among many others. She weaves genres of house, hip hop, experimental R&B, and vintage soul.

Rashaad Newsome is an interdisciplinary artist whose work blends several practices, including collage, sculpture, film, photography, music, computer programming, software engineering, and performance. Using the diasporic traditions of improvisation and collage, he pulls from the world of advertising, the internet, and Black and queer culture to produce counter-hegemonic work that exists between social practice, abstraction, and intersectionality. His work reclaims the Black body, celebrates Black contributions to the artistic canon, and creates innovative and inclusive forms of culture and media. Newsome has exhibited and performed in galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals throughout the world, and his work is in numerous public collections.

Justin Gomez, also known as Legendary Monster Mon_Teese from the Royal House of LaBeija, has been in the ballroom scene for 19 years. Gomez is a professional dancer, vogue coach, and choreographer, born and raised in Brooklyn. He became known within the ballroom scene for a dramatic vogue femme style and has found an escape from bullying and other challenges through dance.

Precious is a key figure in the ballroom and kiki scenes and has been commentating performances and balls since 2008. Through experiences in these scenes, Precious has found a sense of belonging to an energetic community of free-spirited people.