Mikael Chukwuma Owunna (b. 1990) is a Nigerian-Swedish American photographer, Fulbright Scholar and engineer. His work explores the relationship between engineering, optics, the black body and queerness. Owunna imagines new universes and realities for marginalized communities around the globe.
Owunna’s work has exhibited across Asia, Europe and North America and has been featured in media ranging from the New York Times, CNN, NPR, and VICE to The Guardian. He has spoken and lectured about his work at venues from Harvard Law School to World Press Photo (Netherlands) and Sveriges Radio (Sweden). His first published monograph, Limitless Africans, was released in 2019.

Jari is a black genderqueer poet and scholar from San Francisco, California. They have received fellowships from Callaloo, Cave Canem, and Tin House. Their work has been nominated for Best of the Net by The Offing,and was a finalist for Columbia Journal's Fall 2019 Contest in Poetry. Jari's work has been published in The Adroit Journal, The Offing, Academy of American Poets, Callaloo, Columbia Journal, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Jari Bradley (MFA: University of Pittsburgh) is the current 2020-2021 First Wave Poetry Fellow at UW-Madison