Carla "Kiki" Freiha is Executive Director at aec USA, a nonprofit organization serving marginalized communities in Lebanon, a passionate permaculturalist and now taking lead on Flux's edible greenhouse project.

Oksana Mironova was born in the former Soviet Union and grew up in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Flux Factory is excited to have Oksana working here as a Cultural Equity & Organizational Sustainability Fellow, under the Column Shifting program.

Gezi Cao is a writer and artist based in NYC. Her work spans a broad array of media—text, animation, water color, oil painting, and ceramic—that focuses on one central theme: the different ways that people experience loneliness.

Bronx native Richard (DJ Vinyl Richie) Nathaniel got his taste for music at a young age listening to records in the house and around the parties in his neighborhood. When he is not controlling a crowd he is creating and…

Jonathan Sims' uses brightly colored geometric abstractions and simple, minimalist symbology to evoke language and universal, ancient design.

a Philippine born artist living and working in New York City whose work ranges from painting, performance and community-based projects

Ashley Yang-Thompson gave up baking, mopping, and hula-hooping for pictures and bad poetry.

Razan AlSalah is a Lebanese-Palestinian media artist and cinematographer living and working between Beirut, Philadelphia and New York. She is a Fulbright scholar and MFA candidate at Temple University.

Chiang Kai-chun is a photographer and experimental film maker who combines anime and painting in his work. Based between Taiwan and France the artist explores the relationship between identity and travel.

Macon Reed works in sculpture, installation, video, radio documentary, and participatory projects to explore notions of belonging, the limits of optimism, and play as ritual transcendence from frameworks of evolving queer and feminist discourses.