Anil Bawa Cavia makes software at Last.fm and music for the Cacao sound project. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela and lives in East London, UK.
Antoine Blin is a bon vivant based in Paris, France. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the Nanobiophysics lab of the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris. His favorite book is The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman.
Matteo “il Rosso” Cantiello looks at massive stars. He is working on a Ph.D. in Astrophysics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, with a dissertation on Gamma Ray Bursts and supernovae progenitors and the evolution of their circumstellar medium (you can read his publications here). He is originally from Cecina, Tuscany.
Ask Talar Chahinian about narratives. She has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a dissertation on the Rearticulation of (national) belonging and the inscription of aftermath experience in French Armenian literature between the wars. Talar was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon.
Leila Chirayath Janah is the founder of Samasource, a social enterprise that helps marginalized small business owners in Africa and rural Asia by outsourcing IT jobs. Leila is a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Program on Global Justice. She also takes photographs of boxers around the world.
Daniel Costa is an environmental policy analyst at the University of California, Merced. In the past, he has held various positions at the United Nations and the Red Cross, as a legal researcher an consultant in the domains of international relations and migration.