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Celeste Betancur

Celeste Betancur (Composer and Artificial Intelligence Programmer) is a musician, digital artist and researcher from Medellín. In addition to her musical achievements, she has developed innovative software and hardware tools for artistic projects worldwide. She designs and builds expanded musical instruments, large-scale installations and sculptures. As a composer, she...Continued

22. Apr

Jessica Ramos

JESSICA RAMOS represents New York’s 13th District in the State Senate, which includes the Queens neighborhoods of Corona, East Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and parts of Astoria, Elmhurst, and Woodside. Ramos chairs the Senate Committee on Labor, where she’s fought to pass historic legislation to grant farm workers basic labor...Continued

22. Apr

Julie Torres Moskovitz

JULIE TORRES MOSKOVITZ, AIA is an architect and founder of Fete Nature Architecture, PLLC (FNA) based in NYC. She began working with SVP in 2015 to help envision an exemplary commissary for the street vendor community. Her firm FNA is a vital, collaborative architecture firm whose process is founded...Continued

22. Apr

Kelebohile Nkhereanye

KELEBOHILE NKHEREANYE (KELE) is a food street vendor, food justice activist, community chef and leader in East New York. Kele is an immigrant from Lesotho, Southern Africa, where she learned the values of street vendors as opportunities toward economic empowerment. Currently, Kele works as a Station Agent for NYCTA....Continued

22. Apr

Mohamed Attia

MOHAMED ATTIA is the Managing Director of the Street Vendor Project at the Urban Justice Center (SVP), a 2,800+ member-strong organization that champions the rights of street vendors as small businesses to earn a living and contribute to the culture and life of New York City. Attia migrated to...Continued

22. Apr

Jason Trachtenburg

JASON TRACHTENBURG is best known for his role as “The Dad” in the long running Off-Broadway and Indie-rock act The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. He has appeared on “Late Night with Conan O’Brian,” MTV, VH1, and is a multiple time award winner at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He has...Continued

22. Apr

Tiana Rainford

TIANA RAINFORD is Co-Project Director at East NY Farms! She is a CUNY Brooklyn College graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Food and Nutrition Studies. Her interests in food sustainability and how food politics and culture affect one’s access to preventative health care grew during her academic studies....Continued

22. Apr

Yolanda Tianyi-Shao

Yolanda Tianyi Shao is a Chinese creator and choreographer. She works interdisciplinary with animators, composers, theater directors, actors, film makers, sound designers and photographers. Yolanda has her own specific standpoint of art making. With her background of years of dance training, she lost her interest in pursuing simply beautiful...Continued

21. Apr

Paige Cowen

PAIGE COWEN is a gender-fluid, Brooklyn-based movement & research artist. They began training in Oklahoma under the direction of Kristin McQuaid, Joshua Stayton and José Antonio Checa. Paige continued their training in New York at Marymount Manhattan College, where they graduated with a degree in Dance Studies and a...Continued

21. Apr