COLLABORATORS

Barrie Adleberg is an interactive producer, game designer and educator. Barrie has produced video games, mixed-reality installations, XR experiences, youth hackathons, community makerspaces, and game design programs. She has worked with brands across culture and the arts including PBS Kids, Activision Blizzard, HBO Max, and the Smithsonian Institution. Barrie is an Adjunct Industry Professor in the Integrated Design & Media program in NYU Tandon's School of Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Practice in Columbia University's School of the Arts Film program and Digital Storytelling Lab.

Co-Director of 4th World Media, Stina is a 6th generation Texan of Indigenous and European descent, living in New York City (aka Lenapehoking). She is a longtime post-production supervisor for commercials, film and television in addition to being an award-winning director of immersive media and podcasts. An early maker of Extended Reality (XR) immersive technology, Stina’s projects earned awards and funding from Samsung and Google as she broke ground in the field. As an active member of the New York film community, Women Independent Producers Org, and Indigenous Cinema Alliance, Stina has forged creative collaborations all over the world.

Artist and designer Korina Emmerich founded the slow fashion brand EMME Studio in 2015. Her colorful work celebrates her paternal Indigenous heritage from The Puyallup tribe while aligning art and design with education. With a strong focus on social and climate justice, Emmerich's artwork strives to expose and dismantle systems of oppression in the fashion industry and challenge colonial ways of thinking. Her artwork and designs have been featured in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, The Denver Art Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Vogue, Elle, Instyle, The New York Times, and New York Magazine.

Liana is Co-founder and Director of Programming at Relative Arts, where she curates exhibitions, public engagement, and collaborative projects that center Indigenous creatives. Shewey’s interdisciplinary practice explores Indigenous futurism, community storytelling, and family archives. Her work spans event production, installation, and public education in pursuit of building solidarity, reclaiming visual sovereignty, preserving ancestral memory, and celebrating Indigenous joy. She has presented at institutions such as The New York Historical, Hudson River Museum, Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, Cornell University, Columbia University, and The MoMA.

Toby Teitel is a filmmaker and a show runner, based in New York City and Buenos Aires. Toby utilizes emerging media such as Virtual Reality, Photogrammetry, and 3D Printing to create time capsules of the zeitgeist. This inclination towards documentation and inquiry has led Toby to pursue a Masters in Global Thought at Columbia University, where they will foster and promulgate conversations that will come to shape the discourse both online and in grassroots activist spaces.

Sutton King is an Afro-Indigenous leader, researcher, and social entrepreneur committed to advancing health equity. As a published researcher, her scholarship explores Indigenous evaluation frameworks, kinship-based methodologies, and the disproportionate impacts of systemic inequities on Indigenous peoples and communities of color. Sutton is the Co-Founder, President, and Executive Director of the Urban Indigenous Collective (UIC), an Indigenous-led public health nonprofit providing culturally tailored health and wellness services for self-identified Indigenous peoples across Lenapehoking (NYC) and the greater tri-state area. Recognized as a NYU Female Founder, MIT Indigenous Solve Fellow, three-time NYU Ignite Fellow, and David Prize Finalist. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, ABC, Vice, Science News, and AM New York.

Samantha Figueira is an east coast based Production Designer, Art Director and Art Coordinator currently working out of NYC. Her recent work includes the EMMY nominated The Drew Barrymore Show, and the GLADD and MTV Award winning HBO's LEGENDARY. Before working in television, Samantha was the Associate Prop Master for the off-Broadway powerhouse production of Sleep No More for 5 years. She then went on to co create, design and produce a multi-media, interactive art exhibition titled You Are Here, which toured several major cities across the United States. Samantha also helps to educate young designers with the celebrated company, Moonlit Wings Productions. She has been the technical director and a creative consultant for MWP for 10 + years, which has workshopped & produced over 55 world-premiere stage productions for young artists.

Sohini Paul is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working across physical and digital mediums. She creates objects, graphics, and immersive experiences that translate material processes into emerging technologies. Her work is shaped by an interest in craft, culture, and community, with a focus on how design moves between physical and digital contexts.