A queer, multi-racial writer/performer, Jess Kim uses satire and dark comedy to question humanity’s obsession with maintaining social status in a world beyond our control. Whales could flip a yacht at any time! She won the 2022 SNL Award at The Groundlings, has written and performed in many a sketch comedy show, and accidentally organized Los Angeles rock climbing gyms into a union.

Joey Lattarulo is a writer and filmmaker from a haunted house in Oceanside, CA. After trialing lives from Neuroscientist to New Yorker, he moved to LA and found his way back to storytelling. In his work, he integrates his science background, life experiences, and passion for world-building. Joey believes tragedy and optimism are required to understand the crazy shit we call the human condition.

Kadi is an LA-based writer and self-taught animator originally from Harlem. Obsessed with stories, Kadi spent most of her childhood either drawing cartoons or fighting for the remote as one of nine children in a raucous West African home. Since then, Kadi has worked as an assistant on various scripted, news, and late-night TV shows like SNL. She is currently a creative department assistant at Netflix.

Saira Umar is an Asian American writer who combines her multi-ethnic background with her interests like reading, musical theater, art and psychology. The stories she writes have themes of identity, culture, family, and following dreams, set in a hopeful world.

Currently, she's a PA at Titmouse. She's written for PBS Kids and was a semi-finalist for the Disney & Universal Animation Writing Programs.

Samuel C. Spitale is a storyteller, screenwriter, and author of the graphic novel How to Win the War on Truth. Growing up gay in the Deep South, he enjoys writing fish-out-of-water comedies that critique society, often through a lone voice of sanity in an insane world. He’s a former Development Manager for Star Wars collectibles, a Moth Story Slam winner, and a one-time puppet show performer.

Da Eun is a writer of magical, heartwarming stories of eclectic households & communities. Before pursuing an MFA in Film & TV Production at USC, she was a software engineer at Google with a BS and MS from Stanford University. Outside of film, she hosted a weekly podcast called bamboo & glass.

As a queer Latina, Isabel's writing focuses on putting a satirical spin on coming-of-age narratives and social critique, drawing from her real life experiences. Most recently Isabel has worked as a Writers’ Production Assistant in a development room for Amazon, having had the privilege of learning from writers who have all lead their own rooms.

Renee Ross is a demisexual writer, performer, and fly auntie from Baltimore, MD. After working as a teacher, she realized that the same lessons she taught her students about following their dreams also applied to her life, so she began studying improv, sketch, and television writing. Her character-driven stories wrestle with themes of self-exploration, identity, and the art of the grind.

Aisha Rupasingha grew up in 10+ places on this planet--and has no idea what to call home. She's Sri Lankan-American, of Muslim and Buddhist heritage. Her stories are as nomadic as she is—rooted in many peoples, places, languages, and cultural nostalgias. She most recently served as a freelance writer and script coordinator on Wonderoos for Netflix Jr.

Jess is a mixed-race, autistic woman who is regularly called "sir" in public. She writes comedies about being a fish out of water, even when you're in the water. Jess pulls humor from her most traumatic experiences, from suing her powerful employer to that time in fourth grade when she got stuck in a baby swing during her sister's softball game.

Lindsey is an animator and storyteller. She is passionate about critical media representation and defying genre expectations. As a lifelong artist, she aspires to create the kind of diversity touted but too often unrealized within visual development, helping remind us that people don't need their differences to be the highlight of our films in order to be included in them.

Alan Niku is a writer and MFA filmmaker from the only Persian-Kurdish-Assyrian-Jewish family in San Luis Obispo, California. He has written and directed comedic shorts, music videos, mockumentaries, and a Bollywood-style action flick shot in the back-alleys of LA. His dozen feature and TV pilot scripts include an acclaimed comedic pilot about the daily life of a mohel, or ritual circumciser.

Angela (she/they) is a Mexican American writer whose stories are soaked in magic and center on themes of found family and beating the odds. They were recently staffed on Disney TV Animation’s 6-11 series PRIMOS. They've also written for PAW PATROL, RUBBLE & CREW, and AppleTV+’s STILLWATER among others. They co-edited an upcoming Latinx comics anthology, FROM COCINAS TO LUCHA LIBRE RINGSIDES.

Atif is from the Washington, DC area and was born to Moroccan and Jamaican parents. Atif’s stand up has over 200,000 streams on SPOTIFY. In terms of writing Atif was a writer for the CBS DIVERSITY SHOWCASE in 2018. Atif wrote the feature film TWICE BITTEN, that was released for streaming and theatrical in 2021 through BET films. In 2022 was a member of Warner Bros Discover Early Career Program.

Luna Vasquez is a queer, nonbinary Latinx born and raised in Houston, Texas by two poor, Salvadorian immigrants. Television, cartoons especially, helped Luna throughout their rough upbringing and Luna wants to help pay it forward for future generations of queer POC kids who also look to fiction for comfort and catharsis.