Mudang Jenn is a Korean American mudang and based in New York. Her work plays at the intersection of mythology and ancestral practice, and how these traditions continue to settle into the lives of diasporic bodies.

Marwa Abdul-Rahman is an artist and spirit worker, whose practices focus on deathwalking and ancestral healing. Her paintings and sculptures have been shown in solo exhibitions at The Box (The World, 2022), Wilding Cran Gallery (Eternal Return, 2019), and MaRS (Open That Shit Wide Let Me See How Big Your Mouth Is, 2016). She holds an MFA from ArtCenter College of Design and a BFA from Yale University.

Panquetzani breathes life into ancestral traditions, offering time-tested wellness practices inspired by Mesoamerican medicine + Mexican folk healing. She uses her sacred hands to heal via bodywork, traditional foods, + herbalism. Using inherited Indigenous knowledge from her Valley of Mexico and Northern Mexican lineages, Panquetzani has been serving her community since the year 2000. Since 2008, Panquetzani has dedicated herself to healing la matriz + disseminating Indigenous wellness practices, helping 3,000+ folks feel their wombs. In 2012, Panquetzani founded Indigemama: Ancestral Healing as a direct response to the womb wellness needs of her communities. Panquetzani provides online and in-person programs, healing services, + education worldwide. Today, Panquetzani has ushered over 10,000 BIPOC members through her online school, Indigescuela.

Duncan Ryuken Williams is currently the Alton Brooks Professor of Religion and the Director of the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture at the University of Southern California. Previously, he held the Ito Distinguished Chair of Japanese Buddhism at UC Berkeley and served as the Director of Berkeley’s Center for Japanese Studies. He has also been ordained since 1993 as a Buddhist priest in the Soto Zen tradition, served as the Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University where he received his Ph.D., and received Dharma transmission in 2024 at Kotakuji Temple in Nagano, Japan. His monographs include American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (Harvard University Press), the winner of the 2022 Grawemeyer Religion Award and a LA Times bestseller, and The Other Side of Zen (Princeton University Press). He is also the editor of seven volumes on race and American belonging or Buddhist studies including Hapa Japan, Issei Buddhism in the Americas, American Buddhism, and Buddhism and Ecology. His most recent project is the building of the Irei Names Monument, a memorial to honor those of Japanese ancestry who were incarcerated in America’s internment and concentration camps during WWII. He serves on the boards of the Yonex Corporation, a Japanese sports equipment company, as well as the Irei Project, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, the Japanese American National Museum, and the Asian Pacific American Religion Research Initiative.