Kiana "KC" Cook is a multidisciplinary artist, movement catalyst, and cultural producer rooted in Black American performance traditions. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Dance and is a GSI at the University of Michigan. For the past twenty years, KC has studied street and social dance cultures including Breaking, Krump, Hip Hop, Footwork, and House. Her practice weaves together curating, emceeing, battling, performance, and international exchanges, with experiences in Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, Jamaica, Austria, and Brazil. Her choreographic work and academic research have been featured at the International Association of Blacks in Dance Conference, Columbia College Chicago, Critiquing Power in the Arts Conference, the Hip Hop Studies Conference, the American College Dance Festival, and Performance Studies International. Her chosen home is Chicago where she produced Krump events for five years. KC is part of the Kautionz Krump Fam and the street dance company, BraveSoul Movement. 

Bonje Obua got their bachelor's in Spanish and Biology from Colby College in 2020. They then spent two years as a research assistant at the Belfer Center of Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA. Bonje is currently a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in the lab of Dr. Junior West. Their project seeks to understand the molecular drivers of the claudin-low breast cancer signature.

Chloe is a first-gen college student from Cleveland with research values in interdisciplinary collaboration, community-centered science, and collecting evidence for actionable interventions. Her primary research interest is how social structures shape the inequitable distribution of hazardous exposures from built environments. She will be graduating this spring with her Master of Public Health degree in Environmental Health Sciences, with a concentration in environmental health promotion and policy and a graduate certificate in social epidemiology. She began working with Dr. Payne-Sturges on the RESPIRAR project in September 2025, and will return this fall to begin her studies in the EHS PhD program! 

Camille is a master's student in Health Behavior & Health Equity at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health (Class of 2027). Camille earned her B.S. in Agricultural Business Management from North Carolina State University in 2024 with minors in both Agroecology (Sustainable Food Systems) and Economics. Currently, she is working to blend her public health training and agricultural background as a Graduate Research Assistant for the RESPIRAR project (focused on improving H-2A farmworker living conditions in MD), as a Student Manager for the U-M Campus Farm, and a Dow Sustainability Fellow. She has a passion for creating agricultural communications that help both growers and consumers better understand our current food system, and wants to help shape a more equitable food system in Michigan and beyond! 

Payton Harvey is a Master of Public Health student in Health Behavior and Health Equity at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and founder and CEO of EmpowHer Group LLC, a Detroit-based youth empowerment organization. Her work focuses on advancing health equity by creating community-based programs that build leadership, self-efficacy, and socioemotional well-being among adolescent girls through athletics and mentorship. Her project, EmpowHER in Action: Addressing the Socioemotional Needs of Adolescent Girls in Highland Park, MI, led by herself and her mentor, Dr. Asari Offiong, centers on developing culturally responsive programming informed by community voice and lived experience. Payton is passionate about translating public health training into sustainable, community-driven interventions that expand opportunity and improve long-term health outcomes.