Velma Kee Craig is a Diné (Navajo) poet, award-winning writer, director of short films, and a textile artist and weaver.

Margaret Noodin is an American poet and Anishinaabemowin language teacher.

Two questions for Shelly Ruzicka, communications and development director of Arise Chicago...

Grant Troyer is a Chicago-based filmmaker, writer, and executive producer.

Joe Policastro, a jazz musician based in Chicago, gives a reading  performance of a poem entitled 'Home', written by Carl Sandburg, and  then matches it with a song from one of the most recent releases of the  Joe Policastro Trio, the band he leads as a bassist, composer, and  arranger, featuring guitarist Dave Miller and drummer Mikel Avery.  Beyond Chicago, the band has been extensively playing together  throughout the US and Canada having even performed for President Barack  Obama. The band's next live performance is scheduled on Saturday,  November 5, 2022, at Caffè Vivace, Coffee House, Jazz Lounge, on 975  East McMillan Street, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Asher George and his musical project known as Walcot started out in  Chicago in 2016. Asher is now based in Charlotte, North Carolina, but  plans on moving back to Chicago anytime soon to continue to pursue his  career as a songwriter and performer. ---

Fast is one of the founding members of the Fun Lovin' Criminals, a  New York City band, best known for hits like 'Scooby Snacks'.

Kim Campbell and Darcy Whitecrow are the founders of Grey Raven Ranch  on the Seine River First Nation, in Ontario, Canada, about 20 miles  north of Voyageurs National Park, in far northern Minnesota.

Quinquis, aka Émilie Tiersen, is a multi-disciplinary artist from Brittany, France.

Américo Mendoza Mori currently works as a researcher and teacher of  Latin American and Indigenous Studies at Harvard University.