Carlos A. Martinez is Colombian-born environmentalist and photographer based in Jackson Heights, Queens. For the past five years, he has worked with Green Map System, a non-profit organization that promotes inclusive participation in sustainable community development worldwide, using mapmaking as its medium. As a photographer and educator, he has worked with the International Center of Photography’s Community Programs on their youth program at The Point in the South Bronx, National Geographic’s Photo Camp, and a photography program with youth transitioning out of incarceration in partnership with Friends of Island Academy.

Carlos will invite his local community to share their stories and personal journeys in a confessional-meets-photo booth.

Michael Premo is dedicated to documenting, portraying, expressing and celebrating voices from the so-called margins. Through various mediums he seeks to create a stage for the expression of stories from communities whose perspectives have been neglected and underrepresented.

Michael has collaborated on the creation and production of original work with The Civilians, EarSay, Inc., the Hip-Hop Theater Festival, The Globesity Festival: Hunger Strike Theater. He has traveled across the country recording and facilitating interviews for StoryCorps, a national project dedicated to recording, in sound, stories of everyday people, and StoryCorps Griot, an initiative to ensure that the voices, experiences, and life stories of African-Americans are preserved.

Michael will create a multi-media project using sound and photography to record the stories of communities fighting to maintain or obtain decent affordable housing.

Tracee Worley is a BedStuy-based guerilla artist, teacher, prankster and rabble-rouser. Drawing inspiration from The Situationists and other urban interventionists, her participatory art projects aim to creatively disrupt public space.Frustrated by the inability of her training in the social sciences to adequately capture the complexities of everyday life, she began using art as a means to shape the future with more powerful interpretations of the world.

Tracee will move magnetic poetry from the refrigerator surface to those of washers and driers.