Founder & Executive Producer

Ariane Michaud is a producer with over a decade of experience building and strengthening communities that support the arts and advance social justice.

Grounded in strategic planning, Ariane brings structure to complex creative projects while centering collaboration and shared vision. She is especially drawn to interdisciplinary work that intersects with technology and ambitious, experimental ideas.

Current go-to creative hobby: Pottery

LinkedIn: Ariane Michaud

Editor, Composer & Creative Producer

Daniel James (DJ) is a Music Maker, Podcast Editor, and Stage Performer. He loves making up songs, working with kids, and performing improv comedy.

A song that always puts me in a good mood: “Let’s Stay Together” by Al Green

Music: Spotify

Social Media and Brand Strategy

Alani Waters is an artist and creative brand strategist from Los Angeles who blends intuition, humor, and thoughtful strategy to bring dreams and visions to life in meaningful ways. An NYU Tisch graduate with experience across music, fashion, and entertainment, she’s inspired by connection and crafts visuals and narratives that feel alive and human—whether through performance on stage, on the big screen, or by bringing a little light to your small mobile screen.

Current go-to creative hobby:I am getting back into painting. It’s great to dedicate to a creative act that I don’t feel defined by. I am a messy, child-like painter - it’s freeing.

Website: www.alaniwaters.com

Creative Producer & Digital Archivist

Kate Gow is a Creative Producer, Senior Professional Services Consultant, and poet. A graduate of The Boston Conservatory with the school's first emphasis in Dance & Technology, she is passionate about centering artistic intelligence in tech spaces and served as CRCI's first digital archivist.

An artist I’m obsessed with lately: I haven’t stopped thinking about Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi since I picked it up!

Production Associate

Fynn Kugel is a multidisciplinary artist, producer, and playwright. Their art traces a fascination with the fragmentation of memory, the undercurrents of the unconscious, and rituals that open space for meaningful, collective repair. In parallel, Fynn works as a creativity and decolonial fundraising consultant and is a committed advocate for accessible, community-rooted education.

Current go-to creative hobby: making strange and twisted mash-ups with virtualdj (iykyk)

LinkTree: fynn.honest.ghost

Photographer, Videographer, Graphic Designer

Martin is visual media specialist, social media strategist, and public speaker based in New York City. He is currently a video editor at the NBA and working on restarting his passion project: the MEN CRY video series.

Website: mnbnyc.com