Diane Burbie (she/her) is Managing Principal of The ASPIRE Group, a consulting firm specializing in equity, diversity, and inclusion, conflict resolution, strategic planning, and leadership development. She is an experienced consultant and facilitator working with a myriad of audiences throughout the US and beyond. Diane engages extensively in the arts and culture arena that includes projects with the Geffen Playhouse, East-West Players, Art2Action, LA Phil, The Ford Theater, LA Opera, Long Beach Opera, CMP (IL), Ancram Opera House (NY), Cornerstone Theater and Getty. Her work supports national arts collectives such as Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists (CAATA), Opera America, and the Directors Guild of America (DGA). Diane works with governmental entities and funders for the arts in Los Angeles County and the cities of Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Glendale, Pasadena, and West Hollywood. Additionally, she is consultant to the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance. She served as Vice-Chair of the Pasadena Human Relations Commission. Diane holds BA from Stanford University in Psychology and African American Studies, MBA from the University of Southern California and certificates in Negotiation (Harvard University Law School) and Managing Multicultural Work Environments (California State University Fullerton).

Taloo Carrillo (They/Ella) is a Chicana activist who has worked as a grassroots organizer and advocate for Indigenous repatriation and environmental issues. She is a singer, performance artist and writer who emerged from the creative cauldron that was Troy Cafe in Little Tokyo, downtown LA of the early 1990’s. Born and raised in Boyle Heights, at a time when many diverse communities co-existed and demographics were changing, Taloo is keenly aware of the need for cross-cultural connections and appreciation for diversity. Taloo feels that TeAda’s mission perfectly encompasses her values and provides her the opportunity to continue her advocacy work. Taloo also had the great privilege of working with Leilani Chan in the formative years of TeAda Productions.

Carolina San Juan (she/her) earned her doctoral degree in Culture and Performance from the UCLA Department of World Arts and Culture/Dance.  She offers more than 20 years experience teaching community-based Arts Education, Asian American Studies, and Women’s Studies at both CSUDH and UCLA. As an Arts and Diversity advocate she served two years as the East West Players Arts Education Director. She also developed programming as both an educator and administrator for the UCLA Academic Advancement Program (AAP), the nation’s largest university-based student diversity program. Carolina is currently the Interim Director of Arts Education for Center Theatre Group.

haejin bang’s (any/all/haej) cultural and community work is based within occupied Tongva land (“los angeles”) and Corea. born, raised, and rooted in central los angeles, they are committed to organizing and building around racial, class, disability, and gendered justice, bringing in their own experiences of being and growing up disabled+trans, unhoused, and working class to their creative work and cultural organizing. a culture bearer of both the 소리 (voice) and 북 (drumming) that make up 판소리/pansori, their transdisciplinary work continues move towards and build upon bodies of care -- committing to building and healing our relationships with our selves, each other, and the land. they were most recently a recipient of the culture bearer’s power building fellowship through the center for cultural power, a community artist fellow through the california arts council, and an emerge fellow with the longmore institute on disability – and now serves as the director of cultural arts and base building at the beverly-vermont community land trust in central los angeles. their work continues move towards and build upon inquiries: how can we create change in our communities through collective and cultural organizing, our connections to land/body, embodied listening – the sensitivity and understanding that these relationships invite and require?