Toya Lovevolution Ex
who was born, raised, and still lives in New Orleans, serves as organizing director. Toya currently organizes Project Hustle, a project geared towards uniting Black and Indigenous hustlers to use our collective wisdom, practices and potential to heal, build equity, promote the decriminalization of our survival and use popular education to build and develop an understanding of worker cooperatives and collectives as an alternative. Toya received even more capacity to move Project Hustle in 2020 when they were selected to be an Open Society Soros Justice Fellow.
Sarah Fouts
an assistant professor in American Studies at UMBC and director of the Public Humanities program, serves as the project director. Fouts is currently writing an ethnographic book project set in post-Katrina New Orleans. Her research areas are food, labor, and migration.
Fernando López
a Mexican-born cultural documentarian, serves as creative director. Fernando has helped organize and curate spaces dedicated to BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities drawing in hundreds of participants and facilitating the interaction between diverse groups of people and cultures.