ISSUE II
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New York University, they currently work as an<br />
Electrical Engineer in Southern California. When<br />
not being coerced by capitalism, they spend<br />
their time cooking Chinese soups for their beloveds,<br />
listening to poetry podcasts, reading fiction<br />
that explores the emotional interiority of diasporic<br />
transience, and arguing about fruit. You<br />
can connect with them on Twitter @jooksingzai.<br />
Blake Levario is a Mexican-American writer.<br />
He is currently enrolled in New York University’s<br />
MFA program in Poetry. He reads<br />
poems for the Adroit Journal and is frequently<br />
being sad on Twitter @b_levario. You can<br />
find his words in or forthcoming from Hobart,<br />
Alien Magazine, Pidgeonholes, and elsewhere.<br />
Justin Lin is a senior in high school with research<br />
interests in the foundational science<br />
of deep learning as well as SoTA applications<br />
of computer vision in the context of robotics<br />
and medicine. He’s an incoming researcher at<br />
the Harvard ML Theory Group and Berkman<br />
Klein Center for Internet & Society. Currently<br />
he’s a researcher at the UCLA Visual Machines<br />
Group and USC IPILab with publications<br />
at SPIE and CVPR regarding computer vision<br />
applications. Furthermore, he’s founded RELU<br />
Labs as a part of his research into human-robot<br />
interaction and works on various aspects<br />
of public policy regarding technology. Outside<br />
of academia, Justin loves to play basketball,<br />
scroll through Twitter, and go on biking trips.<br />
Matt Mettias is a multimedia visual and sound<br />
artist from Stanford University, where he is also<br />
currently studying educational policy and conducting<br />
research in psychology –– which still<br />
nurturing his artistic hobbies and tendencies.<br />
Some of his favorite activities include ocean<br />
diving in Hawaii (his home), playing pickup<br />
basketball with his best friends, and producing<br />
music –– everything from boom-bap rap<br />
and ‘classical trap’ to the blues and reggae.<br />
Smiti Mittal, a rising sophomore at Stanford University,<br />
first started writing in order to process<br />
pain. She has dabbled in slam poetry, creative<br />
non-fiction and play writing over the years. Regardless<br />
of the form, she is most drawn to stories<br />
that investigate the human condition. When not<br />
lost in thought, she can be found reading, running<br />
single cell data analysis or curating playlists.<br />
Reach out to her at smiti06@stanford.edu.<br />
Eva Ojeda F. is a multidisciplinary emerging artist<br />
currently based in the unceded territories of the<br />
Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples,<br />
colloquially called “Vancouver”. She holds<br />
a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art+Design.<br />
She was born and raised in Mexico City and<br />
her background as a WOC sets her practice as<br />
an artist. Eva’s work varies from performance<br />
art to sculpture and painting, exploring the<br />
themes of the body, race, identity and feminism.<br />
Osadolor Osawemwenze is an incoming student<br />
at Stanford University and plans on majoring<br />
in Communications. With his interest being<br />
vast and wide, he also intends on engaging in<br />
courses in Sociology, African and African American<br />
Studies, and Studio Art Practice. His future<br />
aspiration is to become a Creative Director to<br />
develop brands to change the way we see people<br />
in the marketing world. Not only as numbers<br />
or consumers but also people with important<br />
experiences to take into account, to increase<br />
media representation. In his podcast, a coming<br />
of age, but irl, Osadolor comments on all things<br />
concerning today’s youth. Diving into social issues<br />
and tying them back to pop culture, he offers<br />
entertaining insight on trends, while relaying<br />
his experience as a black student at a PWI.<br />
Follow him on his socials, keep up with his podcast,<br />
and check out his art at linktr.ee/osadolor.<br />
Luis Peña is a gifted designer, art director,<br />
Photographer, DP, and Director. His gift lies in<br />
his ability to see the world in the wide-eyed,<br />
holy-shit-this-is-amazing way that mostly<br />
only children do. This sort of purity of vision is<br />
rare indeed, and it allows him to notice things<br />
most people miss - like the small fragments of<br />
truth, beauty, and the unexpected that make<br />
up great film. He also enjoys candy orange<br />
slices, running ultra marathons, and sprinting<br />
blindly along the very thin line between triumph<br />
and disaster - especially if he can film it.<br />
Emily Ren is a college freshman from Plano,
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