YuJune Park is a Partner at Synoptic Office, an award-winning design consultancy that works globally with leading cultural, civic, and business organizations to communicate ideas, build experiences, and cultivate new audiences. With over a decade of experience in creative direction, graphic design, and digital strategy, she leads the studio's vision and practice, transforming data into knowledge for diverse clients and contexts. She is a tenured Associate Professor of Communication Design at Parsons School of Design, where she teaches and researches global scripts, archives, and the manifold ways design can unlock human stories and reveal connections through language and information. Park's work has been recognized by Fast Company Innovation by Design, the Webbys, Design Week, the Art Director's Club, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. She speaks and exhibits internationally, most recently at the Biennial of Design in Ljubljana, the Ningbo Museum of Art in China, and at Palazzo Mora in collaboration with the European Cultural Centre and the Venice Biennale. In 2022, Park was selected for Creative Review's Creative Leaders list, which celebrates global leaders advancing their field.

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Hair artist based in Brooklyn. Founder of ROOM SALON NY 

I’m Verena Michelitsch, an independent designer and art director from Austria by way of New York City. I specialize in conceptualizing and creating unique visual expressions, spanning graphic design, art direction, illustration, pattern, editorial, and digital design. I’ve had the pleasure to work with an array of international studios and clients, including Apple, Nasa/JPL, Facebook, Red Bull, The Smithsonian and Opening Ceremony. I work from my studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Nate is an Animation Director and Designer in NYC.  His films which are at turns ethereal and poetic and then scientific and biographical, bring the intangible into focus. His short film Eli is playing at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, he has directed and executive produced an animated series for Facebook Watch, along with pieces for HBO, Adult Swim and NPR. Four of his short films are Vimeo Staff Picks. He is currently developing content for short and long form. Nate lives in Brooklyn.