Product & Furniture Design 

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.

Mitzi Akaha is a New York-based actress with roots in the Midwestern US, Japan, and the central coast of California. After developing her career in Japan, she relocated to New York in 2014 where she continues to contribute her particular talents and peculiar humor to a variety of projects, starring in national commercial spots, music videos and films. She is also a published writer and illustrator and has multiple scripts in development.

Brooklyn based photographer, world traveler

Jason Koxvold is a creative director at StrawberryFrog, artist, and co-founder of Renegade Pencils, an organisation that helps give children access to a creative education. His work has been exhibited at MoMA, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, RESFEST, SXSW and the Los Angeles Film Festival. He has held creative workshops in Singapore; glued reflective balls to interns in San Francisco; spent hundreds of hours photographing landfills in Tokyo; driven an ambulance across Europe and Central Asia to raise money to build schools; raced motorcycles in the Scottish grand prix series; been interviewed by the Russian FSB in a holding cell in the Arctic Circle, and by the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Kentucky.