✨ INKubator Cohort 1 - Fall ‘22 ✨

 

Presenting the 16 brilliant and energizing participants of INKubator’s inaugural cohort.

 

This group was selected for their unrelenting imaginations, spirits, and their big, bold, tenacious visions that will improve the well-being of their communities and our collective futures.

Participants hail from all over the globe, across many time zones, and bring with them intuitive, creative, relational and skill-based gifts that make them the stewards of these urgent projects.

Sabrina Pantal (they/them)

Project: La Semilla Del Sol

La Semilla Del Sol is a developing sustainable sanctuary and farm located in Costa Rica. This space is committed to being a co-creative world of healing, transformative justice, rest and play for black indigenous queer and trans folx

Aton Bridges (he, him, comrade)

Project: AGROWHOOD

AGROWHOOD is the species scale platform designed for Black community food justice and the elimination of centuries of self sufficiency degradation.

Stephanie Garcia (she/her/hers)

Project: AYUDA

Bridging the information gap between migrants and available resources via a chatbot.

Ellie Rha (she/her/hers)

Project: Witnessing & Dreaming

 

A 30-40 page hardcover photography book and digital experience that illustrates my identity and personal relationship to the Korean diaspora

 
A black and white image of Ariana. She has light brown skin, shoulder length curly dark hair, and is smiling with her mouth closed. She's wearing a light colored turtleneck and leather pants.

Ariana Faye Allensworth (she/her/hers)

Project:
Mapping Allensworth

A digital universe that tells the story of Allensworth, CA—the first town in California to be founded by and for Black people in 1908.

Sam has medium brown skin, long dark brown hair and is smiling with teeth. She is wearing blue dress with flowers.

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Project: Social Accessible Media

The disability justice approach to social media and communications!

Nikki Palmer (she/her/hers)

Project: We’re Not Outdoorsy People

An oral storytelling podcast, focused on collecting the stories and personal accounts of BIPOC voices to understand historical exclusion and feelings of unwelcome in outdoor recreation spaces. 

Gail Drakes (she/her/hers)

Project: Another World Parent Community

A dynamic online learning community for parents and caregivers who are committed to giving kids the tools they need to move us all closer to a world free of oppression and injustice.

Hawa Amin-Arsala (she/her/hers)

Project: WIP

 

A project that explores new cultural research methodologies that usher liberatory potential into kinetic reality. I am prompted to create this project because of the gap left by futures and trend forecasting industries that are rooted in extractive practices of data capture, surveillance and knowledge privatization / commodification.

Hawa is shown from the shoulders up in a black and white portrait. She is sitting in front of a brick wall with the splash of tree shadows across her face. Hawa is looking to the right and has her chin in her hand, pondering the future.
j. nyla is a Black and Pinxy (Filipino) person with brown skin wearing a yellow headwrap in a turban shape. They are wearing rainbow beaded earrings reminiscent of chackras or Orishas, a septum piercing with a chain, and in their turban are leaves

j.  nyla “ink” mcneill (they/them)

Project: Trans CARE Collaborative / DIY PhD

Cultivating an ongoing deeper (rather than “higher”) education toward contributing to a more affirming Black and brown, Two-Spirit, trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive mental healthcare via literature, peer coaching, and advocacy as an artist, community educator, and organizer.  

Zainab Kabba (she/her/hers)

Project: Muslim Women’s Salon

 

An intimate gathering of Muslim women from all walks of life who are interested in learning from and contributing to the development of practices that enable women to thrive.

Mangda Sengvanhpheng (she/her/hers)

Project: BACII

Focused on loss and grief in order to renew our engagement to life. Uplifting and centering healing and transformation for BIPOC communities through deep connection and empowerment.  

Nkem has dark, chocolate skin and long, dark braids. She is smiling with teeth. She is wearing a blue top with multicolored flowers.

Nkem Chukwumerije (she/her, they/them)

Project: Wellspringwords

Wellspringwords is a wellness platform and writing studio that serves to enhance the holistic wellbeing of women of color, first, through the cultivation of unique wisdom via intuitive writing, storytelling, and authentic creative expression.

Yusuf Siddiqui (he/him)

Project: Everything Between Us

A Collectible Card Based System created to  explore the cities and communities we inhabit! 

Aspyn Soul (she/her/hers)

Project: Production Company

A production company that creates and facilitates stories about BIPOC characters (and their friends) as they struggle through dystopian or simply politically complex worlds and the weird societies they engender. Mostly animated.

Saylem, a Black trans person, is pictured here in a Black and White photo. They are smiling, have their eyes closed, and are holding up a peace sign. There are checkered patterns on their shirt and on the background.

saylem celeste (they/them)

Project: Midnight Care Collective

 

A Black/Trans/Femme led community space, artist residency, and radio station centering the resilience of and promoting the continued livelihood of Black/Trans/Femmes (specifically in the Arts, broadly in their survival and thriving) in the city of Detroit and comrades beyond.