Tiffany Huang is passionate about how art and design communicates small universal experiences, facilitates discussion, and inspires action for social advocacy. She has interned at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics and GOOD and worked on projects for UCLA Design Media Arts, the School of Public Affairs, and the Art|Sci Center, for which the Art + Activism poster series (in collaboration with Willem Henri Lucas and Everett Pelayo) won an AIGA award. A recent graduate of UCLA, her current concern is the education crisis, which she plans to explore and address with SUMMIT.

Ellen Keith holds a BA in Urban Studies from San Francisco State with an emphasis in Land Use Planning. She is currently pursing a Graphic Design BFA at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She sees design as a way to bridge her interest in urban development and the visualization of information. In her practice she strives to design pieces that serve to expand discourse related to conservation, education and the pursuit of happiness.

C. W. Moss is a person and creator who lives and works in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula (Los Angeles). He was born in Missouri and moved to attend Otis College of Art and Design - where he currently studies design. His favorite things include macaroni and cheese, tie clips, and mistakes. He enjoys learning about formal, technical processes for production. He firmly believes in the medicinal benefits of chocolate and sketchbooks. He is a romantic and believes in love.

A recent graduate from University of California Los Angeles, Pelayo has spent the past four years working and collaborating on cultural and community based projects for clients, including UCLA Arts, DMA and the Art|Sci Center. In collaboration with Willem Henri Lucas and Tiffany Huang, Pelayo received an award from AIGA in 2009 for their annual Art+Activism poster series. Rather than a ‘graphic designer,’ he likes to consider himself a ‘thinker,’ to give design meaning, depth and personality. Pelayo is interested in bringing graphic design back to the community while learning how to cut through the ‘visual pollution.’
After SUMMIT, Pelayo will be traveling up north to San Francisco, CA from Los Angeles, CA.

Indhira Rojas recently graduated from California College of the Arts where she completed the Graduate Program in Design. Her practice focuses on highlighting the role of the transdisciplinary designer as strategic thinker and mediator, who has the capacity to not only serve the traditional fields of design, but also areas of public service, policy and social justice. She believes in using design as a tool for transformation. Rojas also holds a Bachelors in Communication Design from Parsons The School for Design. Recent accomplishments include a summer internship at IDEO, a grant award from CCA Center for Art and Public Life, research contribution to the ACM Creativity and Cognition 2009 Conference and organization of design thinking workshops in the Dominican Republic, her home country.