Salma Amin is the co-founder of Andariya, a purpose-driven entrepreneur, and a leader in the marketing communications field. Passionate about storytelling and audience engagement, she excels at crafting research-driven strategies that amplify voices, ignite conversations, and yield significant impact. A staunch advocate for representation, she is committed to establishing platforms where diverse perspectives are celebrated and shared.

Ruba El Melik is a writer and researcher, and has contributed to the literary journal Mizna: SWANA Lit + Art as an editor and has written for publications such as Africa Is Now, poetry.onl, Acacia, Mizna, Sand Journal, and LOLWE. She is the co-author of (Un)Doing Resistance: Authoritarianism and Attacks on the Arts in Sudan’s 30 Years of Islamist Rule (Andariya, 2022), written alongside journalist Reem Abbas.

Ola Diab is a journalist based in Qatar, serving as the deputy editor of Marhaba Information Guide and the founder and editor of 500 Words Magazine, a Sudanese cultural publication. She has extensive experience in Qatar’s print and digital media, contributing to notable outlets such as Marhaba, Qatar Today, GLAM, and T Qatar. She has interviewed prominent figures like Sami Yusuf, Reza Deghati, and Amii Stewart. Her documentary The Unveiled won third place at the Women’s Voices Now film festival in 2011, and she is also known for Sudan: Divided Identity, Divided Land.

Anna Simone Ruemert is a political anthropologist and a gender studies scholar. She is currently a Crown Center Junior Research Fellow at Brandeis University. Prior to this, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at The New School’s Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cultural Anthropology, Mashriq&Mahjar, IJMES, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Merip, Rusted Radishes, Kohl Journal for Body and Gender Research, Jadaliyya, among other journals. She is currently working on two research projects in Sudan and Lebanon. Her first book manuscript Mobilized: Labor and Political Mobilization Out of Sudan follows Sudanese migrant workers in Lebanon and migrant returnees in Sudan following the 2018- revolution. Her second book project, Sex and the Civil War, examines the political economy of sex in the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990).

Qutouf Elobaid is a writer and curator with a special interest in the Poetics of the Archive. In 2016, she co-founded Locale, a platform to exhibit, design, and collaborate with Sudanese artists. She is the author of My Poets Don’t Die, an anthology in the New-Generation African Poets Series.