Jill Kolongowski

My name is Jill Kolongowski

Email: jill.marie.k@gmail.com

My pronouns are: She/her

I live in: South Bay

What I do / What I’m into: I'm a nonfiction writer (personal essays) and English/literature/creative writing professor!

Ask me about: Writing/editing, Event planning, Exercising/hiking, Food & cooking, Carpooling

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: I'd definitely be interested in learning more about the visual arts, marketing, and podcasting! I'm always down to connect with other writers, hikers, and foodie people, too.

Website: https://jillkwrites.com/

Instagram: @jillofdiamonds05

Twitter: @jillkolongowski

Bethany Kaylor

My name is Bethany Kaylor

Email: kaylorbe@gmail.com

My pronouns are: She/her

I live in: East Bay

What I do / What I’m into: Writing (mostly creative nonfiction; mostly reported essays and personal essays)! Also visual note-taking, animation, and drawing.

Ask me about: Writing/editing, Visual arts/crafts, Marketing, Pet sitting, Exercising/hiking, Nonprofits, Food & cooking, Carpooling, Gardening

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: Drawing! Watercolor painting. Color theory, drawing in perspective, you know, the works....I'm also interested in more tactile art, like lino-cut prints. (After so much writing, it's a real relief to just use my hands to make something). I'd love to chat with a trained graphic designer; I'm new to the field (by way of my job), and I'm so curious to learn more about the principles of composition and balance and typography and all that.

Website: www.bethanykaylor.com

Instagram: @kaylorbe

Molly Cahen

My name is Molly Cahen

Email: molly.cahen@gmail.com

My pronouns are: She/her/hers

I live in: San Francisco

What I do / What I’m into: I’m a comedy writer, screen writer and essay writer. I’m obsessed with Disneyland, I have an 8 month old baby and I love craft projects.

Ask me about: Writing/editing, Public speaking, Event planning, Film/TV

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: Meeting other parents, writing memoir, sewing (don’t know how would love to learn!)

Website: www.MollyCahen.com

Instagram: @mollycahen

Twitter: @mollycahen

Lauren C. Johnson

My name is Lauren C. Johnson

Email: laurencjo.writes@gmail.com

My pronouns are: She/Her/Hers

I live in: San Francisco

What I do / What I’m into: I'm a fiction and nonfiction writer with a primary interest in fabulist fiction. My novel-in-progress is a Gothic fairytale that merges fantasy with historical fiction.

Ask me about: Writing/editing, Event planning, Marketing, Pet sitting, Exercising/hiking, Music, Technology, All things related to birds!

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: I would love to learn more about sewing/ making clothing & learning to play the keyboard! I'm also always looking for indoor climbing buddies.

Website: https://linktr.ee/laurencjohnson

Instagram: @laurenc.johnson

Twitter: @laurenc_johnson

Vivien Sin

My name is Vivien Sin

Email: viviensinym@gmail.com

My pronouns are: She/her

I live in: San Francisco

What I do / What I’m into: I started The Third Place (thethirdplace.is), and am passionate about empowering local businesses. I'm also an oil-painter and media artist (vivien-sin.com), and love film and theatre.

Ask me about: Public speaking, Event planning, Visual arts/crafts, Technology, Running a business, Film/TV

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: I'd love to meet more artists in disciplines I am personally not a practitioner in, such as literature, music, poetry, and performing arts.

Website: vivien-sin.com

Instagram: @vivsinym

Twitter: @vivsinym

Stef Demong

My name is Stef Demong

Email: stefanie.demong@gmail.com

My pronouns are: She/her

I live in: San Francisco

What I do / What I’m into: I'm a freelance writer and producer. The majority of my paid work is in the non-profit/philanthropic/CSR space and I'm always working on personal projects as well. Outside of work, I love cooking, hiking, hosting friends, watercolors, my pup Rodeo.

Ask me about: Writing/editing, Public speaking, Event planning, Visual arts/crafts, Exercising/hiking, Nonprofits, Political organizing & activism, Food & cooking

Abi Ramanan

My name is Abi Ramanan

Email: abi.ramanan1@gmail.com

My pronouns are: She/her

I live in: San Francisco

What I do / What I’m into:
I write fiction, I volunteer/organize (particularly around homelessness/tenant organising)

Ask me about: Writing/editing, Public speaking, Event planning, Exercising/hiking, Technology, Nonprofits, Running a business, Fashion/jewelry, Political organizing & activism, Food & cooking

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: Writing fiction! Particularly speculative fiction which explores pressing issues of our era, like climate change, non-mainstream voices and experiences, I'd love to learn more about craft and world-building. I recently started sewing again and would love to learn about that, deeply interested in contributing to and participating in a new community, I started a food social enterprise in London... so cooking, different types of activism people are involved in, science, co-ops...

Website: www.papispickles.com

Twitter: @abilalayo

Kari Leibowitz

My name is Kari Leibowitz

Email: kari@karileibowitz.com

My pronouns are: She/her

I live in: San Francisco

What I do / What I’m into: What I do: psychology communicator (speaker, writer, teacher), writing a nonfiction book; What I'm into: pottery, cooking, hikes, my dog, house plants/light gardening, candles + coziness, reading for fun (mostly fiction), binge-watching TV, elaborate jokes

Ask me about: writing/editing, Public speaking, Password sharing, Housesitting, Exercising/hiking, Science, Food & cooking, Gardening

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: Finding my personal style (a quest I am currently on), cooking things I don't normally cook, clothing swaps, book clubs, jewelry making, exploring my artistic/creative side

Website: karileibowitz.com

Instagram: @karismatically

Twitter: @karismatically

Jolene Torr

My name is Jolene Torr

Email: jolenetorr@gmail.com

My pronouns are: She/her

I live in: East Bay

What I do / What I’m into:
I love to write. I work in publishing as the Assistant Director of Marketing at University of California Press. And I'm trying unsuccessfully to learn to play the guitar.

Ask me about: Writing/editing, Publicity, Visual arts/crafts, Marketing, Music, Film/TV, Food & cooking

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: I would love to join a writing group. It'd be fun to learn to make crafts or get together to draw or paint or make things out of clay, so I'm down for that. If I ever get decent at playing the guitar, playing music together would be cool. I'm a movie nerd, so I'd also love to have a group viewing session.

Instagram: @jolenethesong

Twitter: @jolenesbrain

Ash Huang

My name is Ash Huang

Email: ash@ashsmash.com

My pronouns are: She/her

I live in: San Francisco

What I do / What I’m into:
Fiction, jewelry/metalsmithing, graphic/product/user experience design, watercolor, knitting

Ask me about: Writing/editing, Public speaking, Visual arts/crafts, Technology, Graphic design, Illustration, Fashion/jewelry

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: Gardening, catching up on important film/books I missed, so much

Website: ashsmash.com

Instagram:
@ashsmash / @cormorant.jewels

Twitter: @ashsmash

Nicole Wong

My name is Nicole Wong

Email: nicoleemwong@gmail.com

My pronouns are: She/her/hers

I live in: East Bay

What I do / What I’m into: My day job is working at Spotify on the Podcast Business Operations team. I started my career in audio/podcasting in 2016 at Gimlet Media as an audio producer. Non-audio related: I'm into crafting (embroidery, polymer clay, collage), watercolor & pen illustration, mahjong, inventing new recipes out of leftovers, flea markets and learning new things!

Ask me about: Writing/editing, Event planning, Visual arts/crafts, Exercising/hiking, Nonprofits, Podcasting/radio, Food & cooking, Gardening

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about:
Bay Area/Oakland history, media studies, film/tv production, graphic design, political organizing & activism

Instagram: @nikiwongie

Twitter: @nikiwongie

Naomi Krupitsky

My name is Naomi Krupitsky

Email: naomikrupitsky@gmail.com

My pronouns are: She/her

I live in: San Francisco

What I do / What I’m into: I'm a Bay Area native who spent 10 years in NYC; my first novel just came out!; I love cooking, being outdoors, making friends with cats ;-)

Ask me about: Writing/editing, Publicity, Exercising/hiking

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: cooking, writing groups, your favorite hiking spots!

Instagram: @naomikrupitsky

Twitter: @naomi_krupitsky

Rachel Xiang

My name is Rachel Xiang

Email: rachelxiangg@gmail.com

My pronouns are: She/her

I live in: San Francisco

What I do / What I’m into: 3d illustration and animation

Ask me about: Visual arts/crafts, Technology, Graphic design, Illustration, Food & cooking

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: running a business, political activism, other types of crafting!

Website: https://www.rachelxiang.com

Instagram: @spookydaikon

Twitter: @spooky_daikon

Ubin Li

My name is Ubin Li

Email: ubinli.illust@gmail.com

My pronouns are: She/her

I live in: San Francisco

What I do / What I’m into: Illustration, Installations, Art

Ask me about: Visual arts/crafts, Graphic design, Illustration

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: Art, Gardening, Science, Writing, Fashion, Activism, Tech

Website: www.ubinli.com

Instagram: @pomperbee

Leigh Lucas

My name is Leigh Lucas

Email: leighclucas@gmail.com

My pronouns are: She/her

I live in: San Francisco

What I do / What I’m into: poetry

Ask me about: Writing/editing

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: reading, writing fiction, podcasting, publishing books

Website: leighlucas.com

Instagram: @leighlucas

Twitter: @leighluc

Amulya Aradhyula

My name is Amulya Aradhyula

Email: amulya.aradhyula@gmail.com

My pronouns are: She/her

I live in: San Francisco

What I do / What I’m into: user research, lifting, doula

Ask me about: Visual arts/crafts, Exercising/hiking, Technology, Political organizing & activism, Food & cooking

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: writing, making art, reading hard books together, creating and executing our own syllabus

Website: aradhyula.com

Helen Shewolfe Tseng

My name is Helen Shewolfe Tseng

Email: wolfchirp@gmail.com

My pronouns are: They/she

I live in: San Francisco

What I do / What I’m into: freelance design, making art and zines, reading and teaching tarot, observing coyotes, reading books, making and sharing food; currently learning gardening, creative code/computing, and ways to incorporate ancestral wisdom into my witch practice

Ask me about: Writing/editing, Visual arts/crafts, Technology, Graphic design, Illustration, Running a business, Podcasting/radio, Science, Accounting/finance/investing, Food & cooking, Gardening, tarot, witches, coyotes and wild canids

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: gardening, food and plant medicine, ecology, writing, making things with my hands and with code, multidisciplinary creative endeavors and collaborations, artist grants/residencies/opportunities

Website: http://shewolfe.co/

Instagram: http://instagram.com/wolfchirp

Twitter: http://twitter.com/wolfchirp

Daniela Blei

My name is Daniela Blei

Email: daniela.h.blei@gmail.com

My pronouns are: She/her

I live in: San Francisco

What I do / What I’m into: Book editing (mostly scholarly books; occasional non-fiction), writing for museums and non-profits/NGOs, and some journalism/I'm into food, languages, history

Ask me about: Writing/editing, Public speaking, Babysitting, Pet sitting, Housesitting, Nonprofits, Political organizing & activism

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: Politics: local + national; how to grow vegetables; finding accountability buddies (mine moved/got new jobs...sob)

Website: daniela-blei.com

Instagram: @dblei

Twitter: @tothelastpage

Vicki Lang

My name is Vicki Lang

Email: vickimlang@gmail.com

My pronouns are: She/they

I live in: San Francisco

What I do / What I’m into: For work, I'm a learning designer and with a psych and education background. At home, I do parenting, meditation, reading, running, puzzles, and music.

Ask me about: Event planning, Pet sitting, Housesitting, Exercising/hiking, Music, Technology, Nonprofits, Running a business, Accounting/finance/investing, Political organizing & activism, Carpooling, Gardening

What I'm interested in, or would like to learn more about: Interested in healthy simple living, intentional relationships, community care, co-housing, outsider art, intuition and alternative ways of knowing, absurdity/surrealism, consciousness/the hologram and how to balance being of use with being my own. (But I'm not an Aquarius or anything.)

Instagram: @harryhelpsthedancers