Crystal Shelley
Chinese and Taiwanese cultures, being Asian American, woman/feminist, experience with hospice/end-of-life care, experience with those with Alzheimer's/dementia
Experience
Lived experience, social work career, and education
Reading Interests
Fiction
Sossity Chiricuzio
Fat, white, disabled, anxiety, depression, PTSD, dissociation, and eating disorders, non-binary/gender spectrum, queer identities, survivor experiences (sexual, emotional, and mental), communal living, and rural communities, poverty/working class experience, low income housing, and social welfare systems.
Experience
Lived experience, BA in Gender and Women's Studies/Humanities, and decades of personal research, lived experience, and grassroots activism on a range of relevant topics. Broad range of fiction, academic and business nonfiction experience.
Reading Interests
All genres welcome except horror, and I read and enjoy literature from all age groups.
Marcella Lopez
Mexican American
Experience
Lived experience, BA Psychology with minor in History (focus on Latin America), Master of Public Health degree (specialization in Health Promotion and Behavioral Science), editor, global travel, professional experience working in community-based health programs for the underserved.
Reading Interests
All genres welcome
Kimberlee Walker
African American woman/girls, Sexual assault and rape, Depression and Anxiety, Celiac Disease, Baldness due to alopecia, Black person in majority white spaces, Blended Family, Progressive Black Christianity, Interracial Romantic Relationships, Suburban Black culture, Performing Arts
Experience
Lived experience, Professional experiences as an actor working with writers and playwrights, former museum educator, teaching artist
Reading Interests
All genres welcome, except horror. Particularly fond of scripts, magical realism, and genre-bending stories.
Juno Baker
Black (African American), LGBTQIA+ (Transfeminine, Nonbinary, Queer, Lesbian, Asexual Spectrum), Disability, Mental Illness (Social Anxiety), Black in Majority White Spaces
Experience
Lived Experience, Experience as a sensitivity reader, Literary & cultural analysis courses, Extensive extracurricular reading in women's and gender studies
Reading Interests
All genres welcome, especially fiction
Jessica Wu
Chinese-American (bilingual Mandarin speaker), Asian American. Expertise in both mainland Chinese and Hong Kong culture, First gen immigrant American family.
Experience
Lived experience, professional experience with Hong Kong government
Reading Interests
All genres welcome
Gabriel Yuriria
Bisexual genderfluid, light-skinned brown Mexican, self-diagnosed autistic, as well as with EDS, depression, and anxiety.
Experience
Lived experience, text analysis courses, writing and crafting courses, study of literature politics
Reading Interests
All genres welcome