Emily Cardenas is a student at San Francisco State University, specifically studying Journalism and minoring in American Indian Studies. Emily wants to uplift Indigenous voices and travel the world talking to Indigenous people. They enjoy reading and writing, preferably fiction, online. In the past, they have covered Japantown via blog posts and have experience with multimedia journalism.

Emily lives life through a viewfinder. She has a hummingbird superstition and spends most of her down time playing the mobile app game called Two Dots, she’s sort of obsessed. She eats a lot of hamburgers and pets a lot of animals when she can. She’s a sucker for museums, sports, chocolate and anything artsy that’s hands on. Her career goal, to put it simple, as the great Warren Buffett said, is to find a job that she loves so she doesn’t have to work a day in her life. She wants to be a great photojournalist, who is well-paid, so she may be able to live comfortably with good health insurance. Emily wants to be able to enlighten society in a more positive way through her photographs and storytelling. Dorothea Lange once said, “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” This is what Emily wants to embody and hopes she can do so in the field of journalism. You can find more of her work here.

Ximena Loeza (she/they) is a Latinx woman born and raised in the Bay Area. She currently serves as the Design Editor for Golden Gate Xpress' sister publication Xpress Magazine. Ximena enjoys writing about arts and culture and underrepresented communities. She has a passion for telling the stories of people who are not represented in the media. In her free time, she enjoys discovering new restaurants and bars in San Francisco and pottery.

Sebastian Miño-Bucheli is a photographer, videographer, and coffee enthusiast at the Golden Gate Xpress while majoring in Photojournalism and minoring in Latin American Studies. Previously a transfer student from Los Angeles Valley College, he’s now lived in San Francisco for three years but will always be a proud Angeleno (818 No Quema Cuh). Sebastian is an Ecuadorian-American who wants to focus more on his Latinx community to push representation.