Joël Barraquiel Tan (siya/he/all pronouns) is the Executive Director at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. He is the author of Type O Negative (Red Hen) and various works on identity, AIDS, and queer politics appearing in academic and commercial venues. Joël co-founded LA’s Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team Health Center and was the Director of Community Engagement at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from 2004-2015. Before coming to the Wing Luke Museum, he lived on Hawai’i Island. He helped develop Vibrant Hawai’i, a network of cross-sector leadership working together to connect Hawai’i citizens to needed resources.

Linda Chavez-Lowry‘s creative energy, enterprising spirit, and passion for the arts are evident in her role as Director of Opportunities at Seattle Magazine, her focus on enhancing relationships through connecting community leaders with the private and non-profit sector, and her active participation on advisory boards and committees that work for a diverse, and equitable community. Linda founded the Art Committee at the Columbia Tower Club in 2010, where she has been part of a passionate group that has promoted community engagement of the arts. Linda studied at Chapman University where she was a collegiate athlete in Women’s soccer and received her BA in Political Science/International Law. She is active in the Executive Advisory Council for Providence O ’Christmas Trees and Chair of the DEI Committee at the Women’s University Club. Linda also embraces opportunities to assist like-minded entrepreneurial efforts and women in business and currently serves on the advisory board for PartnerTap. In 2021, Linda was recognized and awarded the “Hometown Hero” award by the Seattle Mariners, for her philanthropic work at Bloodworks NW during the COVID-19 pandemic. Linda is also a stroke and brain aneurysm survivor, and her story of strength and resilience has been featured in the 50/50 Friendship Flow, Ask Yourself This by Shari Leid and on several podcasts, including “Power Moment” with Paula Lamas. She is also part of an all-women’s sailing team.

Diana (Dhyana) Garcia is an International Butoh performer based in Seattle and a holistic movement specialist whose work and research centers on dance and movement as healing and transformative practices. She is co-founder of DAIPANbutoh Collective, former dance faculty at the University of Washington, and owner of Meditation in Motion Pilates and Yoga and Breathing Room Studio in Seattle. She has more than 30 years performing nationally and internationally in Mexico, Ecuador, Chile, Japan, South Korea, Canada, and the United States. During her professional ballet and modern dance career, she performed with the National Ballet of Mexico, Luna Negra Dance Theater and The Chicago Moving Company in Chicago, and The Chamber Dance Company and BQDanza in Seattle. As butoh artist, her solo and collaborative work has been presented in Seattle, New York City, and Minneapolis in the U.S. and Seoul, Korea, Kyoto, Japan, Toronto, Canada, Santiago, Chile and Mexico City. You can find Dhyana teaching Pilates and yoga at meditationinmotiontoday.com.

Megan Kiskaddon is Executive Director of On the Boards, Seattle’s home for contemporary performance. Previously, she was interim Chief Education and Community Engagement Officer at SFMOMA, where she oversaw artist-driven, socially engaged, discursively-inclined, and educationally-focused initiatives. She served for several years on the Advisory Board for Emerging Arts Professionals, an equity-centered organization focused on empowerment and leadership in the arts. She holds a BA in Sociology from Mills College, an MA from the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University, and is an alumna of the NextGen Getty Leadership Institute for executive education.