As a multidisciplinary artist, I experiment with technology to explore themes that surround being a Black woman in contemporary society. I am particularly interested in portraying narratives that depict lived experience, as well as representation of my culture. I first minted in February and because of NFTs, I’ve been able to create new friendships and join communities that align with my values, such as the African NFT Community and HerstoryDAO. I have spoken on panels at NFT NYC and Zoratopia (during Art Basel) about the barriers of entry that artists in Africa face when entering the metaverse.

Hi FWB! My name is Alex but you can call me Alex. I’m an artist and music producer. I had the honor of being part of SONGCAMP Elektra! That community has been my intro into web3. In addition to contributing to the Elektra DAO, I’ve been making my own music from a place of instinct and confession. This way of being helps me remember why I started making music in the first place. In February, I’m also looking forward to joining KERNEL05. Excited to share what I’ve been working on and meet everyone!

Thanasi is 19 years old, a Co-Founder at Civics Unplugged and a National Geographic young explorer. In November 2021, he co-built the Dream DAO, which has since raised over $200,000 to give diverse Gen Zers around the globe the training, funding, and mentorship they need to build in web3. Thanasi is also on the founding team of Aera Force, a 2000ETH venture fund dedicated to accelerating a sustainable future. He takes bribes in redbull and will never move from Queens, NYC.

Hi Future Friends! I wanted to share some of my talents with you all. I’m a maker of many things: apparel, footwear, fine arts, experiences, interior and textile design, etc. I want to help make FWB an Atelier. I attached a WIP of my latest piece inspired by Nyx, goddess of the night. I love astronomy and mythology and I use black women as subjects for my pieces. I also added a recent photo of me after my Nike x Serena Williams collection dropped. Find me on Twitter @thenamesbria_ if you want to learn more!

Camille Nibungco is a product designer, dj, writer, and ambient musician currently based in Seattle, WA Follow her on milotica.bandcamp.com or @camilleyonaire everywhere else. She's friendly and doesn't talk in third person in real life.

Christina J. Chua is Co-Founder and Chief Editor of so-far, a hybrid publication, gallery and artist incubator. Prior to founding so-far, she worked at galleries and art fairs throughout Asia representing and exhibiting a spectrum of emerging to blue-chip contemporary artists from around the world. As a writer, she contributed to various international and Singapore art publications. Today, Christina is committed to bridge-building in the Singapore art scene, while developing a new generation of art patrons through her fine art consultancy and education group, Metis Art. With her interests lying at the interstices of business, technology and contemporary art, Christina is also Strategic Advisor of innovation consultancy ArtBizTech.

The path to our Utopian future requires new social narratives, with raw af authenticity as the backbone of stories told. Our Art matters!! And the blockchain matters for artists ~~ just some thoughts. I'm Clear. I'm a 28y/o trans/non-binary singer and optimist ;; and it would be an honour to co-create the next frontier of culture w yall. (photo from a facetime w Raven...I was telling her about the NFT album I'd just finished visioning for 2022. Beaming.) What does it look like when fear is de-prioritized, and charting fresh terrain becomes the new cultural standard? Shall we find out?

I’m a self-taught multidisciplinary creative based in Nairobi, Kenya (East Africa). My design work is forward-thinking and introspective and often seeks to break old stereotypical narratives of my home continent and tell new African stories. I’m also an online educator teaching students around the world about graphic design and animation through my Skillshare classes. Previously, I co-founded the now defunct AfricanStockPhoto.com - a platform that sought to connect talented African photographers on the continent to buyers across the world. The platform had close to 300 contributing photographers and over 8000 unique images by the time it shut down last year.

Hello FWB ✊🏽 En here (know as Cult Leader En on twitter, pronouns: they/them) and I am jazzed to be a fellowship finalist. I am a community leader at Web3 Baddies with Clare and advocate for Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) within web3! I recently quit my job in chemistry to pursue web3 full time, so this fellowship would be a great way to enter the space. With the power of art and culture, I believe that blockchain technology can change the world by shifting humanity to a mindset of abundance and equity.

Hi FWB community! I’m a Brooklyn based creator primarily focused on music production and performance. That said I have a deep passion for creating strong visual elements to coincide with my musical releases. I’d consider my songs “R&B-adjacent,” but I’m always looking to expand my sonic landscape as I continue to collaborate with my live band and other producers. Excited to be a part of this space!

NYer now living in LA excited about collective decision-making, ownership, and sustainable creative practices made possible by web3. Seasoned Ops Director for startups and non-profits by day and producer/Ableton trainer by night. Queer, non-binary, Filipinx and always down for hiking, scuba diving, coffee, and synthesis.

Hi! My name is Jah. and I consider myself a multimedia storyteller. I use Filmmaking, 3D & 2D animation to covey my experiences in a creative way.

My journey as a professional musician became real through the relationships I built via Myspace. Web2 taught me that social connectivity can profoundly change the trajectory of everyone's lives involved. Web3 will undoubtedly replicate this experience exponentially. I’ve adopted web3 as a practice, learning it’s tools with intent to onboard my network of exceptional artists and creative thinkers who will thrive and even aid in the expansion of FWB into local charters. I’ve always strived to create with effortless intent, lead by example, and shift culture through shared experiences. FWB excels at this, so I know we’re a great fit.

I am a poet, writer, researcher, and internet explorer! This is to say, I co-founded and admin subtle asian dating, the world's second largest group for the Asian diaspora, and am an ordained minister, slated to officiate the wedding of a couple who met through the group in Texas, 2022! Over the last two years, amid the flurry of video calls, internet friendships, digital selfhood-performing, a lot of my personal interests and professional work centers around care and maintenance work, digitally diasporic methods of cultural disarrangement, SEO divination, and the ways we find one another on and offline. You can find me in the crowd of an upcoming show or at www.jyz.digital / www.twitter.com/fieldednotes!

Film Tech nerd, Kiwi, director, creative & ex agency partner, retired Dj submerged and surrounded by film, fashion, music, GCI and good mates. I live between Brooklyn, Mexico City and Sydney and work between commercial//fashion directing, 3D art direction and creative consulting. Always looking for new talent/creative faces, experimenting with creative technology and traveling to meet new people and embark on interesting projects. Client projects range from Tom ford beauty to Verizon, Tesla to Tommy Hilfiger fragrances. Biggest web3 project to date would be CHAKRATASIC. The lovely BLOND:ISH and I launched with a full takeover of the Margulies collection during Bitconference in Miami. We later auctioned an extension of the CHAKRATASTIC Collection titled: ‘Freedom 1+1’ at Sotheby’s in partnership with Burningman during the ‘Boundless Space’ event. Http://Knownfor.studio www.supplyny.com @jordaanjames @knownforstudio

I'm a DJ and creative/cultural producer in Toronto working at the intersection of music and community. I have a media background and have worked with many big publications/brands but founding a community radio station (IG @iso.radio) is the project I'm most proud of so far. I owe so much to the Internet—it got me out of my home town, gave me a career and helped me find my creativity. I'm keen to learn more about Web3, how I can contribute in a meaningful way and empower those around me. Thankful to be considered for this opportunity <3

Hello! I am KALEENA ZANDERS your everyday singing superhero. Aka the EDM Whoopi Goldberg. I am a singer, songwriter, filmmaker visionary & cat mom. Over the years I have become the go to house vocalist in dance music with songs you might’ve heard on the radio and at festivals all over. My voice is always lurking in a speaker haha. I’ve graced the covers of some of Spotify’s biggest playlists & “have had the opportunity to perform at Coachella, EDC, Snow Globe & many more. I also have a passion for placing my music on TV & Film with my songs being placed in in a Super Bowl commercial, US OPEN, a Marvel television show, videos games and more. I strive to be a part of forward thinking communities that focus on inclusion of all types of people especially BIPOC + LGBTQ being that I am both those things. I am so excited about the merge of art & music in the NFT space. It’s been great to see the empowerment & financial independence crypto & NFT’s are giving to artists. I seek to continue gaining knowledge and collaborate to help other people like me to move forward and thrive now and in the future. Thank you for your time :)

My name is Lauren and I'm a multifaceted storyteller from KCMO. I'm graduating from NorthwesternU this fall with a degree in film & entrepreneurship. Everything I do stems from the stories I possess and want to tell. I'm passionate about building new pathways + worlds through my stories and new tech so through film, photography, and creative entrepreneurship I feel the most liberated. I'm also the co-founder of Project FILO, a creative hub and artist incubator that is by artists & for artists. In web3, I have seen my desires and passions magnify for not only my art but the world. I'm a member of HerStoryDAO, Protein, and am currently working on another DAO.

Hi there, My name is Lien (Leviathe) and I am a queer Viet person living in San Francisco working in the music and science industry. I also am a really into extreme sports! Anyways I am working as an in-house engineer and manager at Different Fur Studios and Co-own a post production audio company called Liema. I am also working to reverse climate change through carbon capture with a group that is called Collective Carbon (fka flue carbon). I really believe in bridging music, technology, and science and am trying to find the best ways to do that. I research a lot of sympathetic resonance as a way to bridge this gap. Lastly, on my own I just make experimental electronic music under my name Leviathe. I really want to be involved in communities that are also involved in bridging different facets of creativity in a collaborative way. I do feel like as our technology grows, we need to make sure it remains equal, collaborative, and towards the path of shared growth.

Liz is an electronic music producer, composer, vocalist & DJ with 10+ years of music industry experience in performance, collaboration (Flight Facilities, Kimbra, Matroda) and releases (Dim Mak, Kitsune, Future Classic). She has a keen interest in analog synthesizers, sampling & beat-making. Currently based in New York, Liz has multiple artist projects under her belt (BRUX, Elizabeth Rose, Halycon Phase) and is gearing up for highly anticipated 2021 / 2022 BRUX releases with Deadbeats & Boysnoize Records.

Marco roso is a co-founder of DIS, a New York-based art collective (est. 2010). In 2018 the collective transitioned platforms from an online magazine, dismagazine.com, to a video streaming edutainment platform, dis.art, narrowing in on the future of education as entertainment. DIS enlists leading artists and thinkers to expand the reach of key conversations bubbling up through contemporary art, culture, activism, philosophy, and technology, with the aim to inform and mobilize a generation around the vital issues facing us today and tomorrow.

I'm a record producer, DJ, and chef best known for my work as the music supervisor of Broad City as well as for appearances on Vice News Tonight and Food Network. I'm also known for a truly killer sichuan-spiced fried chicken sandwich. In my work I have always been dedicated to highlighting unsigned artists and unheard voices that might fall through the cracks of the algorithm, and I remain 100% independent today from working with any mgmt / agencies / major labels etc. Very honored to be considered for this fellowship and eager to bring my work (+network) into this web3 future.

I'm a Designer / Artist / Web3 + NFT Educator who worked mostly in product and advertising as a Design Director & Strategist for Disney, Marvel, UMG, Heineken, Vice Media, Afro-Punk and the like. As an active member of the maker community since 2016 who is sponsored by The Home Depot and LIncoln Electric, I've spent the past year in the NFT space, hyper-focused on the intersection of the physical world and the metaverse. When I'm not asking the hard questions and holding public discourse around Diversity Equity & Inclusion and my mission to onboard 10,000 non "white guys" into web3 in 2022, I'm rallying the community to be more autonomous and sovereign by building in public. I’m currently Innovation Lead @Deadfellaz + Head of Community @ Steve Aoki / A0K1VERSE

I’m a hypnotherapist and energy healer. I founded joyspace.berlin, an intersectional collective of holistic practitioners and community activation space in Berlin. I also created nebula.garden, a publication showcasing projects at the edge of reality & decentralized utopian collectives.

Born in Paris, lived in New York for 12 years and now based in London. Background in online radio, artist relations and live production. Former station manager at The Lot Radio in NYC with stints at East Village Radio and Baby’s All Right. On a quest to explore how online radio, live music and the music industry at large fit in the Web3 space.

i’m a multidisciplinary artist & i founded a community care initiative. i write, compose, sing, & rap. i’m working to release a zine, my first collection of poetry/prose, & a mixtape.

Renata Morais is a Web3 researcher and creator whose approach bridges blockchain entrepreneurship and digital art curation. She is Associate Professor of Multimedia Design at the Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation and the founder of TapuyaDAO, which is currently being incubated at Kernel05. Her current creative and entrepreneurial mission aims to decentralize cultural expression, by connecting and empowering ethnic communities worldwide with blockchain technologies.

Sha Li @shali.eth is an independent curator. Her interests are decentralization + nature + creating alternative connecting structures in Web3. Before immersing herself in the crypto art communities, Sha has worked at various contemporary art institutions, curatorial projects, and a NFT platform. Sha Li has lectured at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK, and taught decentralized ways of co-creating/co-curating digital art at China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China. She holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art at Royal College of Art, London, UK, and a BFA in Film and New Media at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada. Sha Li is currently based in Canada, her time zone is MDT. https://shali.work/

Hi! I’m a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist based in Columbus, OH. I’m Afro-Caribbean American, a curator, a catalyst, and a huge advocate for equity and visibility for Black artists in the space.

Shu is a graduate from American Film Institute's MFA Directing Program. With a special interest in rebellious expressions regarding social and cultural norms and identities, Shu has created works that have been showcased at prestigious festivals and institutions around the world, such as Telluride Film Festival, Chinese Young Generation Film Forum, National Museum of Art in Mexico, National Film Archive of India, Jia Zhangke Art Center, among others. Shu is currently working on his first feature film, a Lovecraftian adaptation set in his hometown in China's industrial Northeast, as well as reimagining his various projects in web3 context.

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I'm a queer artist and designer born in Mexico, now in LA. I've designed for tech companies, nonprofits, indie musicians (i.e. Cuco), and lately been working on the creative committee of Web3Baddies. My art has been featured in local art galleries and most recently I launched https://calaveritas.art/ through which I'll be donating to RAICES. I've been learning about crypto & web3 extensively over the last year and I'm excited for the opportunities it can bring marginalized people. While societal issues prevail in tech, I'm determined to be part of the solutions and overall I believe the future looks bright✨

I'm a mixed Desi multidisciplinary artist and educator from Toronto now based in Oakland. In my primary practice I design and animate visuals for music rollouts and concert experiences. I also teach digital art and strategy articulation to youth and adults. I love speculative fiction, surfing, painting, and looking at flowers. I am deeply inspired by the unique visions of the artists around me, holding collaboration and collective elevation as core elements in my practice. For the next year, I'm focused on developing immersive and accessible web3 art experiences with and for both virtual and physical community.

I'm a Grammy nominated songwriter and producer, and have been making electronic pop music as Little Boots since my first release 'Stuck on Repeat' in 2008. My debut album was certified gold and reached the top 5 in the UK. Since then I set up my own label On Repeat Records and have released 2 more albums and various EPs independently. In 2019 I started Patreon channel which has now funded my fourth album due Spring 2022. I just released my first NFT via Catalog and am currently exploring everything web3. I'm particularly excited about the potential for independent artists in the space and would love the opportunity to connect with and become involved with the FWB community.

Growing up queer in Venezuela, I learned the power of a self-organized community to overcome social norms, power dynamics and disenfranchisement. This experience has shaped my belief that a synthesis of art, philosophy and technology is key to building sustainable communities around emergent technologies. Such synergies help us design tools and affordances for a more accessible, inclusive and equitable world. Ultimately, a community can only be as just and fair as its technology. http://booksfromthefuture.info/ https://publicfoundry.ai/