Candy is an artist, designer, and urban planner who is passionate about redefining the ways we share information in public space to improve our neighborhoods and our personal well-being. As a 2011-2012 TED Senior Fellow and a 2011 Urban Innovation Fellow, she has been recognized as a leader in developing new strategies for rethinking the design of our cities in order to live our best lives. Fast Company named her an Emerging Master of Design and Oprah Magazine named her a "Live Your Best Life" Local Hero. She holds a B.S. in Architecture, a B.F.A. in Graphic Design, and a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from Columbia University.

James is a writer, educator, and designer. He attended the University of Michigan, Pratt Institute, and Tulane Law School. He has taught courses in design, research, history, and visual culture at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design, and he established several successful design programs for K-12 students in Brooklyn. In 2001, he co-founded Red Antenna, a creative studio in New York City. His first book, The Road to Somewhere: An American Memoir, will be published by W. W. Norton in August 2011. He lives in New Orleans.

Oliver is a designer, artist and composer. He holds a B.Sc in Computer & Video-Games from Salford University and a Master's degree in Music from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and he's designed everything from gigantic touch screens to tiny mobile gadgets. As an artist, Oliver builds installations and constructs sound toys. He has been exhibited at London's Design Museum, Helsinki's Taidehalli and Tokyo's Tama University. Oliver's music has been featured in numerous film, documentaries, commercials and exhibits. Stephen Fry described his music as, "Most marvelous. Melancholy, haunting and delicious."

Kristina is a multidisciplinary artist and designer with degrees in Fine Art and Epistemology from the University of Michigan. In Michigan, Kristina worked as a welding and metals assistant as well as organized summer youth art programs. Upon arriving in New Orleans, she worked with the VOODOO Music Experience's Art Department. She can be found volunteering at local shelters and playing any piano she stumbles upon. Kristina is also a devoted vegetarian, animal rights activist, and metalhead.

Alan is an urban planner, and has been involved in New Orleans’s recovery process since 2005. Consulting for both the public and private sector, Alan has advised numerous stakeholders on the changing economic, demographic, and policy conditions in the region. He has worked professionally to advance master plans, urban improvement districts, workforce development education, and clean-energy financing programs.  In addition to his work with Civic Center, Alan supports Reboot, a service-delivery design consultancy. Alan also likes advocating for better transit, teaching art to high schoolers, and swimming.

Ron Morrison is a research coordinator and print artist. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and graduated with degrees in Psychology and Gender Studies. For the past two years he has been working at Hagar's House, a transitional home for women and children. There he has been creating popular education pedagogies sharing radical gender and race based theory with staff and residents. He believes that people should have full participatory access to shaping their cities and communities and seeks to utilize information design as a medium for sharing available resources and deconstructing discursive power paradigms. He can often be found playing banjo on his front porch or buried in a book at Fairgrinds Cafe.

Erica is interested in studying architecture. She enjoys building houses on Sims 3 as well as sketching plans for ideas on how the ideal house should look. She's working at Civic Center to improve her knowledge of architecture and graphic design, and she plans to take photos of the different types of building styles throughout New Orleans.