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Cecilia Aldarondo is a director-producer from the Puerto Rican diaspora whose award-winning films have been featured on HBO, PBS, Tribeca, SXSW, and many others. Her feature documentaries MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART (2016) and LANDFALL (2020) premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and were co-produced by the PBS series POV. Her third feature YOU WERE MY FIRST BOYFRIEND had its World Premiere at SXSW 2023 and was co-produced by HBO. Among Aldarondo's fellowships and honors are the 2024 Borderlands Visionary Fellowship, the Guggenheim, a three-time MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the IDA Emerging Filmmaker Award, the New America Fellowship, and Women at Sundance. Her newest co-directed film DEAR MS: A REVOLUTION IN PRINT premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival and is currently streaming on HBO Max. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Cecilia teaches at Williams College.

Interdisciplinary writer/artist Cat Tyc reads tarot for guests on air and plays whatever she wants.

Cat Tyc is an interdisciplinary writer/artist who has three chapbooks: An Architectural Seance (dancing girl press & studio), CONSUMES ME (Belladonna* Collaborative), and I AM BECAUSE MY LITTLE DOG KNOWS ME (Blush Lit) and one full length book of poetry, XO (The Ether Agency). . Her most recent writing has been published in Maggot Brain, The Recluse, FENCE, and The American Museum of Paramusicology. She has presented and performed at the Microscope Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Brooklyn Museum, Hauser & Wirth, Kassel Fest, and the Synthesis Gallery in Berlin. She has directed music videos that have been added to the rotation on LOGO’s NewNowNext and MTVu. Her first solo exhibition, SIGNIFICANT OTHERNESS, was presented at Tanja Grunert Gallery in 2022. She has been granted residencies and fellowships at Signal Culture, The Flaherty Seminar, and Mass MOCA and support from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts. She lives in Hudson, NY, teaches creative writing at SUNY Albany and is currently training as an art therapist at the School of the Visual Arts.