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Hailing from a childhood background in theater and music, Sonia began her professional career in music archives and preservation in 2010. After kicking things off as an intern at the Sony Music Archives, Sonia worked her way up the historical preservation ladder by beginning as an Archives Coordinator and later Archives Manager for Sony.

Sonia's involvement with preserving the cultural legacy of music has a wide scope, ranging from document research on classical box sets to co-curating publications for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Sonia actively provides visual references for music related biopics (A Complete Unknown, Deliver Me from Nowhere) and also manages a division of Sony's digital library, which contains a massive collection of all music-related assets.

At the heart of her work is Sonia's belief that the integrity of the material must always be valued and unbiased. She strives to document and preserve music history with total accuracy and to honor the ways in which it serves as a profound fabric in society.

Kylie Miller (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based producer working at the intersection of podcasting, social media, and disability advocacy. She is the former producer of The Heumann Perspective, the Signal Award-winning podcast hosted by the late disability rights icon Judy Heumann. She has also worked on The Wheelchair Activist, Bare It All with Brittany Lo, and Reality Poets TV. Her narrative audio work has been featured on SXM's Atlas Obscura, The Climate Story Project, and the Silver Podcast Network, where she won first place in the Summer 2024 Sonic Dash. Kylie is a 2026 NYC Podcast Awards nominee, a 2023 Shorty Awards nominee, a 2022 Signal Award Gold winner, and a top-five finalist and Audience Award winner in Columbia University's 2026 Radio Race. Kylie holds a B.A. in Communications and Theatre from Goucher College and an M.A. in Audio Journalism from New York University.

Ariana Martinez (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and media educator roaming Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. Informed by their own experiences of neurological and sensory disability, Ariana experiments with alternative modes of narrative transmission, reception, and interpretation. Ariana has made documentary features and sound artworks for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3, and has worked as a sound designer and engineer for long-form narrative projects for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Magnificent Noise, Audible Originals, and others. They have taught media arts courses for Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts, CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism, The Salt Institute for Documentary Study, New York University, UnionDocs, and AIR Media's Sound Path.

Currently, Ariana works as the Program Manager at the Disabled Journalists Association. They are also the art director and among the co-founders of Sound Fields, a journal publishing critical writing about audio documentary in theory and in practice. Most recently, Ariana joined a collaborative research team of composers, storytellers, and engineers developing BLIND ENVY, a set of tactile tools to make digital audio recording and editing accessible to blind creators. This year, BLIND ENVY received a Magic Grant from the Brown Institute, a partnership between Stanford Engineering and the Columbia Journalism School.

Emily Ladau (she/her) is a passionate disability rights activist, writer, and communications and cultural access consultant. Her career began at the age of 10, when she appeared on multiple episodes of Sesame Street to educate about her life with a physical disability. Emily's writing has been published in outlets including The New York Times, CNN, Vice, and HuffPost and her book, Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally (newly revised in 2026), was published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. She has spoken before numerous audiences, from the U.S. Department of Education to the United Nations, and is the co-host of The Accessible Stall Podcast. Central to all of Emily's work is her belief that by sharing our stories and making the disability experience accessible to the world, we'll reach a world that's more accessible and inclusive for everyone.

Jillian Curwin (she/her), born a little person/person with dwarfism, has always lived in a world that was not necessarily designed for her. The daughter of two former prosecutors, she learned from the best how to advocate for herself and for others at a very young age, how to adapt in any space where she would often find herself being the first, if not only, little person to enter. She moved to New York City, found the disability community, and understood its power and resilience, and said enough is enough. She would make the industry see and hear her. Jillian started to write, became a content creator and started a podcast, Always Looking Up. The show is a space for Jillian to amplify disabled voices, give disabled people the space to tell their own stories, have conversations about the ways in which the world is not designed for them, and how they are trying to change it for the better.