Foluke Taylor
Foluke is a therapist*writer, author, and speaker. Her published work includes two monographs; a biomythography How the Hiding Seek (2018) and her most recent book, Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room (2023, W.W. Norton, London and New York). She has contributed to a range of academic journals and edited collections including chapters in What is Normal: Psychotherapists Explore the Question (2020, Karnac Books), White Therapies + Black Identities (2021, PCCS Books) and Black women, trauma and therapy: Revolutionising therapeutic thought and practice (PCCS Books, forthcoming 2025).
Foluke has taught across a range of higher education institutions and is currently a CHASE funded doctoral researcher at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her research focuses on Black feminisms—engaging creative writing and Black feminist poetics to explore possibilities for therapeutic practice.
Foluke is inspired and energized by collaborative and collective projects and values opportunities to experiment across disciplines and co-create with others. She has worked with a range of artists (including practitioners of therapeutic arts), researchers and activists transnationally. This includes performance installations across Britain and Europe as part of an ongoing collaboration on Dr Barby Asante’s Declaration of Independence and within the film ‘daughter(s) of diaspora’ by Black-feminist artist-researcher Dr Nydia Swaby. Convinced of the importance of spaces that nurture emergent formations, Foluke is a big fan of dancefloors, living rooms, and kitchen tables

Jyoti M. Rao is a psychoanalyst and holds faculty appointments at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis, and The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Her publications, which explore the intersection between unconscious process and social phenomena, have appeared in the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies,  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Parapraxis Magazine, Room: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and elsewhere. She is in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.

George Makari
Historian, psychoanalyst, and psychiatrist George Makari is the Director of
the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, and the Arts, and Professor of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College, where for over two decades he has led efforts to integrate humanistic scholarship into mind/brain medicine and science. His latest book, Of Fear and Strangers:  A History of Xenophobia (W.W Norton, 2021) was the recipient of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize, the Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Prize, and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a Bloomberg Book of the Year. It was preceded by two widely acclaimed and award-winning histories, Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind (W.W Norton, 2015) and Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis (HarperCollins, 2008). His books have been or are being translated into eleven languages and their findings have been the subject of eight symposia. His essays have appeared in many venues including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Raritan, the New York Times, and the New England Journal of Medicine, as well as in psychiatric journals. The recipient of numerous honors, Dr. Makari was presented with the Benjamin Rush Award from the American Psychiatric Association. A graduate of Brown University, Cornell University Medical College, and the Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic Center, he is presently a Guest Investigator at Rockefeller University and a faculty member of Columbia’s Psychoanalytic institute. He lives with his family in New York City.

Francisco J. González is a psychoanalyst who helped found and co-directs the Community Psychoanalysis Track at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) in San Francisco which is spearheading a movement to bring community work to psychoanalytic training. He also conducts, teaches, and supervises traditional dyadic psychoanalysis at PINC, and  is on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. His writing focuses on the articulation of individual and collective psychic life, including in the domains of gender, sexuality, racialized difference, and immigration. He has been the recipient of the Symonds Award, the Ralph E. Roughton Paper Award, and co-recipient of the JAPA Award for the Best Published Paper 2019. He serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, JAPA, and Parapraxis and on the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis. He practices privately in San Francisco and Oakland and in the public domain at Instituto Familiar de la Raza in San Francisco.