Anna Phaidra is an award-winning artist and researcher specializing in illustration, woodcarving, installation, and visual design. Their personal work attends to living, extinct, and speculative beings through an interdisciplinary lens—bringing together historical symbolism and folklore with environmental humanities research. They hold a BA and BFA at Leiden University and the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague respectively, and are currently completing their MA project on geological worlding and unworlding at Humboldt University. They are one of the co-founders of Sassafras.

Hey there! I’m Anusha, a globally curious, purpose-fuelled individual. A social worker with a post graduate in international law by training, a non-linear professional who has held positions in NGOs, museums, schools and research forums in London, South India and remotely in Australia. Over time, I shifted my focus from classic human rights advocacy towards impact, change and creative practices. Currently navigating a career transition, I build and implement projects for structural change via my writing. I work at the intersection of feminism, human rights law and modern philanthropy. Drawing on my writing experience from my academic world, I focus on storytelling as a tool to systematic change that can be made practical from preventive approaches to global collaboration. My dedication to gender equity is also rooted in my heritage. Growing up in South India, despite a privileged upbringing, I grew up feeling pretty frustrated about how traditional gender roles oppress women and girls. Understanding these dynamics through a border lens shapes me to create changes.

Barra MacMahon is a web developer and musician hailing from the west of Ireland. He studied Contemporary Modern Music with a focus on vocal performance at BIMM Dublin before moving to Berlin and learning to code at 42 Berlin. In his spare time he plays guitar with Ruth Mac and enjoys tinkering with audio tech. His work blends his love for playful sound design and gritty guitar shoegaze music.

Gabrielle is fascinated by the things that survive empire: laws, institutions, stories, superstitions, and people. Raised in Trinidad and Tobago, her work explores the productive tensions between colonial institutions, legal frameworks, and governance structures on the one hand, and the everyday sociocultural practices through which people create meaning, belonging, and community on the other. Drawing on literature, oral traditions, folklore, and superstitious practices as archives of knowledge, Gabrielle brings these sources into conversation with scholarship on migration, citizenship, and land governance. Professionally, she has worked in the public sector, law, and international development, experiences that continue to inform her interest in the relationship between institutions, power, and everyday life. Gabrielle is Co-founder of Sassafras Initiative and leads Social Media, Branding and Promotion, a role that complements her broader interest in how ideas, identities, and forms of knowledge are communicated, negotiated, and reproduced across different social worlds.

Javiera is a history and social sciences researcher whose work explores themes of home, homemaking, migration, and belonging, tracing the emotional, spatial, and material dimensions of everyday life across borders. She holds a BA in History and is currently completing an MA in Global Studies, with a focus on homemaking among Latin migrant women's communities in Germany. Outside academia, she uses illustration as a means of exploring stories and experiences that often escape written language. She is one of the founders of Sassafras.

Kalifa Lovelace is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago whose work centers the Caribbean female experience — its loves, losses, and connections across the familial, romantic, and personal. Drawing on the rich landscape of Caribbean life, her writing moves between poetry and fiction. Her personal interest align with science fiction and speculative fiction as lenses through which to explore these themes. Her work has appeared in the First Nations Poetry Magazine, where her poem "Knots" was published, and in the anthology Tales of Root, Silk & Bone, which features her poems "Freedom of the Whore" and "The River Mother Repents Her Ocean Love." By profession, Kalifa is a legal practitioner in Trinidad and Tobago.

Malin works at the intersection of decolonial and intersectional feminist thought, with particular interest in sexual and reproductive health and rights. She holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Groningen and an MA in Global Studies from Humboldt University of Berlin, and has worked across NGOs and international organizations, including UNAIDS, on human rights and sexual and reproductive health. She also carries a strong regional interest in Latin America, having studied and worked in Colombia, Argentina, and Guatemala. Professionally, she works on public sector projects, particularly in climate while integrating feminist and intersectional perspectives into that work. Creatively, she is into all things textile, drawn to handicraft and textile art as sociological objects and to the forms of female community that build up around them. She joined Sassafras to channel her constant analyzing of the world into something more productive.