Shay Waugh

Shay Waugh (she/her) is a Jamaican-American photographer, director and archivist based in New York City. Her work captures cultural memory, sensuality, and belonging. Inspired by early exposure to her family's photographing habits, Shay’s work blends personal narrative with archival practice.

With a deep interest in public resources and accessible archives, Shay has partnered with institutions including the NYPL, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the International Center of Photography, and Little Caribbean NYC to create community-focused projects that use photography as a tool for education, preservation, and creative celebration. Her practice highlights the role of photography in preserving joy, lineage, and imagination across generations.

Cheyenne Ford

Cheyenne Ford (she/her) is a Production Designer based in New York City, and designs for both film and advertising. Her career began in her hometown of New Orleans after noticing an art crew making props out of dumpster diving finds for friends' passion project short films. Since moving to New York 10 years ago, she has worked as a Set Decorator and Art Director for film, television, and commercial productions before stepping into the role of Production Designer. Her eclectic art dept experience has influenced her design process on features such as Shiva Baby, Story Ave, and Miller's Girl. She now hopes to help the next generation of art department newcomers jumpstart their careers through Art Craft NYC, a new tuition-free Production Design training intensive which she founded. Art Craft applications are open to NY locals 18 and older regardless of education or experience. The program introduces trainees to the necessary conceptual and technical skills for Production Design, Art Direction, Set Decoration, and Props. In her spare time, you can find Cheyenne on her bike or at the movies.

Chanel Dupree

Chanel Dupree is an award winning Screenwriter and Director based in NYC. Her film “Next Stop” earned her “Best Female Director” and screened in over eleven festivals, both domestic and international. “Next Stop” is currently streaming on The New York Times rated streaming channel, "NoBudge". Chanel has written in several writers’ rooms, including her web series, "Black Retail" that earned her "Best Web Series" & "Best Comedy". Her feature documentary "You Think You Grown? Dismantling Adultification" premiered at the Apollo Theater and walked away with "Best Documentary Feature" and began its school screening tour this year with NYU. A winner of Spec that Scene, a finalist for Women Write Now, finalist of BLACK BOY/GIRL WRITES MEDIA and A fellow of BRIC’s Screenwriters Lab, Chanel’s work can be found in the HuffPost, NPR’s In Black America, ABC’s Here and Now and African Voices magazine.

Elena Rossi-Snook

Elena Rossi-Snook is the Film Collection Specialist for the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library. She has an M.A. in Film Studies and Archiving from the University of East Anglia and was the 2002 recipient of the Kodak Fellowship in Film Preservation. She has served as a curriculum consultant for the NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation M.A. program, on the Board of Directors of The Video Trust and of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and as the chair of the AMIA Film Advocacy Task Force. Publications include “Persistence of Vision: Public Library 16mm Film Collections in America” (The Moving Image), “Continuing Ed: Educational Film Collections in Libraries and Archives” (Learning with the Lights Off: A Reader in Educational Film) and “Don’t Be a Segregationist: Program Films for Everyone” (Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film). Elena’s documentary film We Got the Picture was an official selection of the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. Rossi-Snook also teaches film history at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y.