Team
ADMINISTRATION
Tempestt Hazel
Executive Director, Co-founder
tempestt.hazel@sixtyinchesfromcenter.org
BIO | Website | Writings
Jennifer Patiño Cervantes
Manager of Operations + Archiving / Poetry Editor
jennifer.patino@sixtyinchesfromcenter.org
BIO | Website | Writings
Kate Hadley Toftness
Chicago Archives + Artists Project (CAAP) Director
khtoftness@sixtyinchesfromcenter.org
BIO | CAAP Website
EDITORIAL
SENIOR EDITORS
Greg Ruffing
Senior Editor
BIO | Website | Writing
Noor Shawaf
Senior Editor
BIO | Writing
Reuben Westmaas
Managing Editor
BIO | Writing
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Christina Nafziger
BIO | Website | Writing
McKenzie Birmingham
BIO
Tim Hoff
BIO
DIGITAL EDITOR
Ryan Edmund Thiel
Website | Photography
SENIOR WRITERS
Notes: Each writer’s focus and expertise is listed, but they are not limited to those topics.
Emily Breidenbach
Arts + Culture Archives, Art + Design
BIO | Writings
Courtney Graham
LGBTQ+ Communities, Artists with Disabilities
BIO | Writings
Marya Spont-Lemus
Interdisciplinary Literary Works
BIO | Writings
Sasha Tycko
LGBTQ+ + POC Communities, Chicago Neighborhoods
BIO | Writings
Nina Wexelblatt
Art Book Reviews, Live + Performance Art, Chicago Neighborhoods
BIO | Writings
SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
Hannah Siegfried
Website
Ryan Edmund
Website
FEATURE WRITERS
Ireashia Bennett
Eliana Buenrostro
Amanda Dee
Noa/h Fields
Angelica Flores
Jessica Hammie (Regional, Champaign Urbana)
Rachel L. Hausmann Schall
KT Hawbaker
Stella Lee
Annette LePique
Alexander Martin (Regional, Peoria)
Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel
Anjali Misra
Chelsea Ross
Maya Simkin
Tamara Becerra Valdez
Jay Van Ort
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Ireashia Bennett
Mark Blanchard
Joshua Johnson
Sarah Joyce
Kristie Kahns
Chelsea Ross
Michael Sullivan
Edvetté Wilson-Jones
FEATURE ILLUSTRATORS
Jan Brugger
Kiki Dupont
Jenny Frank
Gretchen Hasse
Tesh Silver
TRANSCRIBERS
Sara Cortes
Noah Geraci
Gloria Gomez
Amanda Mead
Leslie Rouser
Marya Spont-Lemus
PAST SIXTY FAMILY
Editorial + Administrative Team
Toby zur Loye
Managing Editor
toby.zurloye@sixtyinchesfromcenter.org
BIO
Analú López
Archivist + Archives Liaison
alopez@sixtyinchesfromcenter.org
BIO | Website
Natasha Mijares
Writer; Art Book Reviews, Art + Design, Collections
BIO | Writings
Maddie Kodat (a.k.a. MK)
Writer; Live + Performance Art, Galleries + Artist-Run Spaces
BIO | Writings
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Envisioning Justice Residents
Ally Almore
Photographer at Let Us Breathe Collective
Website
Ireashia Bennett
Envisioning Justice Feature Photographer
Website | Writing
Miranda Goosby
Writer at LetUsBreathe Collective
Writing
Sequoya Hayes
Writer at BBF Family Services and Restorative Justice Court / Free Write Arts & Literacy
Writing
Sebastián Hidalgo
Photographer at Cook County Jail/Just Art/SkyART and Open Center for the Arts
Website
Anjali Misra
Writer at Open Center for the Arts
Website | Writing
Raelyn Purham
Writer at Bright Star Community Outreach
Writing
Eric K. Roberts
Photographer at BBF Family Services and Restorative Justice Court
Website | Writing | EJ Photography
Chelsea Ross
Photographer at Free Write Arts & Literacy
Website | Writing
Jordan Sarti
Writer at Cook County Jail/Just Art/SkyART
Website | Writing
Tony Smith
Photographer at Bright Star Community Outreach
Website | EJ Photography
Mike Strode
Writer at Circles & Ciphers
Website | Writing
Sasha Tycko
Writer at Free Write Arts & Literacy
Website | Writing
Edvetté Wilson-Jones
Photographer at Circles & Ciphers
Website | EJ Photography
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