Bianca Waked (she/they) is a Deaf Ph.D. Candidate at Cornell University's Sage School of Philosophy studying the intersections of ableism, audism, and anti-Arab racism. Born to a Lebanese-Quebecoise family, she is a former Telluride Scholar (CBTA19) and the recipient of both the Mike Yarrow Adventurous Education Award as well as the 2022 George Lincoln Burr Award. Since joining the association, she has served as a member of MBC. Meetings with Bianca must include ASL interpreters or captions. Bianca’s email is bianca.waked@tellurideassociation.org.

Aixa Marchand (she/hers) is a former resident of MBTA and lived in the house from 2017-2019 and was awarded the 2019 Gorge Lincoln Burr Award. She joined TA in 2019 and has since served on CBTA, CAC, Custodians, and the search committee for the new Executive Director. She is now an assistant professor in the educational Psychology department at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She is Haitian-American, born in California, and raised in Miami, Florida. Aixa’s email is aixa.marchand@tellurideassociation.org.

Krystal Chindori Chininga is a Zimbabwean entrepreneur and social activist. Krystal's education in economics, business, agriculture, and development sociology, combined with private and public consulting positions, has equipped her with a diverse skill set for strategy and impact. Krystal attended Cornell University in the United States, where she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in International Agricultural Economics and a Master's degree in International Agribusiness and Global Development. She has contributed her knowledge to several governments, NGOs, and international development organisations, leading teams of more than 60 worldwide practitioners.

As the executive chair and founder of Zimbabwe based development consultant firm Africentric, Krystal leads the way in creative solutions by blending commercial knowledge with an in depth understanding of the local environment to promote sustainable growth. She also runs her own commercial farm, leaning on her agricultural training. She founded the Krystal Chindori Chininga Foundation, an NGO committed to empowering young girls through education and youth arts. Krystal’s email is krystal.chindori-chininga@tellurideassociation.org.

Una Blagojević is a doctoral candidate at the Central European University in Vienna and a researcher on the project Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis at the Babeș-Bolyai University. Her doctoral research focuses on the intellectual history of Marxist Humanism in socialist Yugoslavia, and she is broadly interested in the social, cultural, and gender histories of East Central Europe and beyond. She was a Sidgwick-Miller CEU Scholar at the Cornell Branch of the Telluride Association (2021-2022), and she joined the Telluride Association in 2024.

Mira currently lives in a small hill station in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve, where she works for the a local NGO supporting community-led archival work with Adivasi-Indigenous communities, collecting oral histories of migration, developing decolonial pedagogies, and seeking to ameliorate human wildlife conflict. She is also a co-founder and worker owner for Glow and Grow, a fundraising cooperative that helps bring resources to small nonprofits within Alabama and other parts of the American South, and serves as a Board member for the Sand Mountain Cooperative Education Center, a Nunnian organization seeking to expand worker ownership through popular education and cooperative enterprise. She is a former member of CBTA ('20) and factotum for TASS-AOS ('23), as well as the recipient of the 2022 Dunham Award. Within TA, her past foci have included Inter-Nunnian relationships and the summer programs. In her free time, she enjoys growing things, reading, and connecting with loved ones—be it in the hills or across the ocean. Her email is mira.kudvadriskell@tellurideassociation.org