Lori Martin Brock is a writing consultant for the Salt Lake Community Writing Center. As a playwright, Lori often focuses on the many and overlapping issues of disability. Having had cerebral palsy since birth, and now facing new disabling conditions as she ages, Lori has a broad view of the cultural difficulties that the community deals with.

Jeffry Fields has been living with a rare, deadly, genetic, degenerative neurological disorder since she was 12 years old. It went undiagnosed for 20 years until she started to go paralyzed. Through the hardships experienced by this disorder and the systems that made it impossible to access treatment and resources, she has learned first-hand the struggles and injustices that are often suffered silently by people with disabilities, artists, and disenfranchised people the world over. How disability robs the voices and power of individuals in our society. How disability enables us to see the power and importance of the voices of every individual. And how society can empower the voices of everyone by listening and honoring and raising the voices of its most vulnerable.

Marilyn Melissa Salguero is a Disabled Guatemalan actor and poet who puts the SALT in Salt Lake City, Utah. She holds a BFA in theatre performance from Westminster College. Selected credits include Jaime in the world-premiere production of “Otherworld” at Delaware Theatre Company; Cat in Plan-B’s (Virtual) Elementary School Tour of “Presenting: Super Cat and Reptile Robot;” and “Princess Caroline/The Little Mermaid” at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Melissa’s work centers on her life, relationships, and identity. She has been featured in numerous publications, including “Write About Now Poetry,” “Ink & Nebula,” “Rising Phoenix Press,” and “Crêpe & Penn.” She was a 2020 nominee for the Pushcart Prize in poetry and a recipient of the Academy of American Poets student contest for 2020.

Emilie Starr is a neurospicy performer and patron of the arts. Through her work on accessibility communities and throughout her career in state government, she has learned to advocate for herself and others for universal design and creative inclusion.