Kinjil Mathur is an active participant in the arts, with a career at the intersection of culture and technology. Most recently, she served as Chief Marketing Officer of Squarespace, where over eight years she built and led the global marketing organization, scaling the company through its IPO and into its next chapter as a public company. Previously, she spent a decade in fashion and retail, helping established brands navigate the transformation to modern commerce.

Today, Kinjil brings her creative thinking and business acumen to the worlds she cares about, including her work with the NYC Public Housing Community Fund and Search for Common Ground, as well as an ambitious project with Sotheby’s that brought her deeper into the art world beyond collecting. She and her husband were featured in Artsy’s 2022 collector list.

Her work with culture and community has been recognized with honors including Adweek’s Visionary of the Year and Top 20 Tech-Savvy CMOs, Forbes’ CMO Next, Ad Age’s Women to Watch, Business Insider’s 27 Most Innovative CMOs, Gold House’s Gold100, and Vogue India’s 50 Most Influential Global Indians.

Sadaf Padder is a Brooklyn-based independent curator and art advisor. Her curatorial practice explores migration, ecology, material histories, and cultural memory, with a focus on sustained support of artists and community engagement. As an art advisor, she has placed works, primarily by women artists, in private collections and institutions including the Baltimore Museum of Art, RISD Museum, and Northwestern University.

Padder serves on the boards of the Vera List Center and 12 Gates Arts and is a visiting critic at Columbia University. She was the 2026 Curator-in-Residence at Art Omi and has spoken at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art and Rutgers University. As a writer, she is a regular contributor to Artsy and Hyperallergic, writing criticism and artist features.

Melissa Joseph is a New York based artist. She makes needle felted paintings about family, history, materiality, and place. She intentionally alludes to the labors of women as well as her experiences as the biracial daughter of an immigrant in rural America and the cultural mashups of diasporic life.

Her work has been shown in museums and galleries worldwide, and she actively participates in artist residencies such as Dora Maar House, Greenwich House Pottery, Dieu Donné Workspace Residency, The Textile Arts Center, Fountainhead, the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, and the Museum of Arts and Design.

Her work is in the permanent collections of the Akron Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Ruby City, the RISD Museum, ICA Miami, and the Flint Institute of Arts. She is the recipient of the 2025 UOVO Prize by the Brooklyn Museum and a 2026 NYFA/NYSCA fellow in Craft/Sculpture.