Angela Alba

&nbsp;Angela Alba is an artist, model, content creator, plant collector, and cat mom. She is passionate about body diversity and advocating for extended-size representation in media. Recreationally, Angela enjoys living her best beach life at the Jersey Shore but retains all the quirks and qualms of a stereotypical native New Yorker.&nbsp;

Jesi Taylor

Jesi is a researcher, writer, doula, archivist, and Zero Waste Consultant whose work lies at the intersection of Genocide Studies, Political Theory, Disability Studies, Black Feminist Ecology, and the Political Ecology of Waste. Her primary focus is the impact of waste-based structural violence on marginalized and criminalized communities. When their not reading or researching, they’re birding, dancing, or exploring local farms with their child.

Kanou Dia-Traore

I am a first-generation Senegalese-Malian-American born in Queens and raised in Jersey City. I&#39;ve always felt called to continue to evolve in the modeling industry. After years of studying Anthropology and Africana Studies while discovering my passions in yoga, reiki, and meditation, I decided to answer the call and pursue modeling as a full-time career. Now it’s my time to shine and live in my truth, being, and authenticity.

Libby DeLana

Libby DeLana is passionate about nature and exploring the world. She’s the author of the book This Morning Walk, which has sold 15k copies, and she’s currently writing a second book about the transformative power of walking. She is the co-host of a podcast about walking practices, and an instagram blog with 26k followers. Through her popular personal social media accounts, with 41k followers on Instagram, she’s a brand ambassador for Hoka and Fjallraven. She was a Design Director at MullenLowe for 15 years, and has spent 30+ years as an Executive Creative/Art Director. Libby is a climate change activist, who walked across the western part of Iceland to share films about climate change. She recently returned from a trekking trip in Bhutan, where she walked the newly reopened Trans Bhutan Trail. Soon, she will be traveling to Peru and partnering with G Adventures to bring attention to a more responsible way to travel.

Rachel Watson-Jih

Rachel is a Brooklyn based dancer and model. She is the founder / artistic director of an interdisciplinary arts collective: Blue Morph Collective, a member of an award winning dance theater company: Company SBB, and provides guided meditations through her YouTube channel: with rach. Modeling is an extension of dancing, and she desires to bring joy and positivity to every space she inhabits.&nbsp;

Sangeetha Santhebennur

Sang is a first-generation professional multidisciplinary creative from New Jersey. She moves intentionally through space challenging the norm of expectations and reality for Indian women in the arts. A model, dancer, singer, actress and every other facet of art she encompasses, Sang is grounded by the motifs of authenticity and storytelling.

Chelsea LeSage

Chelsea LeSage is an award winning actor, model, director, producer, and musician. She’s also a popular social media influencer, with 575k Instagram followers. Born and raised in Massachusetts, Chelsea grew up with a love for sports, animals and the outdoors. She attended Marymount Manhattan College where she got her BFA in Acting in 2014, and is now a Resident Artist of Stag &amp; Lion Theatre Company. She is a botanist, poet, and animal rights activist, who can sing and play five instruments. In her spare time, Chelsea enjoys playing and composing classical and folk music, reading, frolicking through Central Park, and playing with animals.

Chelsea Werner

Chelsea Werner is a champion gymnast and model with down syndrome. She has won the Special Olympics US National Championships four times, and is a two-time defending World Champion, hoping to continue her streak in her third World Gymnastics Championships this September. As a viral social media influencer, with 268k followers on Instagram and 72k on Facebook, she shares her messages of positivity, diversity, hope, and inclusion, inspiring others to go for their dreams and not take no for an answer. Werner has taken the fashion industry by storm. In the last year alone, she has modeled for Google Shopping, Microsoft, Tommy Hilfiger, Adidas, L’Oréal, Crocs, Keranique, Lightbox Diamonds, and Women’s Best.

David Hand

In recovery from a career in corporate communications design, David now points himself squarely at fashion, luxury, travel, beauty, and fitness, as an ambassador for aging naturally with vigor and style. He is a lifelong advocate for unity and the queer community and is ever ready to add some edge to bold brands.

Dynasty 

Dynasty/Andrew is a non-binary, first generation Vietnamese-American drag artist and fashion editor based in Brooklyn. With years of experience on stage, in front of the camera, and working for major fashion publications, Dynasty is passionate about telling stories focused on identity and expression as a vehicle for connection, empathy, and love.&nbsp;<div> </div>

Jjanga Horne

Jjanga has been pushing, representing, and advocating for change in the fashion/beauty industry for the last three years. Discovered by her Instagram, she’s quickly gained a community online that are excited to watch her journey and root for the representation she is bringing. Jjanga has captured the attention of many companies and moguls, walking and opening for Miami Swim Week, NYFW, and many more. She’s modeled for iconic brands like Tanner Fletcher, Savage x Fenty, Fenty Beauty, Marcella NYC, Hampden Clothing, Tyler McGillivary, and many more to come as she works her way to the top. Her goals are ambitious and high to many but to her their reality and works tenaciously to reach that goal. Jjanga is going to be the movement that shows being different and the odd one out of all the supermodels is just what the industry needed and is inspiring many others to accept themselves just the way they are.&nbsp;

Leah Vernon

Leah is an inclusive content creator, educator, and activist, looking to shake up industries that she feels have entirely missed the mark. She is an award-winning author, having written two installments of a dystopian fiction series and a memoir. With 63k followers on Instagram, she advocates for inclusivity as a plus-sized Hijabi model. Leah’s had many notable modeling projects, including a beauty campaign for Target, a commercial for FitBit, and a cover shoot for a Paris-based digital magazine, Vol·Up·2. As an activist, she often shares her story in interviews, with sources including The National News and JINS podcast. This summer, she launched her own new podcast called “Tea with Leah V”.

Mal Blum

Mal Blum is a critically acclaimed and internationally touring musician, with 45 million streams on Spotify, two billboard charting albums, and original songs in projects for Netflix, Hulu, Showtime and more. The transgender artist and advocate makes their mark through their creative work and on social media, with over 40k followers on both Instagram and TikTok. They have experience in acting as well, on screen and in voiceover, and are a SAG member. Mal splits their time between New York and Los Angeles. In their free time they enjoy reality tv, small dogs and poetry. Mal recently announced that they are currently working on a new album. They seek to be one model for learning to inhabit one&#39;s body in transgender adulthood.

River Gallo

RIVER GALLO (they/them) is a GLAAD award-winning Salvadoran-American filmmaker, actor, writer, model and intersex activist. Their film &quot;Ponyboi,&quot; which they wrote, directed, and acted in, is the first narrative film created by and starring an out intersex person in cinema history. Produced by Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson, Ponyboi premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. River has created branded content for Birchbox Beauty, Badoo, Maison Margiela, Youth To The People and has modelled for the 2019 NYC Pride Campaign. River was the cover star of 2019 F/W issue UK Hunger Magazine shot by RANKIN. They are currently developing their first feature film.

Veronica Campos

Jersey household, where streets sang bachata and salsa, and everyone on our block was “related” to an aunt or uncle from the Caribbean. I later moved to a new neighborhood, and that’s where everything changed. My neighborhood no longer resembled home, and my neighbors no longer looked like me. I was different. Growing up, I used fashion as a tool to stand out without the size of my body and complexion being the first impression. I learned to embrace my love for myself, my culture and advocate for a change in an industry I could only dream of being a part of

Yassa 

Yassa is a Syrian/Armenian illustrator, model, and activist born in the USSR and residing in NY. They are currently working with multiple sustainable businesses and nonprofits to promote ethical protesting and support BIPOC communities. Yassa is also a teaching artist that has spent years working with the youth, including helping kids develop and create plays in the Los Angeles School District. Their work, and social media influence with over 20k followers on Instagram, challenges conventional gender and sexuality norms as well as cultural systems. In their free time, they volunteer with an animal foster and rescue in Mexico. Their current projects include tarot card design, making furniture, home goods, and centering their mental health.&nbsp;

Bri Scalesse

Bri Scalesse advocates for disability representation in the media and air travel rights for wheelchair users. She’s a viral social media influencer, with 36k followers on instagram, and 470k on TikTok. After her time as a professional dancer with The Rolettes, she now teaches young disabled women modeling at The Rollette&#39;s yearly conferences. Bri also has an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Columbia University in New York City, where she now lives. Recently, she starred in the Academy Award and BAFTA qualifying film “As You Are”, about a young, queer, interabled relationship. She has modeled for Google, Victoria Secret, NARS, Sephora, UGG, Skims, Nike, Rimmel London, Urban Decay, Adidas, Tommy Hilfiger, Maybelline, and many more.