MASON J., 
Interim Executive Director and Program Manager

Mason J. is a Black Latino and Native, Trans, Queer Femme, Intersex, Jewish, Disabled, and Low-Income 3rd Generation San Franciscan with a background in performing arts, youth education, historiography, public health and consulting. He has been involved with RADAR in various capacities since 2004, serving as intern, artist, and program manager.

By using personal and historical narrative as a means to elevate and ritualize the understandings of himself and RADAR artists, Mason's renegade leadership and innate magic aim to flip the narrative of what it means to create in one of the world's most misunderstood regions at a time of pandemics, housing and opioid crisis, political uprising, hyper-gentrification, and queer unrest. 

DENA ROD, 
Content Writer

Dena Rod is a writer, editor, and poet based in the Bay Area. They are currently the assistant creative non-fiction editor at Homology Lit. Through creative nonfiction essays and poetry, Dena works to illuminate their experiences of Iranian American heritage and queer identity, while combating negative stereotypes of their intersecting identities.

​LARAE J MAYS-HARDY, 
Event Coordinator, Sister Spit 2021

LaRae J. Mays-Hardy is a teaching artist, performer, poet, and activist based in San Francisco, CA. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy with a certificate in Theater and Community Engagement at Temple University. LaRae's life and work focus on Blackness, decolonization, grief, womanhood, love in all forms, and power. LaRae is in the early stages of her MFA journey in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, and she looks forward to more creative growth in the Bay Area.