Amanda Sroka is a curator whose creative work focuses on global histories of contemporary art with a specialized interest in interdisciplinary practices that operate at the intersections of our political, material, and spiritual worlds. Since 2022, she has served as the Senior Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, where she organized the current Speaking in Tongues exhibition. At ICA LA, she has curated solo presentations dedicated to the work of Samar Al Summary, Carmen Argote, Jackie Castillo, Chris Emile and No)One. Art House, Liz Hernández, Will Rawls, Christine Sun Kim, Trương Công Tùng, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, and Alberta Whittle, and supported with Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses (forthcoming 2026), Raven Sanchez: Así Sea/So Be It (2026), Scientia Sexualis (2024), Barbara T. Smith: Proof (2023), and Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency (2023). She was previously Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where she organized solo projects with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Martine Syms, Zoe Leonard, Senga Nengudi, Marisa Merz, Yael Bartana, and Jitish Kallat, as well as group exhibitions such as Fault Lines: Contemporary Abstraction by Artists from South Asia. Prior to that, Sroka worked at the New Museum in New York.

Dr. Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander is an art historian, curator, and writer based in San Francisco, California. Born in Bangkok and raised between Thailand, Canada, and the United States, she brings a transnational perspective to her research and curatorial practice, which explores race, diaspora, spirituality, and migration. She is currently the Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, where she co-founded and co-directs the Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI) with art history professor Marci Kwon, one of the nation’s leading museum initiatives dedicated to the collection, exhibition, publication, and study of Asian American art. She has curated the nationally touring exhibitions East of the Pacific: Making Histories of Asian American Art (2022–26) and Spirit House (2024–27), as well as The Faces of Ruth Asawa (2022–), a long-term installation at the Cantor Arts Center. Prior to joining the Cantor, she was a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she completed her dissertation, Unaccountable Modernisms: The Black Arts of Post-Civil Rights Alabama. Aleesa received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2018. She is currently working on a major survey book on Asian American artists with Phaidon, to be published in 2027, the first comprehensive resource on over 250 artists from the 19th century to today.

Cara Megan Lewis is an artist and museum leader based in Los Angeles. She was a founding director of Bridge Projects, a former nonprofit curatorial platform exploring the intersections of contemporary art, spirituality, and religious tradition. Since 2022, she has served as Deputy Director of the Wende Museum—a role that, alongside her work at Bridge Projects, reflects her longstanding engagement with human rights issues, history, community engagement, and religious tradition. Lewis has supported artists for over two decades, beginning her career in 2002 at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco before earning an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts in 2007. As a practicing artist, she collaborates with her husband under the name Díaz Lewis and co-runs Studios Colíbri, an atelier in Baldwin Hills offering art classes and workshops for the local community.

Tyler Rollins is the founder and Executive Director of the Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts (FSA), where he leads efforts to cultivate meaningful dialogue at the intersection of spirituality and creativity. His work focuses on supporting artists and creating spaces for thoughtful engagement through exhibitions, conversations, and community programming.

A summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, Rollins earned a master’s degree from New York University and completed a graduate program at the London School of Economics. In 2008, he opened a public gallery space, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, in New York City’s Chelsea arts district, with a program focusing on leading mid-career artists from Southeast Asia. Widely acknowledged internationally as one of the most prominent and pioneering gallerists in his field, Rollins presented museum-quality exhibitions over a twelve-year period at his gallery, which was described by the New York Times as “one of the most reliably interesting spaces in Chelsea.” The gallery’s exhibitions often highlighted the links between spirituality, nature, cultural traditions, and varied forms of artistic expression, and many had powerful religious themes relating to Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism.

Recognizing the need for intentionally reflective spaces in the contemporary art world, Rollins founded FSA in 2021. The Foundation fosters and supports wide-ranging artistic and scholarly explorations of human creativity – from its ineffable sources, to its sustenance, and to its capacity to express shared human values. In his role as Executive Director, he spearheads FSA’s strategic vision, institutional partnerships, and community engagements. He works regularly with both art and faith institutions as a speaker, advisor, and thought partner.