A Eulogy for Jane Doe Artists & Collaborators
Amalia Mora
Creator of A Eulogy for Jane Doe & Writer
Amalia Clarice Mora, PhD, is a Los Angeles-born and -based latine writer, ethnomusicologist, and creator/founder of A Eulogy for Jane Doe. Her first full-length play, “In Community,” was commissioned by BlackTop Gunn Theatrics: Teatro de la Calle. Her other creative writing, which often explores the relationship between music, dance, mourning rituals, race, and gender-based violence, has most recently appeared in the Altadena Poetry Review, LitAngels, FlashFrog, Sonora Review, and Terrain.org. She currently works at UCLA and at the University of Arizona, where she helped to establish the Consortium on Gender-Based Violence and teaches about combatting gender violence and healing through the arts.
Claudia Paraschiv
Lead Visual Artist
Claudia Paraschiv is an artist and architect. Born in Romania and raised in Los Angeles, Claudia now lives in Salem, MA, where she has served as the Public Artist-in Residence, as well as a MassCreative fellow. Her design practice, Studioful Design, takes on a varied constellation of projects for more meaningful living and engages people to participate in the transformation of their worlds as purposeful places of stewardship, democracy, social gathering, self-expression, and imagination. She has been the lead artist on A Eulogy for Jane Doe since its inception, drawing the items found on the women in gentle watercolor and within light, protective frames.
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Contributing Writer
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is the daughter of Mexican immigrants. She is author of Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites (Mouthfeel Press, 2023) and Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications, 2016). A former Steinbeck Fellow and Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange winner, she has been awarded residencies from Hedgebrook, Ragdale, Yefe Nof, Jentel, and the National Parks Arts Foundation in partnership with Gettysburg National Military Park and the Poetry Foundation. Her poem “Battlegrounds” was featured in Poem-a-Day, On Being’s Poetry Unbound, and in the anthology, Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World (W.W. Norton, 2023). She teaches poetry and creative writing at Antioch University and with UCLA Extension. Bermejo is the director of Women Who Submit. Inspired by her Chicana identity, she works to cultivate love and comfort in chaotic times.
Jaime Estepa
Contributing Writer
Jaime Estepa (they/he/siya) is a queer Filipinx American poet, playwright, emerging TV writer, and educator. An alum of the VONA/Voices workshop and the UCLA Professional Program in TV Writing, Jaime has also received fellowships from the Periplus Collective and Lambda Literary. During their time based in San Diego, they were featured for their work as a spoken word artist in the KPBS docuseries, “Out of the Boondocks.” Jaime is currently pursuing their MFA in Creative Writing at Antioch University Los Angeles.
Paula Williamson
Contributing Writer
Paula Williamson is a Black queer writer in the Bay Area. Her work has most recently appeared in Parenthesis, Manastash Literary Journal and the Chestnut Review.
Cathy Linh Che
Contributing Writer
Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025), a Finalist for the National Book Award, Split (Alice James Books) and co-author of An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books). Her video installation Appocalips is an Open Call commission with The Shed, and her film We Were the Scenery was shortlisted for an Academy Award and won the Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction at the Sundance Film Festival. She teaches as Core Faculty in Poetry at the low residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Antioch University in Los Angeles and works as Executive Director at Kundiman. She lives in New York City.
Georgia Berminghan
Contributing Writer
Georgia Bermingham Longwater is a writer and transdisciplinary artist (in the making) who works between Spanish and English. Through poetry, culled-image films, and sound collection, she explores knowledge production, meaning-making, and the relationship between aesthetics and ideology. Her practice centers on experimental processes that bring writing into contact with various materials and media. She lives and works in Panamá City, Panamá.
Jacqueline Rose
Contributing Writer
Jacqueline Rose’s poetry was included in the Pushcart Award-nominated anthology Future Splendor: Celebrating A New Renaissance (2022), published by Infinite Bee Publishing. The most recent inclusion of Rose’s poetry is available in Regeneration: Writings About Hope & Beyond (2024), an international anthology. She writes poetry and CNF and creates artistic photography.
Aissa Perico
Contributing Writer
Aissa Perico is a poet based in Fresno, California, and was raised in the Central Valley. She recently obtained her MFA in Poetry at Antioch University Los Angeles. Her writing navigates her Mexican heritage, culture, love for nature, and everyday life.
Yayra Sanchez
Contributing Composer and Vocalist
Yayra Sanchez is a Puerto Rican soprano who earned her BM and MM in Vocal Performance from the Boston Conservatory of Music. She has sung on some of the most prestigious stages, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, and The Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin, Texas. She is also a voice teacher, the co-creator and co-producer of the children's music project: Canciones, raíces y alas; and the creator and teacher of CRYA Canta, a music program geared towards young children (0-4yo). She is also a Global Ambassador for the Barcelona Festival of Song, an annual festival celebrating Latin American & Iberian Art Song in Spanish, Catalan, & Portuguese.
Simon Petty
Contributing Writer
Simon Petty grew up in Manchester, England. After reading English at Robinson College Cambridge, he pursued a life in songwriting, his band Minibar signing a deal that took them to Los Angeles in 1999 to cut their first record with legendary producer T Bone Burnett. Years of touring with artists such as Pete Yorn, The Wallflowers, Wilco and Crowded House eventually gave way to a more sedentary life in west LA, teaching guitar and Creative Writing with his wife Celia, with whom he now performs in the acoustic duo Petty Chavez. He is just about to receive his MFA in poetry from Antioch University, and his poems have been published by Slow Lightning Press and shortlisted for the Bridport and Fish poetry prizes.
Jolene Loveday
Contributing Writer
Jolene Loveday (she/her) is a writer and educator. She completed an MFA in poetry at Antioch University in Los Angeles. Her writing has been published in Canadian literary journals. She lives on the unceded and ancestral territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada).
Jessica Rivera
Contributing Architect
Jessica Rivera is an architect and designer whose work engages questions of land, culture, history, and the built environment. She holds a BA in History with a focus in Latin American Studies from UCLA and a Master of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Her international experience includes work and research in Chile, India, Mexico, and the United States.
Her graduate thesis, Havana Redux, examined the potential transformation of Havana’s urban fabric in anticipation of renewed global investment in Cuba, considering how architecture might respond to the social and spatial pressures of rapid economic change. More recently, Rivera has been a founding collaborator on Suelo, a regenerative land initiative in central Baja California exploring architecture, ecological restoration, regenerative agriculture, and resilient infrastructure as interconnected strategies for the long-term stewardship of land.
Rivera is the founder of OFICINA.LA, an architecture and design practice working across Los Angeles, Mexico City, and New York.