Masaki Araya, a recent graduate with a Bachelor's of Art in Audio Arts and Acoustics from Columbia College Chicago, is a composer, arranger, engineer, mixer and producer. His love for audio documentaries began in his final semester at Columbia in fall of 2009. Since then, he has been creating audio documentaries off and on whenever and wherever he could. He is currently an audio tutor at Harold Washington College in Chicago.

Curtis Williams, a junior majoring in American Sign Language at Columbia College in Chicago, has been writing stories since the first grade under the pen name, “D.C. Williams.” J.R. R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, and Christopher Paolini, are just a few of the authors that influenced and inspired Williams into fiction. One of his goals is to write a book that others can enjoy.