Intelligent Mischief
Aisha Shillingford

Aisha (Ish) Al-Harriyah (she/her), is an anti-disciplinary artist, world builder, and poet originally from Trinidad & Tobago. She is the Artistic Director of Intelligent Mischief. Her mixed media collages, text-based work, street art, murals, installation and experiential design work reflect Black utopias, abolition, Black radical imagination, solidarity economics, climate futures, marronage and dreamspace. She draws on recurring themes and symbols of fugitivity, opacity and afrosurrealism. She has been an Artist in Residence within Laundromat Project’s Creative Change Program, a mentor at the New Museum Incubator, and a Project Fellow at NYU Tisch Interactive Technology Program. She is committed to creating art, spaces, and experiences that inspire Black folks to imagine and co-create beautiful futures together.

Terry Marshall (he/him), Founder & Executive Creative Director, is an artist, writer, , cultural innovator, creative strategist and cultural studies scholar living in Brooklyn by way of Barbados and Boston. He has 25 plus years of experience as a labor and cultural organizer and previously founded the Hip Hop Media Lab and Streets is Watching. His work focuses on the intersection of social movement history and theory, transformative experience design, social scenes and the role of parties and festivals as drivers of social and cultural change. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab Civic Media Fellowship and an alumni of the Laundromat Project Creative Change Fellowship. He was a member of the design team of the Constellations Fund. Terry loves movies and comics and is a #WalkingDead superfan.