Anastasiia Fedorova is a senior insights editor at Canvas8. A writer, curator and cultural strategist, she specialises in art, fashion, design, technology and visual culture. Her personal work explores sexuality, identity and queer communities while interrogating our place in a world shaped by rapidly changing technologies. As an avid sci-fi fan since teenage years, she is always interested in thinking about multiple and diverse futures.

Shom Mabaquiao is the Insights Editor for APAC at Canvas8, where he decodes human behaviour across cultures, markets, and moral grey areas. A graduate student in Social Psychology at the University of the Philippines, his research explores stigma, folkways, and the psychology of everyday queer life. His bylines and insights have appeared in the likes of Singapore Business Review and Marketing Interactive, and he’s been quoted in publications like Stylist UK and Campaign Asia. Outside work, he writes personal essays on intimacy, identity, and quiet forms of rebellion, published in Tint Journal, Katitikan, and Adelaide Literary Magazine. He believes pop culture is sacred, rest is radical, and Hozier is better for your soul than any self-help book.

Ann Gabrielle Domingo is a cultural desk researcher at Canvas8. She graduated with a degree in Communication from Ateneo de Manila University, where she took up journalism and advertising tracks while dabbling in social sciences classes. Passionate about tracking Asia’s cultural shifts, she’s also written for the likes of Vogue Philippines, Rappler, and Neocha. She enjoys downtime with her Kindle, curating alternative music playlists, or discovering new hangout spots in Metro Manila.

Gilly Smith is an award-winning food writer and podcaster with a career spanning over 30 years. Her weekly podcast, Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith, features interviews with top food writers and covers all of life through the prism of food. A food podcasting pioneer, The delicious.podcast, which she produced and presented for Delicious Magazine, was the first podcast to be nominated for a Fortnum and Mason Award in 2017. She has written an array of books, mainly discussing the influence of culture on food in its various forms, as well as a number of articles for national titles and academic journals.