Jade Oates, is a writer, poet and the editor in chief of The Mandarin, an online literary magazine based in California. Through the unique, personal and inspired writings shared in The Mandarin she has sought to cultivate and celebrate a New Romanticism, that is, the creative, individual, magically real, and yet naturally grounded landscapes of emotion experienced by humanity.

During her collegiate career she was recognized as Honors Scholar of the Year in 2017, and in 2020 earned her degree from Cal Berkeley. Professionally, she gives herself to opportunities in writing, editing, journalism, and publishing and is also interested in brand storytelling.

Jade believes in our outer selves reflecting and embodying our inner through fashion, color and words, in the light of wisdom, that art itself is the test of the artisan, in giving form to the invisible and invincible summer within us all, and in ever developing one's own personal magical realism manifesto.

Dr. Tracey Hunter is a clinical psychologist, relationship coach and Schema Therapy practitioner based on the Gold Coast of Australia.

She received your PhD in clinical psychology at Griffith University, Gold Coast in 2005 and made the Academic Excellence List for her thesis work. She is also author of several publications that dissect the relationships between child development, depression, and peer relationships.

Tracey's aim is to help people get in touch with disconnected parts of the self so that they can create inner harmony and thrive in intimate relationships. Through the experiential techniques of Schema Therapy, her clients are able to bring unconscious patterns and wounds into awareness, to heal, and to gain clarity about core emotional needs and values. She also focuses on women ready to step into their feminine power and create loving and energizing relationships.

Tracey believes humans are fascinating and resilient, that underneath our protective layers, we seek a more satisfying experience of life, and that one of the most important journeys we can take as humans is the exploration of the effects on our lives of the messages we received in childhood about love, connection, self-expression, and worthiness.

David Haines is a British/Dutch artist based in Amsterdam. He studied in London and Amsterdam and his mediums include graphite, paint, moving image, text and music. His work was recently showcased at the British Museum, in London and in the past has been shown in Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Estonia, Istanbul, HongKong, and New York.

David believes that drawing and painting are media that liberate the image from the dehumanized abstraction of its digital reproducibility, that there are deeply psychological reasons why we return time and again to singular images in our digitally saturated society, and that it is the handmade image, in all its materiality, that offers us the closeness we desire.

He values what he refers to as, the index, the mark we may, if we wish, leave behind, that is to say, our trace, those footprints on the beach, that smoke that signified our fire, the cave paintings, through the whole history of art, the singular experience and pulse of people leaving their trace behind though they are no longer there.