### Editorial team %% DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ```dataview list summary from #voc AND #author ``` %% - [[Weft/Authors/Sharon Tsang-de Lyster.md|Sharon Tsang-de Lyster]]: an independent researcher based in Hong Kong and founder of Narrative Made, focusing on design and craft practices that empower displaced communities through storytelling and cultural sustainability. - [[Weft/Authors/Sachiko Tamashige.md|Sachiko Tamashige]]: a Kyoto-based multifaceted journalist and story teller about crafts such as textiles who explores the intersections of metalsmithing, spirituality, and cultural identity, drawing on her background in social psychology, art history, and film anthropology. - [[Weft/Authors/Linda S McIntosh.md|Linda S McIntosh]]: a Lao-American independent researcher and consultant specialising in community-based tourism and heritage projects in Laos and Bali, Indonesia, with significant contributions to the establishment of the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre (TAEC) in Luang Prabang. - [[Weft/Authors/Liliana Morais.md|Liliana Morais]]: a specially appointed associate professor in the Department of Contemporary Culture and Society at Rikkyo University, specialising in the intersections of art, craft, transnational mobility, and cultural exchange, with a focus on rural revitalization and Japanese studies - [[Weft/Authors/Laila Al-Hamad.md|Laila Al-Hamad]]: a Kuwaiti cultural researcher, previously a social development specialist at the World Bank, and founder of Zeri Crafts which preserves Gulf heritage through traditional craftsmanship. - [[Weft/Authors/Kaamya Sharma.md|Kaamya Sharma]]: a craft researcher and writer based in Mysore, India - [[Weft/Authors/Kevin Murray.md|Kevin Murray]]: the editor of Garland magazine, Vice President of WCC-AISBL with a PhD in Psychology - [[Weft/Authors/Juliette MacDonald.md|Juliette MacDonald]]: the Chair for Craft History and Theory at the University of Edinburgh, having earned her PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2003. - [[Weft/Authors/Darlie Koshy.md|Darlie Koshy]]: educationist and design management strategist with a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and known for his transformative leadership at institutions like the National Institute of Design (NID) in India. - [[Weft/Authors/D Wood.md|D Wood]]: a Canadian craft writer and editor known for her provocative exploration of craft as a political force, notably through her work "Craft Is Political," which challenges traditional notions of craft and its relationship to power and social movements - [[Weft/Authors/Aarti Kawlra.md|Aarti Kawlra]]: an Indian anthropologist and the Academic Director of the "Humanities across Borders: Asia and Africa in the World" program, with a focus on crafts, oral history, and cultural studies. - [[Weavers/Jenan Taylor.md|Jenan Taylor]]: an award-winning Australian freelance writer and journalist whose work has been featured in prominent publications such as The Monthly and SBS. %% DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %%