LEONARDO MARTINEZ-DIAZ (he/him) - Founder and Director

Leo is a native of Mexico City and Chicago. He is an author, scholar, public servant, and climate activist who has worked for nearly two decades in the policy arena fighting for climate action, both in non-profit organizations and the federal government. His most recent book, with Alice C. Hill,  is Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption (Oxford University Press, 2019 and 2022). He is an amateur photographer.

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ALEXI SCHEIBER (she/her) - Artistic Coordinator

Alexi is an experimental animator and multidisciplinary artist currently in her final year of UMBC's Master of Fine Arts program, where she was awarded the RTKL Fellowship for her thesis work where she imagines restorative communities. She also works as an arts educator and is an Adjunct professor at UMBC. At the Crow's Nest, she is the first point of contact. ​

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DELILAH JABBOUR (she/her) - Intern

Delilah is an Arab-American artist, curator, and scholar based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work exists at the intersections of multimedia art, experimental design, and historical archives. Often flirting with post-colonial legacies, she intertwines collective action with the preservation of diasporic memories. Through this framework, she designs immersive spaces that foster authentic dialogues beyond regional and territorial boundaries. She recently served as a 2025 ArtTable Fellow and is currently pursuing an MFA in Curatorial Practice at Maryland Institute College of Art.​