Ayana is a Black feminist artist and cultural worker with four years of experience internationally teaching software engineering inside museum educational programs, career training programs, non-profits, and their own art practice. They have worked with organizations such as the Hirshhorn, a contemporary art museum, Flatiron School, a coding bootcamp, and Girls For A Change, a non-profit. Based in Dawn, Virginia — tucked in between the ancestral lands of the Mattaponi and Youghtanund — they are answering the call to steward land that has been in their family for four generations. Braiding language, code, and craft they practice speculation, teaching, and worldbuilding to engage our collective imagination around the technologies we need in the world we desire.