production team

Kaméa Chayne
host & creative producer

Kamea (she/they) is an in(tra)dependent creative, the writer and publisher of UPROOTED, and the host and producer of ~alchemize~ and Green Dreamer podcast — for which she has had the honor of interviewing a diverse range of over 400 community and thought leaders.

First germinated and watered in Taiwan with a Hakka-Taiwanese biocultural upbringing that was influenced by Taoist/Buddhist thought and practices of land and ancestral veneration, she roots her values in relation to her late grandparents’ lives as land-based subsistence farmers in rural Longtan.

Their intellectual inquiries are guided by their sense of belonging to the “outside”— “beyond-ing” mainstream modes of being and relating and “beyond-ing” the simplification of the experience of aliveness.

A cultural critic who dreams of “reorienting growth” against dominant tides, they hope their work moves inner and undercurrents— inspiring open curiosity, experimental shapeshifting, and tender love for all.

Anisa Sima Hawley
co-editor & community weaver

Anisa (they/she) is a friend, child, sibling, shapeshifter, and all-around goofball whose emergent praxis of “fielding imaginative futures through presence” is guided by acts of radical care, tenderness, and subversive failure.

Anisa is moved to engage with place-making, hold and metabolize grief/joy, and sit with the paradoxical urgency of slowing down. Shaped by their ever-unfolding relationship with axes of queerness, neurodivergence, and liminality, they are enchanted by modes of “nepantla” as dreamed through dance, textile art, and ceramics.

Alongside their soma-poetic practices, Anisa engages with storytelling as a radical craft through their work as coordinator, co-editor, and community weaver of Green Dreamer and ~alchemize~. They are a lifelong companion to their dog Miso, who reminds them of the importance of rest, playfulness, and simply being.

Yasmin Dahnoun
co-editor & researcher

Yasmin (she/they) is a writer, poet and artist currently based in London. She often feels like something between a weaver bird and a bumblebee, cross-pollinating and interweaving across crafts, practices, and ways of interbeing.

As a British-Algerian growing up between continents, religions, and cultures, they've always found home in what brings us together—music, art, dance, food, and the fearless ability to express what it is that we truly want to say, do, act and feel. Yasmin’s activism is rooted in her paternal grandparents’ fight for Algerian independence. In honouring their struggle, she dedicates her work to the freedom of all beings everywhere from suffering and oppression. 

 Forever shifting, her journalism is rooted in her care and commitment to Earth. She seeks to bring truth, accountability, and deeper inquiry through her writing. In between all of this, you’ll find Yasmin deep in a novel, getting lost in a painting, roller-skating and most importantly—resting.