Merge pull request #679 from processing/about-update

Add new lead info

Author: ksen0

src/content/people/en/cassie-tarakajian.yaml

@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ category: mentor
 image: ../images/cassie-tarakajian.jpeg
 imageAlt: Headshot of Cassie Tarakajian, a light-skinned Armenian-American non-binary person with a neutral face, with a brown mullet, wearing a green shirt against a mauve background.
 role: p5.js Editor Creator, 2016-2022; p5.js Editor Mentor, 2022-present
-order: 4
+order: 5
 blurb: >
   Cassie Tarakajian (they/them) is an Armenian-American educator, technologist, and artist based in Chicago, IL. Their work centers around creating accessible and inclusive tools for making art, and interrogating the relationship between technology and pop culture. They are the creator of the p5.js Editor, an open-source in-browser code editor for creative coding in p5.js, supported by the Processing Foundation. They are also an adjunct professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (NYU ITP), teaching creative coding, web development, and making cursed content. They are a Y8 and Y9 member of NEW INC’s Art + Code Track, and in the past have held residencies at NYU ITP, Pioneer Works, and the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon.

src/content/people/en/cypress-masso.yaml

@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ image: ../images/cypress-masso.png
 imageAlt: A photo of cypress. She is a light olive skinned person with medium length wavy brown hair wearing a loose white collared shirt.
 url: https://outofambit.com
 role: p5.js Co-Lead 2021-22, p5.js Mentor 2022-2023, p5.js Fellow 2019
-order: 6
+order: 7
 blurb: >
   cypress evelyn masso (she/they) is a person (all the time), a tech worker (on weekdays), and a poet (on weekends). She has been contributing to p5.js (on-and-off) since 2016, was a p5.js co-lead for 2021, and then was a mentor for 2022. Originally from Ohio, she currently lives on unceded Kizh land (near Los Angeles) with a collection of moody houseplants. She enjoys dancing, babysitting her two godsons, and hanging out by the Los Angeles River.

src/content/people/en/kenneth-lim.yaml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ category: mentor
 image: ../images/kenneth-lim.jpeg
 imageAlt: WRITE ALT TEXT HERE
 role: p5.js Mentor, 2023-present
-order: 3
+order: 4
 blurb: >
   Kenneth Lim (he/him) is an interaction designer and creative coder working with text and language in
   all its forms. His work and research focuses on translations, machine understanding of language,

src/content/people/en/kit-kuksenok.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+name: Kit Kuksenok
+url: https://xnze.ro
+category: lead
+image: ../images/kit-kuksenok.jpg
+imageAlt: A photograph of a white non-binary person with short blonde hair. They stand against a background of a canal and greenery.
+role: p5.js Lead, 2024-present
+order: 1
+blurb: >
+  Kit Kuksenok (they/it) is an artist, writer, and coder. Since first learning to code in 2002, they have worked as a systems integrator, web developer, software engineer, data analyst, and lecturer in computer science. Their art/writing is informed by this proximity to technology and its variegated uses; they’ve taught numerous courses exploring the role of technology in society through algorithmic art. They hold a PhD (2016) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington (Seattle). Born in Ukraine, and having lived both in the US and in Germany, Kit speaks English, Ukrainian, Russian, and some German. Photo credit: Cora EF Hamilton.

src/content/people/en/lauren-mccarthy.yaml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ category: alumni
 image: ../images/lauren-mccarthy.jpeg
 imageAlt: A Chinese-American woman with short dark hair standing in front of device sculptures. 
 role: p5.js Creator and Lead, 2013-2020; p5.js mentor 2020-2021
-order: 5
+order: 6
 blurb: >
   Lauren Lee McCarthy (she/they) is an artist having social relationships in the midst of
   automation, surveillance, and algorithmic living. She has received grants and residencies

src/content/people/en/qianqian-ye.yaml

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ url: https://qianqian-ye.com/
 category: lead
 image: ../images/qianqian-ye.jpeg
 imageAlt: Qianqian, a non-binary Chinese person with black short hair, wearing a black tank top, standing next to an apple tree, with a lush garden in the background.
-role: p5.js Lead, 2021-present
-order: 1
+role: p5.js Lead, 2021-present, on leave
+order: 2
 blurb: >
   Qianqian Ye (they/she) is a Chinese artist, creative technologist and educator based in Los Angeles.
   Trained as an architect, she creates digital, physical, and social spaces exploring issues around gender

src/content/people/en/rachel-lim.yaml

@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ category: lead
 image: ../images/rachel-lim.jpeg
 imageAlt: Rachel, a Korean-American woman with medium length black hair smiling as she stands in her backyard.
 role: p5.js Editor Lead, 2022-present
-order: 2
+order: 3
 blurb: >
   Rachel Lim (she/her) is a Korean-American programmer whose works explore articulating vulnerability, discomfort, and grief with gentleness and humor. She is currently a software developer within the edtech space. She holds a master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, where she also received a BA in Art History. In her spare time, she loves crafting knick-knacks and running outdoors.

src/content/people/images/kit-kuksenok.jpg

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ contributePage:
   # FaqDescription: >
   #   TEXT NEEDED HERE
 peoplePage:
-  PageDescription: p5.js was created by Lauren Lee McCarthy in 2013 as a new interpretation of Processing for the context of the web. Since then we have allowed ourselves space to deviate and grow, while drawing inspiration from Processing and our shared community. p5.js is sustained by a community of contributors, with support from the Processing Foundation. p5.js follows a rotating leadership model started in 2020, and Qianqian Ye has been leading p5.js since 2021.
+  PageDescription: p5.js was created by Lauren Lee McCarthy in 2013 as a new interpretation of Processing for the context of the web. Since then we have allowed ourselves space to deviate and grow, while drawing inspiration from Processing and our shared community. p5.js is sustained by a community of contributors, with support from the Processing Foundation. Currently, p5.js follows a rotating leadership model started in 2020.
 peopleCategories:
   lead: p5.js Leads
   mentor: p5.js Mentors