Our team

Charmaine Poh

Co-founder | Head of Visual Culture and Media

In building a vision, Charmaine is led by what is helpful, urgent and sustainable. She is concerned about ecology, agency, queer life, and persistent joy, and is based between Berlin and Singapore.

Sudhir Vadaketh

Co-founder | Editor-in-Chief

Sudhir’s work is focused on amplifying the voices of people marginalised by dominant power structures. His areas of concern are inequality, corporate and political hegemonies, and social hierarchies.

Tsen-Waye Tay

Co-founder

By asking how word, image and sound can provoke people to act, Waye aims to tell stories that expand and deepen perspectives, propelling the changes needed to build a kinder and more inclusive world.

Faris Joraimi

History Editor

Faris studies the history of the Malay world. He believes Singapore cannot be fully understood separately from its ancestral archipelago. Faris is pursuing his PhD at New York University.

Corrie Tan

Arts Editor

Corrie makes sense of art through intimate writing. A wayfarer travelling between academia and journalism, she is committed to a politics of care in critical discourse across South-east Asia.

Abhishek Mehrotra

Head of Content

As a naturalised Singaporean who emigrated from India for university, Abhishek tries to understand identity and belonging through storytelling. As a new father though, he's mostly just exhausted.

A former journalist across print, broadcast and digital platforms, Nick continues to be passionate about all things media. He hopes Singapore’s media scene will continue to blossom in the years ahead.

Sakinah Safiee

Head of Research and Social Media

Passionate about placemaking and city design, Saki is an intersectional feminist who analyses social issues with an urban infrastructural lens. She strives to create accessible content for everyone.

Ahmad Zaid

Community Manager

A long-time facilitator, Zaid loves good writing, good conversations, and good work. In every space he finds himself, Zaid advocates for building trust, learning to listen, and never taking yourself too seriously.

Stephen Jacob

Strategy Advisor

Stephen builds clarity out of complexity. With a career spanning the US, Europe, and Asia, he guides organisations through change with practical strategy and deep empathy. His interest lies in systems that work.

Scott Lee Chua

Technical Lead

Scott is the gardener and groundskeeper of Jom's corner of the world wide web. He is an advocate for independent media in SEA. When away from keyboard, he writes comics, produces podcasts, and designs puzzles.