M. G. Renu Cappelli (founding member) originally hails from Italy and from Maui, Hawaii. Her work intervenes into normative models of community and identity: exploring temporal place, heart space, and the travails of difference and density. She completed her Ph.D. in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley in 2007, and has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1998. She is a scholar, a teacher, a puppeteer, and a dancer, currently completing her Masters in Integral Counseling Psychology–the “cure by love.”