Eric Brelsford is the freelance programmer who put this site together. He also works on other, not unrelated, projects (Farming Concrete, Food Census, Garden Maps). He is interested in power relations in urban spaces. He is also interested in the potential uses of collective data collection and analysis as tools for direct action and organization. The code for this site and some of his other projects is available on GitHub, and you're invited to poke at it and reuse it however you like.

Kevin Caplicki is a multi-disciplinary cultural worker living in Brooklyn, NY. He was a founding member of Visual Resistance Collective, The Miss Rockaway Armada, and the NYC Ghost Bike Project. He produces 3-D installation, screenprints, stencils, and photographs on various themes including immigration, imperialism, resistance, and anarchism. He is a member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, a worker-run business that distributes printwork, which collaborates frequently on exhibitions, installations, and portfolio projects.

Eva Meszaros helps to seek out funding for 596 Acres and for the communities that have formed around the vacant lots. By day, she is an editor and writer for a trade magazine covering the specialty food industry, published by a nonprofit organization fostering small food producers, some based right in Brooklyn and other parts of NYC. She grew up in the farming haven that is California, but her fascination with food policy and love of farmers markets bloomed only in recent years, as did an interest in contributing at the local level to organizations and projects focused on community development and food access.

Julia Samuels was born and raised in Portsmouth, NH.  She moved to Brooklyn, NY to study at Pratt Institute where she earned her BFA in Printmaking. She managed a bicycle taxi company in Manhattan where struggles with the city government lead to her prints being published in the New York Times. She now manages digital printing at Pratt Manhattan, and continues her own work in printmaking at the Gowanus Studio Space. She has been published by Cannonball Press and shown by the International Print Center of New York and has studied at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography. Find out more about Julia at her personal site.

Paula Z. Segal is a facilitator- and annotator-at-large who has lived in Brooklyn for ten years and focused her work on building capacity and providing technical assistance for local community-based organizing and decentralized pedagogic practice. She writes about the law and geography as structures that shape life in the city. She is a graduate of City University of New York Law School at Queens College.  Before joining the legal profession, Paula taught English to Speakers of Other Languages, developed curricula and ran an all-volunteer adult English school on the Lower East Side. She was also a member of the Empty Vessel Project. Paula currently works as a law clerk at Rankin & Taylor. She is awaiting admission to the New York State Bar. 

Stephan von Muehlen is a multi-disciplinary designer living and working in Brooklyn. His work tends to live at the intersection of technology, sustainable practice, and collaboration. He was a member of the Empty Vessel Project, a founder and the Design Director of of the technology startup EnergyHub, and is currently a member of the Mare Liberum boat-building collective and principal at the design and build consultancy Von Muehlen Industries, LLC.