Audience Takes the Stage (5th Birthday Edition)

Rachel Sato-Banks is a writer and conceptual creative from London, who now calls Amsterdam home. She cut her teeth in magazine journalism, before moving onto the creation of branded content at VICE’s creative agency Virtue and Unseen Photo Fair. Since then, she’s been working for brands such as Adidas, as well as having fun with side projects that sometimes involve her dancing like a maniac for a music video or co-producing a denim photography project, Hadaka Denim, with a friend. She likes embarrassing stories, eccentric octogenarians and crappy kid’s drawings. Not to mention, she’s fiercely in love with her rescue dog Hummer.

Alex Kitain is the founder of The Coffeevine, a widely-read guide to the best cafés in the world and makers of Europe’s most exciting monthly coffee box. He recently founded his newest company, Freshdrip, that will soon revolutionize the way we drink exquisite coffee on the go. He has been living and working in Amsterdam for almost 10 years.

Christiana Courtright is a Senior Social Strategist at Kingsday. Originally hailing from Britain, she fell into digital marketing in 2008 when her travel blog was discovered by Microsoft, who then hired her as a social influencer. Her career spans international journalism and digital marketing, when she’s not creating engaging social campaigns for clients you’ll find her cycling like a maniac around Amsterdam.