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For more than fifteen years, Mariia Karpenko, popularly known as @fenixfatalist_ ) has been part of the #cosplay world. What started when she was a teenager searching for people she felt comfortable around eventually became a public identity and, through economic necessity, a business. Today, her studio FD Cosplay Studio (@fdcosplaystudio) operates from Kyiv with a team of around 30 people, creating bespoke costumes for customers across the United States and Europe. A Filipina cinematographer with credits across film and television, Genevieve “Gen” Reyes has built a body of work that moves between narrative storytelling and physically demanding environments. She is the cinematographer of Incognito, a popular Netflix series in the Philippines, alongside other film and series projects reflected in her growing portfolio. She films underwater, performs underwater diving stunts, rides horses, summits mountains, and takes photographs professionally. She is also a canine trainer and canine life coach. It is not a typical combination of disciplines. To us, it’s simply amazing. Our latest issue is live! Tomas Diez, a Venezuelan urbanist who leads the Fab City Foundation, advocating for cities to produce their own resources sustainably, leads our 5th issue. A beacon of success and an inspiration. Dominic Penaloza is a Chinese-Filipino serial entrepreneur who has built and launched several successful companies from the early dot-com era, created a social platform before social networking became mainstream, and now enters today’s age of AI with his brand-new solution, Sync. Reading his interview is very much like sitting in an exclusive founders’ masterclass where he shares experience, tips, and valuable lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs. Reneé Dominique is a Manila-born singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has quietly built one of the most remarkable international footprints of any Filipino independent artist. Her covers on YouTube have amassed over 100 million views and more than 1.5 million subscribers across Asia, America, and Europe. Elvis Boniface is the Founder and Managing Director of Edugist, a pan-African education newsroom reaching over a million readers. What began as a free blog has grown into a 16-person newsroom reporting across a dozen-plus African countries, built on the belief that African education deserves both hard scrutiny and honest documentation of progress, not just crisis coverage. In this interview, Elvis discusses building independent media from scratch, reporting across a continent of different systems and languages, and the discipline of stepping away from social media to think. Tom Croom has spent over two decades working in America’s anime and fan convention scene, from founding Wasabi Anime in 2001 to leading Green Mustard Entertainment today, taking fan conventions across different cities in North America and Canada. We’re looking for founders, innovators, creatives, and creators to feature in our next issues! Please follow us @dotSpotlight and DM us if you’re interested 🫶 Mac Edsel Florendo has spent his life mastering two kinds of disappearing acts. Onstage, he’s known as “Mr. Magic of the Philippines,” a cardistry champion and close-up magician who has performed for the likes of Manny Pacquiao, Nas Daily, and Mimiyuuuh, dazzling audiences with sleight of hand sharp enough to win him a spot among Southeast Asia’s Top 10 Masters of Magic. Off stage, he’s been making something else disappear: hunger.