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Abdulla Owusu— Retired street-level teacher and community educator, now operating an unlicensed after-school program out of her apartment
Abdulla Mbekele-Owusu is wiry and uncontainable, with close-cropped natural hair she colors a vivid copper-orange that clashes beautifully with her warm redd…
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Abdullah Traoré-Zaragoza— Community elder, informal storyteller and dispute mediator, UBC-dependent Tier 1 resident
Abdullah Traoré-Zaragoza is ninety-one years old and looks every day of it, which she considers an achievement rather than a problem. She is very small — she…
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Adelmo Malhotra— Street pharmacist — off-prescription medications, cognitive supplements, pain management, and quiet mood chemistry
Adelmo Malhotra-Larsdóttir is a man who has been slowly becoming the color of his surroundings for twenty years: grey-brown skin softened by age and poor lig…
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Adriano Balogun— Surveillance Operator, Arcturus Defense Solutions — Civil Security Division — Digital Observation Unit
Adriano Balogun is a soft-looking man who has spent thirty years becoming invisible in rooms full of screens. He's broad through the chest and shoulders from…
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Afreen Cervantes— Echo Hunter — salvages audio data and acoustic recordings from tunnel resonance phenomena, sells to surface collectors and archivists
…ng wound very tight and vibrating at a frequency just above human hearing. She has a cat-ear mod — large, mobile, dark charcoal grey — which she got not for aestheti…
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Agnieszka Erikstad— Street pharmacist — legal supplements, gray-market stims, pain management, and occasional compassionate dispensing of controlled substances
Agnieszka Erikstad is tall and painfully thin in the way of someone who grew up on UBC stipend food and spent their teens in a growth spurt the nutrition cou…
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Ah-lam Ibarra— Freelance mechanic specializing in personal mobility rigs and modified transit vehicles, operates from a rented bay in Geartown
Ah-lam Ibarra-Ixchel is a young man who looks like he was built for a different era — wide shoulders, large hands, a face that defaults to an expression of c…
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Akito Ogawa— Veteran of the Second Corporate War, retired Axiom military contractor, now a storyteller and difficult-to-avoid presence
Akito Chakraborty-Ogawa is ninety years old if you ask him, eighty-eight if you read his records, and older than all of it if you sit with him for an hour. H…
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Alena Karimov— Gene therapist at Helix Biosystems' Aurochs Medical Complex outpatient clinic, specializing in hereditary conditions and geneware integration complications
Alena Bustamante-Karimov is small and precise in her movements, with light brown skin, natural hair worn in a large puff held back by a polished Helix Biosys…
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Alero Thakur— Blood bank operator and bio-waste disposal technician at a community cooperative clinic in Geartown
Alero Thakur-Halverson is slight and precise, with medium-brown skin and natural hair she keeps in a large puff held back from her face with a band of blue p…