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Tom Price is the former Executive Director of Black Rock Solar. Prior to that he was the Environmental Manager for Burning Man during the Green Man theme, and was in the Gulf Coast for six months during the genesis of Burners Without Borders. He's been attending Burning Man since 1997, and he's proud to say that his decade plus streak of breaking down from sun stroke on the playa on day three remains intact.

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Burning since 2016, The Worst is a grateful citizen of BRC. She has contributed to her theme camps French Manilla and Camp "Wait, What's In This?" and participated in the art piece Andromeda, Reimagined. On playa, you can find her being "The Worst" (her playa name), dancing around in elaborate costumes, teaching yoga, and pontificating about how to bring Burning Man principles to the default world.

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The Hun, also known as J.H. Fearless, has been blogging for Burning Man (and many other outlets) since 2005, which is also the year she joined the BRC DPW on a whim that turned out to be a ten-year commitment. Since then she's won some awards for blogging, built her own creative business, and produced some of the Burning Blog's most popular stories and series. She co-created a grant-funded art piece, "Refoliation," in 2007, and stood next to it watching the Man burn on Monday night during a full lunar eclipse. She considers that, in many ways, to have been the symbolic end of Burning Man that was. The Hun lives in Reno with DPW Shade King, Quiet Earp. You may address her as "The Hun" or "Hun". If you call her "Honey" she reserves the right to cut you.

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The Countess has been burning since 1999 and has been counting Burners with the Census since 2004. One Burner. Two Burners. Three Burners. Four Burners. Five Burners. Mah Ah Ah Ah Ahhhh. (thunder clap)

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As manager of the Community Services Department, Terry oversees the planning, budgets, management, and operations of nine volunteer-staffed teams that are dedicated to providing Burning Man participants with vital public services at our event: BRC Municipal Airport, Earth Guardians, Greeters, Lamplighters, Placement, Playa Info, Recycle Camp, and the Volunteer Resource Team. As a core member of the BRC Ops Team and a member of the Event Leadership Team, Terry collaborates on the management of event-related issues affecting public welfare and resource management.

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Terje Toomistu (a.k.a Cece) is an Estonian anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. She received her PhD degree from the University of Tartu, where she currently holds an academic post. Her primary areas of research expertise are Indonesian gender and sexuality and the Soviet hippie movement. In both her academic and creative work, she often attends to the less visible and more marginal groups and practices, as well as to the various organizations of life, which hold promise of more sustainable, co-created and happy futures. She is also a member of the Burning Stories researchers’ collective.

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Terbo Ted first visited the Black Rock Desert in 1992 when there was no gate, no perimeter, no road, no trash fence, and you could drive your car as fast as you wanted in any direction. Terbo was the first DJ to play in Black Rock City with no one there to hear his set on a dusty Friday afternoon. Later, in the early years, he was the only one ever to be called “Mayor of the Techno Ghetto”. His playa self and default-world self can be remarkably similar these days.

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Tales From the Playa are dreams and memories of events that took place at Burning Man, as told by participants. Submit your story here.

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Sylvia Adrienne Lisse has worked on large-scale, interactive art teams since 2013. She's created her own interactive art, and has worked on art projects for Burning Man, BM Regional events, Oregon Eclipse Symbiosis Festival, What The Festival, and for Sonic Bloom. Recent 2019 projects include: "Serenity," an Honoraria project with the Flaming Lotus Girls as a Seamstress and Welder, and, as an on-playa Build Lead with the Temple of Direction. Sylvia also volunteers as an Arterian with the Burning Man Artery. Between art projects, Sylvia works as a Travel Radiologic Technologist specializing in trauma and surgical imaging at medical centers around the US.

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Proud citizen of Black Rock City and Glittercamp since 2005, Sybil Hatch is a lover of the desert, bicycles, and writing. She is particularly drawn to stories exploring the interstitial dynamics between humans, emotion, and the natural world. Best burn ever? When she brought her 16-year-old daughter to Burning Man. Daughter’s response when asked about her favorite part of Burning Man? “I couldn’t believe how friendly and open all the people were to me!” That’s Sybil’s kind of town!

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