The 2025 Jury Members
Lisa Decenteceo is an ethnomusicologist who studies the cultural politics of Philippine Indigenous music. Under a Fulbright scholarship, she earned her PhD in ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan, writing her dissertation “From Being to Becoming: Protests, Festivals, and Musical Mediations of Igorot Indigeneity.” Lisa was a research fellow of the Philippine Studies/Digital Humanities Colloquium at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies and has presented at conferences by the International Council for Traditional Music and Dance, the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. She has published for the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, the peer-reviewed Malaysian Journal of Music, and is a contributing author for the book Indigeneity in the Philippines by the University of Hawai’i Press. She teaches at University of the Philippines College of Music and serves as director of the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology.
Nelden Djakababa Gericke is a Berlin-based Indonesian-Filipina fiction writer, crafter, and trained-psychologist. With extensive experience in trauma-and-community-work in Indonesia, Nelden was a research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. Nowadays, she design focused-workshops with the elements of jewelry-crafting, psychology, and writing. She contributes as a freelancer for Tempo Magazine Indonesia, and was part of the core editorial team for a recently published edition of online magazine Südostasien. Nelden is one of the selected recipients of the Literature-Stipend for Writers Writing in Non-German Languages (2025), awarded by the City of Berlin through the Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt.
Trương Quế Chi is a Hanoi-based artist and curator working across cinema, visual arts, and performing arts. Since 2015, she has been a board member of Nhà Sàn Collective, an artist-run initiative in the city. She is also a film lecturer at Hanoi University of Theatre and Cinema.
Her curatorial practice includes co-curating multiple editions of Như Trăng Trong Đêm (Like the Moon in the Night Sky), a film program dedicated to Vietnamese cinema heritage, organized by TPD Film Centre since 2020. In 2025, her individual and collaborative artworks were featured in Setouchi Triennale, Tokyo Biennale, and Singapore Biennale.
Widya Fitria Ningsih serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada. Her research areas include women’s and gender history, decolonial movements, the Cold War, transnational migration, food sovereignty, and sonic heritage. In addition to teaching, she actively participates in international research, managing the NWO-funded project Restituting, Reconnecting, Reimagining Sound Heritage (Re:Sound) [2024-2028], which examines colonial history through sound recordings. Her publications include “Anak Cucu Kolonial”: Identitas, Pengalaman, dan Memori Perempuan Tionghoa di Belanda” (Gadjah Mada University Press, 2015) and “Perempuan dan Ketahanan Pangan (Rumah Tangga) Pada Masa Revolusi” (Jurnal Sejarah Citra Lekha (JSCL) Vol. 9 (1), 2024).
Jay Yamomo is a cultural futures curator, the Project Convenor of the I-ALPHA-HL movement, and the Managing Director of The Inteligente Publishing, Inc. He partners with government institutions and co-develops community-authored learning materials and heritage initiatives in the Philippines. His work weaves sound studies, performance, and community archiving, shaped by collaborations with international cultural institutions. His involvement in Sonic Entanglements grounds his focus on barangay-based epistemologies, decolonial memory, and futures literacy.