Artist-scholar-producer, Alex E. Chávez is the Nancy O'Neill Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame and Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Latino Studies. His research explores articulations of Latinx sounds and aurality in relation to race, place-making, and the intimacies that bind lives across physical and cultural borders. He is the author of the multi-award-winning book Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño (Duke University Press, 2017)—recipient of the Alan Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology (2018), the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology's Book Prize (2018), and the Association for Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award (2018). He has consistently crossed the boundary between performer and ethnographer in the realms of academic research and publicly engaged work as an artist and producer. He is co-editor of Ethnographic Refusals / Unruly Latinidades. A Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, in 2020 he was named one of ten Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders by the Institute for Citizens and Scholars. He currently serves as a National Trustee of the Recording Academy.

Alfonso Gonzales Toribio is an advanced Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and has served as the Director of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of California, Riverside since the fall of 2017. Under his leadership, UCR’s Latin American Studies Program has become a more robust center for intellectual life on our campus, sponsoring dozens of lectures and events, and mentoring graduate and undergraduates for diverse careers. He holds a PhD in Political Science (UCLA 2008) and an MA in Latin American Studies (Stanford 2002). His research agenda is firmly at the intersection of Latino and Latin American Studies. It is focused on the politics of migration control and migrant/refugee social movements, capitalism and the prospects of liberal democracy in the United States, Mexico, and Central America. He is also the co-editor of a book series titled Subaltern Latino/a Politics with Oxford University Press.

Karen Mary Davalos, Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, has written extensively about Chicana/o/x art, including the prize-winning book, Yolanda M. López (distributed by UMN Press, 2008), and Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata Since the Sixties (NYU Press, 2017). With Constance Cortez (UTRGV), she is leads Rhizomes: Mexican American Art Since 1848, a multi-component, digital ecosystem which includes an open-source search tool progressively linking art collections and related documents from libraries, archives, and museums. She has served on the Board of Directors of Self Help Graphics & Art since 2012.

Daniel Borzutzky is an Associate Professor of English and Latin American and Latino Studies at UIC. He is a poet and translator from Spanish. His books include: Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 (2021); Lake Michigan (2018), a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize; and The Performance of Becoming Human (2016), winner of the National Book Award. His translation of Galo Ghigliotto's Valdivia(2016), received the National Translation Award. He has also translated books by Raúl Zurita and Jaime Luis Huenún. He teaches courses in creative writing, contemporary literature and Latinx studies.

Esther Díaz Martin is Assistant Professor in LALS and GWS, earned her Ph.D. in Iberian and Latin American Languages and Cultures with a Graduate Portfolio in Mexican American and Latina/o Studies from the University of Texas at Austin (2018). She is a first-generation scholar with roots in Jalisco and the San Joaquin Central Valley in California. Her book manuscript Latina Radiophonic Feminism(s): Sound, Voice and Gender Politics into the Digital Age, under contract with the University of Texas Press, explores the sound and discourse of contemporary Latina feminism as heard in US Spanish-language radio and Latina podcasting. Her scholarship, centering on the intersections of sonic, oral, and aural knowledge-making in Latinx popular culture and literature, is published in Chicana / Latina Studies, Diálogo, and Spanish and Portuguese. Her research interests also center on Latinx uses of digital media and Latin@ futurity. She is a previous Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities (2021-2022) and currently co-leads the Latinx Sound Cultures Studies Research Working Group (2022-2024) through the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative. Her most recent essay on the topic of navigating academia as a first-generation scholar, new mother, and part of a dual career couple can be read here.

Lawrence La Fountain Stokes is professor of Spanish, American Culture, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. His research interests are American and ethnic studies, queer/LGBT Hispanic Caribbean (Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican) studies, and U.S. Latina/o/x and Latin American literary, cultural, and performance studies. His first book, Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), analyzes portrayals of migration, sexual diversity, and gender nonconformity in Puerto Rican cultural productions on both on the island and in the United States. His most recent book, Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (University of Michigan Press, 2021), he focuses on migration, transvestism, and performance and argue that drag can serve not only to question gender and sexuality but also to explore commodification, cyberspace, diasporic displacements and reenactments of home, ethnicity, the human/animal divide, monstrosity, politics, poverty, race, and racial passing.

Victoria Stone-Cadena is the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM) at Yale. She has served as the Associate Director of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, and as an Anthropology faculty member, and Director of Latino Studies, at Saint Peter's University. A broadly trained socio-cultural anthropologist, she earned her doctorate at the CUNY Graduate Center. With the support of a Fulbright fellowship, she conducted her ethnographic research on transnational indigenous migration in southern highland Ecuador n. Her research interests include indigeneity and ethnicity, transnationalism, diaspora, and mobility studies, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnicity across the Americas. She currently co-chairs the Expert Witness Section of the Latin American Studies Association.