Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of New Mexico. A chef, documentary filmmaker, and foundational scholar of AfroMexican culinary history, her research focuses on Afro-Mexican studies, culinary traditions, as well as literature, cultural studies, and gender studies.

Associate Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Bárbara. Her work focuses on how Chicanx and Latinx artists perform gender, race, sexuality, nation, and diaspora across embodied aesthetic genres including visual art, muralism, music, theater, and dance.

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona. Her public and academic scholarship focuses on transnational community formations, mothering, and gendered migration along the United States-Mexico borderlands.

Dr. Dora Careaga-Coleman and Dr. Michelle Téllez

2022-2023

Gustavo García is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of New Mexico.

Maria R. Sanchez completed her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Texas Tech University in August 2024.

Natalia M. Toscano is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of New Mexico.

2023-2024

Naomi Ambriz is a Ph.D. Student at the University of New Mexico in the Department of American Studies.

John Jairo Valencia is a visual artist and Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Department of Chicanx Studies.

Maria Zyla is a Ph.D. Candidate at Florida International University in History focusing on Black women intellectual activists and their cultural production in the Americas between the 1920s-1990s.

Dr. Thayza Matos holds a PhD in Literature and Social Practices (2021) and is currently a Postdoc Fellow in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico. Her research interests span the intersections of History and Literature, with a focus on pivotal themes such as Decoloniality, Afro Diasporic History and Literature, Intersectionality, Gender, and Race.

Koral Carballo (born in Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico, 1987) is a documentary photographer, photojournalist, and visual artist based in Puebla Mexico.

Director: Marie Alarcon is a filmmaker and artist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They have worked in community media for the past 20 years and are currently an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Their work spans documentary, experimental video, installation, and narrative.

Sound: Maury Perez studies Film and Digital Arts at the University of New Mexico.

Cinematography: Ryuichiro Morgan is an Asian American filmmaker and digital media specialist based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Dr. Linda García Merchant is the Public Humanities Data Librarian at the MD Anderson Library, University of Houston (UH). García Merchant holds a PhD in English, with an emphasis in Chicana/Latina Literary and Cultural Studies and Digital Humanities from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. García Merchant is also the co-founder (with Maria Cotera) of the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective at the University of Texas Austin and is an award-winning documentary filmmaker.

UNM IT’s Student Specialist: Muhammad Danish builds and maintains the website.
UNM IT’s UI/UX Specialist: Cody Marvin optimizes the website for usability and accessibility.
UNM IT’s Associate Director of Enterprise Applications: Tuan Bui coordinates IT resources and oversees the the tactical implementation of the website.
UNM IT’s Director of Enterprise Applications: Alesia Torres provides strategic direction for the website’s implementation and support.