Santiago Acosta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American literature and visual arts, which he examines through the lenses of cultural studies, political economy, and environmental theory.

Erick Moreno Superlano is a PhD student at the University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) and a visiting scholar at the Zolberg Institute. His research explores political structures, socio-economic formations, and racial hierarchies shaping the future of immigrants from the Global South in New York. He focuses on working-class Venezuelan immigrants and the spatial politics influencing their futures in the city.

Sean Nesselrode Moncada (he/him) is an historian of Latin American and Latinx art, architecture and visual culture. His research focuses on visual and material modernisms, their uneven implementation across the hemisphere and their contested social and ecological dimensions. In his courses, he invites students to consider how images proliferate and behave in the world, encouraging an expanded view of what constitutes artistic production and who merits inclusion in our received histories in this place called America.

Alejandro Velasco is an Associate Professor at NYU's Gallatin School and the Department of History. His research focuses on social movements, urban politics, and democratization. He is the author of Barrio Rising (University of California Press, 2015), a history of urban popular politics. From 2015 to 2021, he served as Executive Editor of the NACLA Report on the Americas.