Emily Mitamura is a poet and scholar of race, gender, and film. She is currently the Shauna M. Stark Pembroke Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender Studies at Brown University. They received their PhD in political theory at the University of Minnesota, working closely with Gender, Women, Sexuality Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Critical Race and…

Ana Cláudia São Bernardo (she, her, hers) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies at Providence College. In 2020-2021 she held the position of Zemurray-Stone postdoctoral fellow in Brazilian Studies at the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. She has an MA and PhD in Lusophone Literatures,…

Ezekiel Joubert III is an Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations in the Division of Advanced and Applied Studies at California State University-Los Angeles. His research, scholarship, and writing focus on the intersections of racial capitalism and Black education, educational inequality in Black rural communities in Midwest, Black organic intellectual thought and activism, and ethnic studies…

Kong Pheng Pha (he/him/his) was born in Ban Vinai refugee camp in northeastern Thailand after his family was forcibly displaced at the end of the United States’ “secret war” in Laos. He has lived in Wisconsin and Minnesota most of his life. He spent over a decade as a student at the University of Minnesota,…

Kaochi Pha (she/her) is a proud daughter of Hmong refugees. From a young age, she experienced the harsh realities growing up second-generation American while simultaneously navigating her identity as a Hmong woman. This shaped her political and social consciousness and led to her aspiration of supporting underrepresented communities professionally. She has worked in a variety…

Kidiocus King-Carroll is an Assistant Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. King-Carroll received a PhD in American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is a member of the Black Midwest Initiative. His scholarship and writing has appeared in Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, the Gender…

José Manuel Santillana Blanco is a queer feminist scholar, community organizer and storyteller. As a son of Mexican immigrant parents, José Manuel was politicized within the rural migrant farmworker landscapes of central California. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at UC Davis. Drawing on the work of Black, Latinx and…

Roderick A. Ferguson is currently the William Robertson Coe Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. He is the author of One-Dimensional Queer (Polity, 2019), We Demand: The University and Student Protests (University of California Press, 2017), The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (University of Minnesota…

Dee Pha is a proud Hmong American woman dedicated to fostering community connections and cultural appreciation. As a seasoned fundraiser, Dee channels her passion for community engagement into meaningful initiatives that uplift and empower others. With a background rooted in philanthropy, she orchestrates campaigns that catalyze positive change and strengthen bonds within diverse communities. Dee…

William Amado Syldor-Severino is the son of Haitian, Dominican, and Puerto Rican immigrants, born in a nexus of familial love and abuse, slave revolution, and ancestral systemic violence. He pulls from this history and those collective personal and communal experiences, in raising his son and navigating his current role as Assistant Dean of Transformative Justice…

Nadia Aruri (she/hers) is a Palestinian-Lebanese American, who graduated from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in May 2023. She is the co-founder of the Arab Students Association at the University of Minnesota, and served as the president of Students for Justice in Palestine from 2021-2023.

Eden Torres was Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota with adjunct status in American Studies. Beginning college at the age of thirty-five, she received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota and taught in the College of Liberal Arts for…

Rose M. Brewer is an activist scholar and The Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor and past chairperson of the Department of African American & African Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Brewer publishes extensively on Black feminism, political economy, social movements, race, class, gender and social change. Her books include the forthcoming Rod Bush: Lessons of…

  Simi Kang is a Sikh American community advocate, educator, artist, and scholar whose work centers Asian American collaborative resistance as a site for imagining environmentally and economically just futures in Southeast Louisiana. In collaboration with Vietnamese and Cambodian American commercial fisherfolk, their community engagement and writing practices reject the imperative for structurally underserved communities…

I am a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines themes of diasporic identity and resisting environmental injustice through painting, text, digital media, and installation. I was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, to two immigrants from Southern China. Though I did not grow up with many resources or guidance, I somehow found myself at a liberal…