Sandra de la Loza is a trans-disciplinary artist from Los Angeles whose work examines power dynamics embedded in social space. Her practice incorporates extensive archival research, work with community-based groups, and the collaborative creation of autonomous spaces for artistic production, community action, and critical dialogue. She is the founder of the Pocho Research Society of Erased and Invisible History (PRS) and the author of The Pocho Research Society Field Guide to L.A.: Monuments and Murals of Erased and Invisible Histories (U. Washington Press, 2011). Her most recent project addresses ongoing decolonial struggles, their territorial inscriptions, and the counter-hegemonic approaches to research and archives.

Fran Ilich is an artist and writer based in New York City who works in the theory and practice of narrative media, experimental economies and finance, and hacktivism. He is the author of several award-winning novels, a monograph on narrative and ideology, and numerous works of narrative media that range from interactive web telenovelas, experimental theater, alternate reality games, and utopian experiments in social organization that link agriculture and art. In his recent project, Aridoamérica Winter Plan, he turned a storefront space in Williamsburg into a neighborhood coffee co-op with its own micro-economy.

Jennifer Ponce de León is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on intersections between radical left politics and contemporary cultural production in the Americas. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in, among others, the journals American Quarterly, e-misférica, and GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, and edited collections, Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy and Activism in the Americas (U. Chicago Press, 2017) and Dancing with the Zapatistas (Duke U. Press, 2015).