Dedé Mirabal (1925‒2014) was the surviving sister of Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal and the founder of the Mirabal Sisters Foundation and the Mirabal Sisters House Museum. Ana (Nani) E. Martínez is a journalist, translator, and interpreter living in the Dominican Republic. Heather Hennes, professor of Spanish at Saint Joseph's University, is the translator of The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez: Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo.