Norma Alarcón is Professor Emerita in the Departments of Ethnic Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She was the founder and publisher of Third Woman Press, which began as a journal and gave voice to many Latina writers. She is the author of Ninfomanía:el discurso feminista en la obra poética de Rosario Castellanos (1992) and co-editor, among others, of Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State(1999). Her writings have had an impact across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and range from Chicana feminism and Chicana literature to topics such as gender, race, feminist politics, the U.S.-Mexico border, women of color feminisms, and contemporary social justice issues.

Norma E. Cantú, is a Professor Emerita from the Department of English, University of Texas at San Antonio, and currently serves as Murchison Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where she teaches Creative Writing and Latinx/Chicanx Studies. Her most recently published anthologies are Chicana Portraits and the co-edited, ¡Somos Tejanas! Tejana Identity and Tejanidad, as well as her single-authored book Fiestas in Laredo.

Marisa Belausteguigoita, Professor at the School of Pedagogy in the Humanities at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and chair of the Gender Studies Center at UNAM (CIEG/UNAM). Her work focuses on the relationship between critical pedagogies, artistic and juridical practices focused on women's access to justice, and she has been active in translating, teaching and researching the work of Chicanas and Chicana discourse and theory in México.

Dionne Espinoza is Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cal State LA. She has co-edited two award winning books: Chicana Movidas (with María Cotera and Maylei Blackwell, 2018) and Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte (with Lorena Oropeza, 2006).