C. J. ALVAREZ
_{Associate Professor}

_{Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies; Department of History} 
 
^{C. J. Alvarez is the author of Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide which won two book awards for its contribution to our understanding of the built environment of the border. Other work has appeared in academic history journals, an exhibition catalog accompanying the photography of Zoe Leonard, and the Brooklyn Rail. He is an associate professor in the department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin though during the upcoming academic year he will be at visiting fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah where he will continue work on his current book project about the environmental history of the Chihuahuan Desert. This book is meant to be a meditation on the discipline of history itself, an examination of the fragmentary nature of the past, and an experiment in ecocentric history writing.}   

FATIMA-AYAN MALIKA HIRSI 
_{Independent Artist} 

^{Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi is a Black mother who grows food with her family in Oregon. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, The Texas Observer, Entropy, The Boiler, Anthropology Now, Bearing the Mask, and elsewhere. She is a fellow of the Pink Door Writing Retreat and the Anaphora Arts Writing Residency. The author of two chapbooks, Moon Woman (Thoughtcrime Press) and EVERYTHING GOOD IS DYING (Deep Vellum Publishing), her first full length collection is forthcoming from Deep Vellum.} 

GÉNESIS MANCHEREN ABAJ 
_{Multi-Disciplinary Artist & Writer}

_{Tierra Narrative} 
 

^{Génesis Mancheren Abaj (b. 1992, they/them) is a Queer, Kaqchikel actor and filmmaker, born and raised in New York City. As a screenwriter and director, they are interested in exploring Kaqchikel contemporary stories that include the supernatural, the surreal and the absurd. Génesis completed their first short film called Terrible Angel in November of 2022, in which a young woman is reunited with one of her ancestors that guides her into the afterlife through a ritual of care, currently in post-production.  
They are co-founder of Tierra Narrative (TN), an independent production house that focuses on Central American poetry, art and cinema through programming and production. Génesis loves to stay offline, spend time with their loved ones and express themselves through various mediums.}  

MÓNICA TERESA ORTIZ 
_{Independent Poet and}

_{Interdisciplinary Artist}  
 

^{mónica teresa ortiz is a poet born and living in Texas. They were a 2021-2022 artist-in-residence for UT Austin's Planet Texas 2050, a 2022 visiting researcher for the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, and a 2023-2024 Uproot Project Environmental Justice fellow. mónica has published work in The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Scalawag, and has a chapbook Do You Ever Dream of Flamingos? forthcoming from Garden Party Collective.} 

PAVITHRA VASUDEVAN 
_{Assistant Professor}

_{Women's & Gender Studies and African & African Diaspora Studies} 
 
^{Pavithra Vasudevan (she/they) is an Assistant Professor with the Department of African & African Diaspora Studies and the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Vasudevan is a recipient of the 2022-23 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for their first book project, Toxic Alchemy: Race and Waste in Industrial Capitalism, a geopoetic catalyst testifying to the fragmentation of life under racial-colonial capitalism.}