Mirna Palacio Ornelas is a queer daughter of Mexican immigrants first and foremost, and then an MFA candidate in poetry at Virginia Tech. She grew up in Ciudad Juárez, the borderlands, y se perdió somewhere in the Midwest. Trabaja para Noemi Press as an assistant editor, continues to tweak her tortilla recipe para perfectarla, y tambien recounts dreams in vivid detail to those she dreams about. Mostly, she's dreaming of the day when academia is actively anti-racist and contributes through creative projects.

Born shortly before the tumult of the Romanian revolution, and currently living as a guest on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ lands, Ada Dragomir works across media feeling most at home somewhere between spoofed youtube videos and serious sculptural objects. By harnessing the power of absurdity to point to uncomfortable political realities, her practice addresses questions of productivity, value, and labour. As a queer Romani woman estranged from culture by global capitalism, Dragomir’s work can’t help but be both deeply immigrant and thoroughly millennial. A graduate of Emily Carr University (BFA 2020), she recently exhibited as part of the 2020 Capture Photography Festival.

Dr. Elizabeth C. Brown is a teacher-scholar whose work focuses on exploring the culture and politics of US imperialism, colonization, racial formation, and resistance. She has taught courses on topics such as US education and antiracist activism, race and speculative fiction, and literatures of slavery and its afterlife. Off campus, she has worked with multigenerational activists as part of a Seattle “freedom school” organizing around racism and the school-to-prison pipeline. Currently, Elizabeth lives in Portland, Oregon, where she has taught at Portland State University, and she is preparing a book manuscript tentatively entitled US Imperial Pedagogies: Racial Education from Reconstruction to the Progressive Era.