Arpi Miller works on the Fuerza Latina emergency immigration hotline and is a volunteer coordinator with the Education and Outreach team. She also sits on the steering committee of ISAAC – the Interfaith Sanctuary and Accompaniment Coalition – and is part of Plymouth Congregational’s immigration team. She considers herself a Buddeo-Christian and believes insight meditation and the prophetic Christian tradition are critical tools and grounding forces in her own social justice work. Prior to living in Colorado, Arpi spent nearly three years working with a cooperative in highland Guatemala. She returned to California to pursue her PhD in sociology at UCLA with an emphasis in international migration. For a decade, during her masters and doctoral work, she worked with veteran Salvadoran immigrant organizers in the Los Angeles area, where she feels she received an education better than any university. During that time, she traveled to El Salvador regularly to monitor elections and participate in delegations. She currently freelances as a research fellow with the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at USC, and plays mom to two boys and a yellow lab.

Dr. Caridad Souza is the director of the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research at Colorado State University. Her teaching and research interests include contemporary race & ethnic relations and theories, women, children, & poverty, multiracial and decolonial feminisms, and critical ethnography. Her intellectual interests involve intersectional well-being and inequality (race, class, gender, and sexuality), and she has worked on gender equity at CSU on various committees including the President’s Commission on Women and Gender Equity, the Standing Committee on the Status of Women Faculty, and was one of the researchers on the gender equity study for the university. Caridad uses Theatre of the Oppressed techniques in her classes and work as a pathway towards increased embodiment. She is fascinated with the concept of social healing towards a more equitable, just, and free society

Dana Guber (ella) es una judía asquenazí de cuerpo blanco cuyos ancestros vinieron más recientemente de Renania y la Zona de Asentamiento. Nació y creció en los territorios ocupados de Arapaho, Cheyenne y Ute, también conocidos como Front Range en Colorado. Como anarquista, escritora, artista, herbolaria popular, administradora de plantas y animales, introvertida extrema y organizadora clandestina, Dana reconstruye el mundo a través de actos de jardinería caóticos, esfuerzos de ayuda mutua desorganizados, prácticas radicales de vivienda y convivencia, y redistribución intencional de recursos. . Puede encontrarla en su trabajo diario como cuidadora de ancianos en el hogar, en su oficina escribiendo en su máquina de escribir, jugando en su bosque de alimentos y cuidando a sus animales, junto al río buscando grosellas y hongos, o siendo un adicto a la televisión con ella. compañero Nolan y su desaliñado perro negro y su perro pastor, Cricket y Nico.

San Valdez Burch es el presidente de ISAAC, una organización interreligiosa donde las personas de conciencia se inspiran en las enseñanzas de las religiones para trabajar en solidaridad por la dignidad humana y la justicia migratoria. Ella está trabajando en el desarrollo y uso de un marco de interseccionalidad en espacios de sanación, comunidades de fe y trabajo donde la comunidad BIPOC se ve continuamente perjudicada. Su corazón y su deseo es ayudar a fomentar y establecer una comprensión de la justicia curativa como un componente necesario de la justicia social y la equidad racial, para que, como escribe Cara Page, la justicia curativa pueda pasar de ser un trabajo simbólico a un trabajo procesable”. “Este llamado es a crear sistemas de sanación que conduzcan la sinfonía del alma”. Jaiya John.

Rena Trujillo identifies as a queer, multiracial, Indigenous woman of color. She recently graduated from Colorado State University with her bachelor’s degree in Ethnic Studies and a minor in Women’s Studies. As she navigates post-grad life she spends much of her time trying to share knowledge and skills gained inside an academic institution and make it accessible to all people. Recently, she has been building knowledge and skills directly related to environmental justice by attending non-violent direct action camps led by Indigenous peoples. She believes there is great power that lies at the intersection of embodiment work, land-based practices, and social and environmental justice. Having access to clean air, water, and soil should be a basic human and non-human right, so until that is achieved and maintained for all beings, her body will remain on the frontlines. Pleasure activities include hiking, fishing, ethically hunting and gathering, creative resistance through art, dancing, eating food, and attending music concerts. She is a proud plant and puppy companion.