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 (she/her) is a white-bodied, Ashkenazi Jew whose ancestors most recently came from the Rhineland and the Pale of Settlement. She was born and raised on occupied Arapaho, Cheyenne and Ute Territories, also known as the Front Range in Colorado.  As an anarchist, writer, artist,  folk herbalist, plant and animal steward, extreme introvert, and underground organizer, Dana rewilds the world through acts of chaotic gardening, disorganized mutual aid efforts, radical housing and co-living practices, and intentional resource redistribution. You can find her at her day job doing in-home eldercare, in her office writing on her typewriter, putzing around her food forest and taking care of her animals, by the river foraging for currants and mushrooms, or being a couch potato with her partner Nolan and her scruffy black dog and cattle dog, Cricket and Nico.

San Valdez Burch is the president of ISAAC, an interfaith organization where people of
conscience draw on the teachings of faiths to work in solidarity for human dignity and
immigration justice. She is working on developing and using an intersectionality framework in
healing spaces, faith communities, and work where the BIPOC community is continuously
harmed. Her heart and desire is to help foster and establish an understanding of healing justice as
a necessary component of social justice and racial equity, so that, as Cara Page writes, so that
‘healing justice can move from being symbolic to actionable work.” “This call is to create
healing systems that conduct the symphony of the soul.” 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.