Anne Gebelein is the Associate Director of El Instituto: The Institute of Latino, Caribbean and Latin American Studies at UConn, and an Associate Professor in Residence of Latin American and Latino Studies. She has been an educator for 35 years, and specializes in themes of immigration, human rights, border studies, and service learning.

Jason Oliver Chang is Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut, where he serves as the Director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute. Chang holds a PhD in Comparative Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley as well as a Masters in Public Policy and Administration from UMass Amherst. He is a scholar and educator as well as a public servant. Chang is an elected official sitting on the West Hartford Public Schools Board of Education and Co-Chair of the Community Awareness Subcommittee of Governor Lamont's Hate Crimes Advisory Council. As co-founder of the Make Us Visible campaign, he fought for the inclusion of AAPI studies as a mandated curriculum and leads the state's effort to meet this new education law.

Elena Marie Rosario (Pronouns: she, her, hers, Ella) is a public historian and curriculum writer. Rosario is working on a dissertation that documents the history of Puerto Ricans in Hartford, Connecticut, in the mid-twentieth century. She is a member of Hartford’s Puerto Rican community, and her scholarship is deeply rooted in her identity as a Puerto Rican woman of the diaspora. She received her B.A. from Connecticut College and is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Michigan.