Coleman's research looks broadly at Cuban and Caribbean art history, with a focused lens towards the intersections of cultural production and political resistance. She works currently as a Fellow with Open Channels, Canales Abiertos a global learning community of Caribbean popular theater artists, producers, scholars, students and enthusiasts based in New Orleans (USA) and Santiago de Cuba alongside her work as a Research Project Associate with the Latin American Writers Series program, housed in the Stone Center for Latin American Studies. Ms. Coleman holds a double BA from Seattle University in Interdisciplinary Arts (dual emphasis in Visual Art and Theatre) and Art History, and is currently continuing her studies in Latin American Studies and Art History.

Originally from Fairfax, Virginia, Michael Bromberg received a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s in linguistics from Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia. Prior to studying in Colombia, he volunteered with a community development and conservation organization in Saraqiqui, Costa Rica, and worked for a financial services firm in Valparaiso, Chile. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University, where his research focuses on improvised poetic performance in the Andean region of Colombia.

Chassidy Simmons, a native of Mobile, Alabama, received her B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures with a concentration in Spanish from the University of South Alabama. For the gap-year between her undergraduate and master's studies, she taught English as a second language in Cuenca, Spain, with the Aprende Lenguas program at the Universidad de Castilla La-Mancha. Chassidy was awarded her M.A. in Hispanic Studies from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge after completing her thesis, “Redefining the Image of the Afro Puerto Rican Woman in Recent Narrative by Mayra Santos-Febres.” Since receiving her M.A. she has taught Spanish in K-12 and undergraduate programs. Her research interests include Afro-Latinidad and the Africana Diasporic studies, social movements, postcolonial theory, and intersectionality theory.