Marcela Joya is a researcher and writer specializing in Latin American and Afro-Antillean music, with eleven years of experience in archival research, ethnographic and audiovisual documentation. As a photographer and PhD student in Ethnomusicology she is interested in the methodological development of applied ethnomusicology through artistic interdisciplinarity.

Lia Crowley’s current research interests include ambivalent attitudes in the workplace, the use of big data to study organizations, and occupational health psychology.

John D. Frank is a PhD student in Political Science at CUNY’s Graduate Center. He has taught sociology as an Adjunct Lecturer for over twenty years at Lehman College and LaGuardia Community College. His research focuses on theories of identity formation and political identity. He holds a BA from Columbia, a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard, and an MFA from City College of New York.

Yael Horowitz is a scholar-practitioner of Yiddish Theatre and friendship as a site of cultural transmission. She is working on her PhD in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Pierina Pighi Bel is a journalist, MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish (New York University), and PhD student at the Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures (LAILaC) program. Her main interests are South American feminism and Mad Studies.

Oliver Silverman is a PhD Candidate in the CUNY Graduate Center Political Science Department.