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Antonio Reyes is an Associate Professor at Washington and Lee University. His research focuses on the relationship between language and society, and the way they intertwine and shape each other to create new contexts of meaning and new realities. Particularly, he is interested in developing interdisciplinary theoretical approaches in discourse studies to decode the relation between language and social processes of power and ideology. He has published in Language & Communication, Discourse & Society, Journal of Language and Politics, Text & Talk, and a monograph Voice in Political Discourse: Castro, Chavez, Bush and their Strategic Use of Language (Bloomsbury, London).

Born in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, Federico Cuatlacuatl is an artist based in Virginia and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Virginia. Federico's work is invested in disseminating topics of Latinx immigration, social art practice, and cultural sustainability. Building from his own experience growing up as an undocumented immigrant and previously holding DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), Federico’s creative practice centers on the intersectionality of indigeneity and immigration under a pressing Anthropocene, transborder indigeneity, and migrant indigenous futurisms. In 2016, Federico launched the Rasquache Artist Residency in Puebla, Mexico and continues to host artists internationally in his hometown San Francisco Coapan.