Erin Beck is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. Her research interests include Latin American politics, NGOs, microcredit, civil society, participation, women’s movements, organizational sociology, development, Guatemala.

Lynn Stephen is Philip H. Knight Chair, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Anthropology, and a participating graduate faculty member in Indigenous Race, and Ethnic Studies (IRES), Latin American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), and the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS). She engages political economy, ethnohistory, and ethnography to create a hemispheric lens on major challenges faced by indigenous peoples and others (out-migration, tourism, economic development, and low-intensity war) and their creative responses to these challenges.

Professor Gabriela Martínez is an international award-winning documentary filmmaker who has produced, directed, or edited more than 12 ethnographic and social documentaries. Her early documentary work includes Ñakaj and Textiles in the Southern Andes, Mamacoca, and Qoyllur Rit’i: A Woman’s Journey, and her most recent work includes Media, Women, and Rebellion in Oaxaca and Keep Your Eyes On Guatemala.