Maria Joaquina Villaseñor (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Dean of Liberal Arts at Sierra College. Previously she was a Professor of Chicanx/Latinx Studies in the Department of Humanities and Communication and co‑founder of the Ethnic Studies Working Group at California State University, Monterey Bay. Villasenor is the co‑editor of Latinx Experiences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2023), a co‑author of The Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature (2017); a Latina life writer herself, her personal essays have been published in journals including The Acentos Review. Dr. Villasenor’s family is from Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico. She is a twin, a mother of twins, and a lifelong Californian. Christine J. Fernández is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at California State University, Monterey Bay. Her scholarship focuses on Hemispheric connections between Latin America and the United States and its intersections with gender studies and life writing. Her work has been published in journals such as eHumanista, Studies on Latin American Popular Culture, and Hispania.