Valeria Cababié-Schindler is a professor of Religious Studies at Florida International University. Her areas of studies are Judaism, with a focus on Latin America and the Conservative movement, World Religions, and Analysis and Interpretation. She had performed extensive research on Jewish migration to Latin America, women in Latin America, the Jewish Conservative movement, and Latin American women rabbis. She has presented her work in various conferences and published articles.

Louise Laverty is a doctoral student in Jewish Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Their research focuses the role of women in twentieth-century Canadian Jewish literature. 

Ellen Kanner is an independent scholar who lived and studied in Spain for many years. In 2022, she and artist Annie Zeybekoglu created I, Teresa de Lucena : Reflections on the Trial of a Conversa, an intimate look at the life of a woman who faced the Spanish Inquisition twice. Ellen holds a BA in Hispanic Studies from Smith College, and an MAT in Spanish from Johns Hopkins University. 

Dr. Sharon Geva is a senior lecturer at Kibbutzim College and historian at the Ghetto Fighters’ House, Israel. Her research interests are the history of women in the Holocaust, Holocaust commemoration in gender perspective, history of Israeli women, and women survivors of the Holocaust. Her first book, To the Unknown Sister: Holocaust Heroines in Israeli Society (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2010) was awarded the 2011 Mordechai Ish Shalom Prize by the Yad Itzhak Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem. Her book Women in Israel: The Early Years was published by The Hebrew University Magnes Press (2020). Her latest book, Zivia Lubetkin and Yitzhak (Antek) Zuckerman: A Double Biography, was published by Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Yad Tabenkin and the Ghetto Fighters' House (2023).

Mark Schafer is an award-winning translator and visual artist and a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His two most recent translations are Stay This Day and Night with Me, his translation of Belén Gopegui’s novel, and Migrations: Poem, 1976–2020, his translation of Gloria Gervitz’s life’s-work poem. He edited and translated the career-spanning anthology of the poetry of David Huerta, Before Saying Any of the Great Words: Selected Poems. Schafer has also translated the poetry, fiction, and essays of authors across the Spanish-speaking world, including Virgilio Piñera, Alberto Ruy Sánchez, Jesús Gardea, Eduardo Galeano, and Antonio José Ponte. He has received National Endowment of the Arts Literature Translation Fellowships to translate stories by Gardea (1993), poetry by Huerta (1998), and two dozen more stories by Piñera (2024). He lives in Roxbury, MA, the traditional and unceded territory of the Massachusett and Wampanoag Peoples, with his wife and daughter.

Jacob Daniels received his History PhD from Stanford University in 2022. He is currently Assistant Professor of Instruction at The University of Texas, Austin, where he also serves as Assistant Director of the Shusterman Center for Jewish Studies. His book on the Jews of Edirne, Turkey, is forthcoming with Stanford University Press.