Ashwin Ravikumar is Assistant Professor of environmental studies at Amherst College. He carries out advocacy-oriented research and organizes for racial, economic, and climate justice. He has published in World Development, Global Environmental Change, Conservation Letters, and Land Use Policy.

Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez is Professor of Spanish and of Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History (California University Press, 2016).

Alexis Massol González is co-founder and director of Casa Pueblo. In 2002 he received the Goldman Prize, also known as the environmental Nobel Prize, for his work in protecting Puerto Rico's mountain forests. He lives in Adjuntas with his wife and Casa Pueblo co-founder Tinti Deyá-Díaz.