Vanessa Agard-Jones is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, where she serves on the executive councils of the university’s Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, and the Center for Science and Society. With late historian Manning Marable she is co-editor of Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Outside of academe, she is the former coordinator of Oakland’s Prison Activist Resource Center and the former Board Chair of New York City’s Audre Lorde Project. She most recently served on the board of directors for Land to Learn, an organization committed to growing a movement for food justice and community wellness through garden-based education.

Siobhan Angus is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Carleton University. Her work sits at the intersection of art history, media studies, and the environmental humanities. Her current research examines the visual culture of resource extraction, with particular attention to environmental justice, materiality, and labor. Her scholarship has appeared in Environmental Humanities, Transbordeur, and October. She is the author of Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography (Duke University Press, 2024), which was shortlisted for the College Art Association’s 2025 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award and received the 2024 Photography Network Book Prize and the 2025 UUAC-AAUC Book Award.

Martín Arboleda is Associate Professor of Sociology at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile. He obtained his Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Manchester, U.K. His research explores the political economy of globalized extraction, as well as the political and intellectual history of Latin American theories of development and underdevelopment. His fields of interest include global political economy, critical social theory, and development studies. He is the author of the books Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism (Verso Books, 2020), Gobernar la utopía: sobre la planificación y el poder popular (Caja Negra Editora, 2021), and Dependence and Freedom: A Political Theory of Non-Western Marxism (forthcoming). His research has been published in several scholarly journals as well as non-academic outlets. He is also a co-convenor of Modernismo Latinoamericano, a digital platform that reconstructs the trajectory of the emancipatory imaginations and struggles that emerged from the region during the development era (1910–1979).

Nicolás Díaz Bejarano is an architect whose work examines storage spaces ranging from national libraries to data centers studying the intersections between society and information in local territories. In 2025, he was co-curator of the Chilean Pavilion, Reflective Intelligences, at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. He is part of the ECOS-ANID collaboration project SEED (Social and Environmental Effects of Data connectivity: Hybrid ecologies of transoceanic cables and data centers in Chile and France). He recently published “Thirsty Forests and Expansive Droughts: The Environmental Impacts of Data Centers in Latin America” (Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2025) with Ana Valdivia, exploring data center compensation projects in Mexico and Chile.

Jonathan Beller is Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor of English and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. His books include The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle (Dartmouth University Press, 2006), Acquiring Eyes: Philippine Visuality, Nationalist Struggle, and the World-Media System (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006), The Message Is Murder: Substrates of Computational Capital (Pluto Press, 2017), and The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2021). He currently serves with Amber Jamilla Musser as co-editor of Social Text.

Teresa Borasino is a Peruvian artist and educator based in Amsterdam. Her work inhabits the fertile edges between art and activism — the space between poetics, politics, and radical engagement with social movements. Her practice moves across writing, performance, video, interventions, and artistic gatherings, alongside teaching, facilitation, training, and eco-social justice organizing.

Since 2021, Teresa has been conducting a long-term artistic research into Andean cosmovision and its tapestry of ancestral practices and ways of knowing. Her current work examines the interplay between epistemicide and (lithium) extractivism at the Quelccaya glacier in the Southern Andes of Peru. This research was developed as part of the BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice (2023–2024) and presented in “Sensing the Ways: On Touch, Story, Movement, and Song” (2025) at Casco Art Institute, Utrecht.

Teresa is a tutor at Planetary Poetics, Sandberg Institute, in Amsterdam and co-founder of reschooling-with, a platform dedicated to unlearning coloniality and relearning relationality. She convened the collaborative research and symposium Towards Post-Extractive Cultures (2023–2025).

micha cárdenas, PhD, MFA, is an artist, author and Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the director of the Critical Realities Studio. Her debut novel Atoms Never Touch (AK Press, 2023) imagines trans latina love crossing multiple quantum realities. Her academic monograph Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media (Duke University Press, 2022) was the co-winner of the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize in 2022 from the National Women’s Studies Association. She is an executive editor of the journal Transgender Studies Quarterly with Duke University Press. She was a winner of the 2022 Anonymous Was a Woman artist award. She is currently working on her next academic monograph “After Man: Trans Ecologies and Climate Justice,” as well as “The Probability Engine,” a multi-disciplinary artwork imagining futures of climate justice. She is a neuroqueer woman of Colombian and Irish descent.

Linda Schilling Cuellar is an architect, urban designer, and researcher based between Santiago and London. Her work investigates the spatial arrangements of extractive industries and their environmental consequences. In 2025, she was co-curator of the Chilean Pavilion, Reflective Intelligences, at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, where her dissertation, “Landscape Ledgers,” explores how environmental impact assessments and citizen participation processes shape environmental publics in territories marked by socio-environmental conflict. She also serves as a graduate tutor for the MA in Research Architecture (2025–2026 cohort).

Her writing appears in the Journal of Architectural Education (78:2, Worlding. Energy. Transitions, 2024), DELUS: The Journal of the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (Hatje Cantz, 2024), and Architecture: From Public to Commons (Routledge, 2023). In 2024, she guest edited Materia Arquitectura: Matter Out of Place (Universidad San Sebastián). She holds a master’s degree from Columbia GSAPP and a bachelor’s degree from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María.

Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on the decolonial environmental humanities, authoritarianism and extractivism, queer Latinx epistemes, media environments, racial ecologies, cultural theory, and artistic practice. She is author of four books including The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke University Press, 2017), which examines five scenes of ruinous extractive capitalism, and Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Américas (University of California Press 2018), a text of critical hope about the role of submerged art and solidarities in troubled times. She is also author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (University of California Press, 2009) and co-editor with Herman Gray of Towards a Sociology of a Trace (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). She is series editor with Diana Taylor of Dissident Acts at Duke University Press. Her forthcoming book is At the Sea’s Edge (Duke University Press), which considers colonial oceanic transits and the generative space between land and sea. She is on the Social Text Collective, serves as co-director of the Queer Aqui Project at Columbia University, and is on the executive editor board of GLQ. She received the Pratt Institute Research Recognition Award (2021–22) and the University of California, Santa Cruz Distinguished Alumni Award (2021–22). She is the author of dozens of esssays and curatorial events. She was founder and director of Global South Center, NYC. She organizes a new series called Writing Media Now hosted by the Department of Modern Culture and Media.

Mingwei Huang is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, migration, colonialism, and capitalism and Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her first book, Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century (Duke University Press, 2024), is an ethnography of contemporary Chinese world-making in Johannesburg, South Africa. It explores racial formations, racial accumulation, and capitalist exploitation in the 21st “Chinese Century,” while situating these emergent forms in longer histories of Euro-American empire-making and global racial hierarchies. Huang’s new project, “Colonial Inheritances, Planetary Futures,” examines contemporary artisanal mining and anti-extraction activism in South Africa alongside mining archives toward unearthing relational histories of extraction, indenture, and migrant labor that shape the planetary present and future.

Cherod Johnson is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Environmental Humanities at Brown University. They are a Black queer literary critic, writer, and visual artist. Their interdisciplinary work spans the 19th to the 21st centuries and includes African American literature, visual culture, and documentary film. Their research focuses on Black queer ecologies, decolonial theories of the Anthropocene, and the everyday ruptures that shape Black diasporic thought and its aesthetic expressions. Their current book manuscript explores how Black cultural producers address climate change and the environmental aftermath of slavery through hypervigilant acts of weathering, drawing our attention to the social drama of rescue and the limitations of repair. They received their Ph.D. in African Diaspora Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2025, where they were awarded a university-wide prize for excellence in teaching. They teach courses on the Black outdoors, Black ecologies, and Black queer film and literature, paying particular attention to the U.S. South and the Caribbean. Their work has appeared in Souls, The Diaspora, and QED.

Alex A. Moulton is Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Science at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), and a member of the faculty in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program and the Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. His research examines Black geographies, ecological justice, community resource governance, landscape legacies of colonization, and political ecology of environmental change. He is the co-editor of Political Ecologies of Futurity: Storytelling Plantation Afterlives, Climate Erasures, and Socioecological Justice (Bloomsbury, 2025). His work has been published in journals such as Environmental Humanities, Environment and Society, Geography Compass, and Sociology Compass, as well as several edited volumes.

Inge Salo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, Worcester, MA. Her dissertation research focuses on the experiences of Black women who worked in Cape Town’s clothing factories during apartheid to understand broader political, economic, and social processes happening in South Africa at the time. She draws on women’s oral histories, their personal archival material, and her own experience of job-shadowing with the women to document their experiences. She is also a lecturer in Geography at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students about topics in Human Geography including Environmental Justice. She was born and raised in Cape Town and currently lives in Johannesburg.

Daniel Selwyn is an educator and researcher with the London Mining Network (LMN), an alliance of more than 20 organisations working to expose human rights abuses and environmental crimes committed by mining companies based in London, which campaigns alongside and in solidarity with affected communities for social justice, human rights, and the ecological integrity of the planet. His research focuses on the intersections between resource extraction, militarism, warfare and the arms trade, and British imperialism and capitalism. He is also a geography and politics teacher at a secondary school in London, where he is a workplace organiser for the National Education Union. As a trade unionist, he also serves as a district officer and the Vice-Chair of the NEU London International Solidarity Network.

Eda Tarak is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Environmental Humanities at Brown University. Her research and teaching bring together environmental anthropology, multispecies ethnography, and feminist economic anthropology with a focus on experimental ethnographic methods. Her current book project, titled “The Sea is Not Empty: Maritime Trade Ecologies in the Eastern Mediterranean,” centers on the intersection of abrupt environmental shifts and coastal industrial development routed through the travels of cargo ships and the materiality of political-economy in Turkey and in the Eastern Mediterranean. This book will search for ways to attend to land and sea, blockages, flows, and overflows that signal the movement of waste and toxicity in the mixes of soil, sediment, and water. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2024 and an M.A. in Sociology from Bogazici University in Istanbul in 2017. During 2024–25 she held the Shauna M. Stark ’76, P’10 Postdoctoral Fellow position in the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University.