M. Jenea Sanchez was born and raised in Douglas, AZ/Agua Prieta, Sonora. After receiving her master of fine arts from Arizona State University in 2011, she returned to Douglas to pursue her career as an artist and educator. She is a fellow of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture’s Leadership Institute, a 2020–2021 NALAC Catalyst for Change Award recipient, a 2019–2020 Mellon-Fronteridades Creative Scholar at the UofA’s Confluence Center, and currently a faculty member at Cochise College in the Digital Media Arts Program. Sanchez’s work has been exhibited at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SmoCA), the University of Arizona Art Museum, The Latino Museum of History, Art, and Culture, The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, and the United States/Mexico border fence. She and her husband are the co-founders of Border Arts Corridor (BAC), a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit arts organization providing the borderlands community an immersive arts district through bi-national artwalks, workshops, performances, public dialogues, and artist residencies. BAC was awarded a Governor’s Arts Award in 2020 and has been featured in The New York Times for producing bi-national art installations and performances on the United States/Mexico border.

Gabriela Muñoz is an artist whose work is rooted in her experiences as a migrant who lived in Arizona, undocumented, for more than a decade. A Latinx woman living in the Southwest, her practice is concerned with movements of social justice and racial equality. Her installations, printed works and collaborations function as a growing archive that documents stories and histories of individuals from communities that are under resourced and underestimated. Her work centers women of color and the spaces where they build a counternarrative that values power-sharing, peer-to-peer learning and horizontal leadership models. An artist in service of other artists, Muñoz’s work as an arts administrator supports the development of BIPOC artists and culture bearers in the Southwest region through the development of artist-centric programs, grantmaking, and creative partnerships. Muñoz is a 2020–2021 NALAC Catalyst for Change Award recipient, a 2019–2020 Mellon-Fronteridades Creative Scholar at the UofA’s Confluence Center, and is a fellow of both the Intercultural Leadership Institute and the NALAC Leadership Institute. Her work has been exhibited at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SmoCA), the University of Arizona Art Museum, Juniata Museum of Art, the Mexican Consulate in Douglas, The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, and the United States/Mexico border fence.

DouglaPrieta Trabajan (DPT) began in 2003 as a grassroots self-help project in Agua Prieta, Sonora, just across the border from Douglas, Arizona. DPT’s purpose has always been to assist individuals and families in colonias populares, or poor neighborhoods, by developing local capacities for economic self-sufficiency. DPT operates under the belief that communities can cultivate solidarity and self-determination by making local neighborhoods more productive. Today, the centerpiece of the program is a permaculture demonstration site designed to teach families sustainable food production techniques, including gardening, aquaculture, and small livestock raising. The goal is to reduce the cost of living and at the same time build an ethic of mutual aid among neighbors in order to reduce dependency on weak job markets, government assistance, charity, and border crossing. DPT members include, but are not limited to: Bertha Alicia Alvarado A., Dulce Guadalupe Garcia A, Hijinia Arce, Trinidad Anguamea Brasil, Rosalinda Sagaste Chavez, Matilde Sagaste, and Victoria Guadalupe Niebles Valenzuela.

Ammi Robles was born in Mexico, and raised in Agua Prieta, Sonora, a border town just a step away from the United States. Being presented with a border culture has allowed her to document life in both worlds through her artwork. Robles recently graduated from college in Arizona with an associate degree in communications. She currently works as a digital artist, performer, and photographer and aspires to pursue a career in acting and filmmaking. Her photography work has been showcased in Flagstaff, AZ, at the BORDER CROSS+ROADS exhibit featuring United States/Mexico Border Artists in Action, and her photographs were published by Yes! Magazine in the article “Border Wall Trumped by Art and Community.” Also, her short film Once Upon a Time en la Frontera was selected to be part of the screening “Muestra de Cine en la Frontera Sonora-Arizona.” As an English-Spanish interpreter, Robles has done work for organizations such as Alight (American Refugee Committee) and CAME (Migrant Shelter). Robles is a member and co-founder of a group of women artists from Sonora and Arizona called Las Fronterizas, where she participates as a creator, interpreter, coordinator, performer, and digital artist.