Crossing with the Virgin: Stories from the Migrant Trail

About the Authors, About the Contributors, Back Cover

About the Authors KATHRYN FERGUSON is a dancer, choreographer, and independent filmmaker . She studied modern and ethnic dance and music in the United States, Morocco, and Cairo. She teaches dance at her studio in Tucson, Arizona. She has toured and performed in eleven countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, Turkey, and Mexico. As a filmmaker , she has produced dance videos that are available internationally. After traveling much of her life in Mexico and spending years in Chihuahua ’s Sierra Madre, she produced and directed two feature-length award-winning documentaries, The Unholy Tarahumara and Rita of the Sky. She worked in media for PBS KUAT-TV for four years. As a native Tucsonan, she has had a lifelong concern and love for the borderlands. Since the year 2004, she has volunteered with Samaritans to work in the desert to prevent deaths. TED PARKS became involved with the Samaritan movement in the fall of 2005. He worked in the restaurant industry for twenty years, including eight years as the owner of a restaurant in Tucson, Arizona. He is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and has appeared in numerous film and television roles. A founding member of the Theatre of N.O.T.E., he attended the University of California, Irvine, and has produced, directed, or acted in over fifty plays. He continues to witness the travesty of social injustice from the porch of the railroad house near the Nogales line in South Tucson. NORMA PRICE has lived for over a decade in southern Arizona and has become a true denizen of the desert. Since moving to Tucson, she has embraced Southwest culture, enjoying many outdoor activities and the proximity to Mexico. Before moving to Tucson she practiced medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, for twenty-five years. Norma graduated from the University of Tennessee School of Medicine in Memphis, Tennessee, where she also completed internship and residency in internal medicine, followed by a fellowship in hematology . Subsequent oncology fellowships at M. D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas, and Emory University Hospital and Clinic in Atlanta completed her medical training. Norma volunteers at a local medical clinic for the uninsured. She remains committed to the work of Samaritans and other humanitarian and activist groups that focus on border issues. She lives with her husband , Stan Windham, in Tucson, Arizona. 212 about the authors About the Contributors CLAUDIA ABURTO GUZMÁN is an associate professor of Spanish at Bates College, Maine. She focuses on Latin American literatures and cultures, Mexico–U.S. literatures and cultures, and translation differences at the Mexico–U.S. border. Her creative writing has been published by various Spanish-language presses and journals, and her photography and mixed-media projects have been shown in the Tucson Sector of the U.S. borderlands. JOHN FIFE is the retired pastor of Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson where he served for thirty-five years. He was cofounder of the Sanctuary Movement in the 1980s and served as the elected leader of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in 1992. He is a founding member of Humane Borders, Samaritans, and No More Deaths, and volunteers with the Raptor Free Flight program at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. ...