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257 Contributors Volume Editors Elisa Facio is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she teaches courses on Chicana Feminist Thought, Chicana Indígena Spiritualities, transnational issues related to gender, race, and sexuality focusing on Cuba, and Age, Aging, and Generations. Elisa received her BA with honors in sociology from Santa Clara University and an MA and PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Elisa’s academic work is published in academic journals, anthologies , and encyclopedias, and her book on older Chicana/Mexican women titled Understanding Older Chicanas: Sociological and Policy Perspectives was published by SAGE in 1996. In collaboration with departmental colleagues Arturo J. Aldama, Reiland Rabaka, and Daryl Maeda, she coedited the anthology Enduring Legacies: Ethnic Histories and Cultures of Colorado (2011), to which she also contributed an essay. The American Sociological Association recognized her work on Cuban sex workers as an Outstanding Scholarly Contribution. Elisa is completing a manuscript tentatively titled Race, Gender and Sexuality in Post-Soviet Cuba. She is also a promotora working with older Mexicana/o, Chicana/o, and Hispana/o populations in Colorado. Irene Lara is a Chicana scholar, writer, and teacher who recently celebrated her ten-year anniversary as a professor. She graduated from Stanford University with an Honors BA in American Studies, then the University of California-Berkeley with a PhD in Ethnic Studies and Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and has served as an assistant then associate professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. Her scholarship on Chicana/Latina/Indigenous spirituality, healing, pedagogy , and cultural productions is published in journals such as Feminist Studies, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, and Women and Therapy, and in anthologies such as this bridge we call home: visions for radical transformation (2002) and Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life: Feminista Perspectives on Pedagogy and Epistemology (2006). She is currently writing a book titled Decolonizing the Sacred: Chicana/Latina Spirituality, Sexuality , and Healing and coediting a humanities-based Women’s Studies textbook. As part of her work as a “CuranderaScholarActivist,” Irene loves to cofacilitate the spiritual activist/ reproductive justice workshop, “Panocha Pláticas: Healing Sex and Sexuality in Community ,” and guide her students in the “CuranderaScholarActivists in Academia” 258 · Contributors Faculty-Student Mentor Program seminar. She also loves being mami to her beautiful daughters Xóchitl and Belén. Chapter Authors Angelita Borbón is a descendant of the Original Peoples of the land in southern Arizona and northern Mexico called the Sonoran Desert. She is a copper miner’s daughter from a mining camp now a ghost town called El Tigre where she learned to never leave a baseball game before it is over because anything can happen, and never ever cross a picket line. Her belief in the possibility of the impossible, her respect for organized action, and the cultural and spiritual teachings of her Indigenous family form the conceptual framework of her Life and Work. In 1978, her education as a public health nurse at the University of Arizona in Tucson included a semester of independent studies in central Mexico where she worked with physicians and traditional healers practicing the Ancient Science and Medicine of Mexico. One of her experiences was living in the mountains with a partera/midwife, who blessed Angelita’s hands and said, “Hija, whatever you do in your life, from now on, you do it as a midwife.” Angelita is the midwife/creator of Conciencia Scientific Dialogue, an Indigenous methodology and practice designed to awaken consciousness and conscience. Norma E. Cantú recently retired as a Professor of English and US Latina/o Literatures at the University of Texas at San Antonio to build a Latina and Latino Studies program at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She received her PhD from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. As editor of two book series—Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Tradition at Texas A&M University Press and Literatures of the Americas at Palgrave—she promotes the publication of research on literature and culture. She is the author of the award-winning Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (1995), and coeditor of Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (2001), Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change (2002), Dancing Across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos (2009), Inside the Latin@ Experience: A Latin@ Studies Reader (2010), and El...