San is passionate about developing and using an intersectionality framework in healing spaces, faith communities, and work where the BIPOC community is continuously harmed. Her heart and desire is to help foster and establish an understanding of healing justice as a necessary component of social justice and racial equity, so that, as Cara Page writes, "healing justice can move from being symbolic to actionable work.”

Jesus is a DREAMer from Los Mochis Sinaloa, Mexico, and has been living in Fort Collins since 2008. He attended Fossil Ridge High School and is currently a theater major at Colorado State University. He worked as the program coordinator for Fuerza Latina and is currently Director of the Adelante Program and Workforce Initiatives at ISAAC of Northern Colorado. He is also the 2023 SOL (Soul of Leadership) Award recipient from the Latino Community Foundation of Colorado. Fun fact about Jesus: he danced on stage with Katy Perry once!

Renā Trujillo identifies as a queer, multiracial, and multicultural human. One who is doing their best to put the human in being. Their worldview and world experience has been impacted by the U.S. foster-care system and shaped through communal upbringing with Samoan, Latinx, and Diné elders in Southwestern, Colorado. She recently graduated from Colorado State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Ethnic Studies and a minor in Women’s Studies. He believes there is power/action potential that lies at the intersection(s) of embodiment work, land-based practices, and social and environmental justice. Hobbies include hiking, fishing, hunting, foraging, creative resistance through art, dancing, eating, and attending music concerts. They are a proud plant and puppy companion– oh and uncle/aunt to ten nephews and nieces.

Dr. Caridad Souza is the Director of the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research at Colorado State University. Her teaching and research interests include contemporary race & ethnic relations and theories, women, children, & poverty, multiracial and decolonial feminisms, and critical ethnography. Her intellectual interests involve intersectional well-being and inequality (race, class, gender, and sexuality), and she has worked on gender equity at CSU on various committees including the President’s Commission on Women and Gender Equity and the Standing Committee on the Status of Women Faculty. She is fascinated with the concept of social healing towards a more equitable, just, and free society.