Entre el Sur y el Norte

Marco Cervantes, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Mexican American Studies Program at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has published in the American Quarterly, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, Association of Mexican American Educators, and Liminalities: Journal of Performance Studies. He is a DJ, producer, and MC and goes by the name Mex Step. He is also in the hip hop group Third Root. Lilliana P. Saldaña, Ph.D. is from Yanawana, an occupied territory known as San Antonio, Texas, and is Associate Professor of Mexican American Studies (MAS) at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Saldaña's research draws from Chicana/x/o studies methodologies, decolonial theory, and Chicana feminist thought to examine teacher identity and consciousness, epistemic struggles in education, and settler colonial/decolonial schooling practices. She has published in nationally recognized journals, including Latinos & Education, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, and Association of Mexican American Educators. Saldaña has collaborated on statewide organizing efforts to expand MAS in Texas K-12 schools through Somos MAS and the regional chapter of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. As a public scholar, she also serves the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, which promotes social justice through cultural arts programming and historical preservation, and the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute (MACRI), a national organization dedicated to chronicling and sharing historic and contemporary civil rights milestones.