Stefan Rinke is Dr. phil. and Dr. phil. habil by the Catholic University of Eichstätt. He is Professor of Latin American History and Director of the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. He was president of AHILA from 2014 to 2017. In 2017 he was awarded the José Antonio Alzate Prize from the Academica Mexicana de Ciencias and CONACYT and received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de San Martín.

Werner Mackenbach tiene un Doctorado en Filosofía y Ciencias Sociales de la Freie Universität Berlin y una “Habilitation” (postdoctorado) en Literatura Hispanoamericana de la Universität Potsdam. Es profesor de la Escuela de Historia, del Programa de Posgrado en Historia e investigador del Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de América Central (CIHAC) de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Ha publicado numerosos trabajos sobre literatura, cultura e historia centroamericana y caribeña.

Diana Negrín is a geographer and curator who, since 2001, has conducted ethnographic and archival research in Mexico with a primary focus on Wixarika Indigenous territory.  Negrín's scholarship engages human and cultural geography, critical race and decolonial theory, and political ecology, in combination with participatory methodologies. Her current research examines how biocultural perspectives and projects are creating opportunities to conserve and regenerate sacred Wixárika territory.