Issac Rivera (Chicano, Huichol) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington, member of the Colorado American Indian Movement and council member for the Fourth World Center for the Study of Indigenous Law and Politics. He participated in the 2019 Summer Institute for Global Indigeneities, 2019 Simpson Center Summer Fellowship on the Digital Humanities, and is currently an AIIS Scholar with the Center for American Indian & Indigenous Studies (CAIIS).
Alika Bourgette is a PhD student in the University of Washington Department of
History. His dissertation research investigates Native space-making, gender, and kinship in Kakaʻako, Honolulu in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He participated in the 2019 Summer Institute for Global Indigeneities, 2020 Simpson Center Mellon Summer Fellowship for Collaboration in the Humanities, and received the 2019-2020 Yale University LGBT Studies Fellowship. His upcoming book chapter, titled “Kanaka Waikīkī: The Stonewall Gang and Beachboys of O'ahu, 1916-1954,” has received publication in Keith Camacho’s Reppin’: Pacific Islander Youth and Native Justice with University of Washington Press (April 2021).