Damián Baca is Associate Professor of English and Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona and faculty with the Bread Loaf Graduate School of English in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is author of Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing (2008) and lead editor of Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114BCE to 2012CE (2010).

Ellen Cushman is Dean's Professor of Civic Sustainability and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she is the author of The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People's Perseverance (2012) and coeditor of the forthcoming 2nd edition of Literacies: A Critical Sourcebook (with Christina Haas and Mike Rose).

Jonathan Osborne is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Northeastern University. His research interests include African American rhetorics and modern/postmodern rhetorical theory, with a focus on Black conservative rhetoric and critical race theory.