Krysta Williams (interviewer) is a founding member of PARCEO and currently lives in the Berkeley, CA. Krysta has worked nationally and internationally as a community educator and public school teacher. She is a founding member and former director of the San Jose, Costa Rica based Centro de Tutoría, an educational resource center that addresses community-identified needs, including literacy training, tutoring, the first lending library, youth mentorships, and sports programs. Most recently, she led the shift in culture, policy, and trainings at Zenger Farm as the Equity and Inclusion Manager. Krysta continues to serve as a community organizer and advocate for social justice, especially food justice, through working with organizations to develop inclusive, participatory structures for community leadership. She is part of the Portland Black Food Sovereignty Council and the African American Leadership Forum. Krysta holds a Masters in Educational Leadership, Politics, and Advocacy from NYU/Steinhardt.
Donna Nevel (co-editor of the interview) currently lives in Miami Beach, FL. She is a community psychologist and educator and co-founder of PARCEO. She is also an organizer and writer on social justice issues, with a particular focus on challenging anti-Muslim racism; justice in Palestine/Israel; racial justice; and the power of community education. She taught Participatory Action Research (PAR) for many years at Steinhardt School of Education, New York University, Educational Leadership Program. She received her Ph.D. in community psychology with a specialization in migration studies and community education from Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2004 and her M.A. in educational leadership, with a specialization in adult literacy, from Bank Street Graduate School, New York City, NY, 1991.
Chloe Villalobos, (translator and co-editor of the interview) lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she works alongside different collectives to help organize platforms for transnational solidarity among artists and activists. She also recently helped coordinate a network of favela-based socio-environmental justice projects and engaged in PAR to help strengthen community-based solutions. She completed a Masters in Human Rights at the Paris School of International Affairs (SciencesPo) with a regional concentration in Latin America.