Elisa Loncon is an internationally renowned Indigenous and environmental rights activist and an associate professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Santiago, Chile. She holds a PhD in Humanities from the University of Leiden (2017) and doctoral degree in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In 2021, she was elected to represent the Mapuche people in the Chilean Constitutional Convention and then served as the Convention's first president. That same year, she was awarded the René Cassin Human Rights Award from the Basque Government in recognition of her substantial contributions to the defence of human rights. TIME magazine named her one of the world's "100 Most Influential People" and she was also recognized by the Financial Times as one of the "25 Most Influential Women of 2021." Juan Francisco Salazar is a professor of communication and media and the director of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia. He was born in Santiago, Chile, and migrated to Sydney in 1998, where he has since become an interdisciplinary researcher, author, and documentary filmmaker whose work explores social-ecological change. He has developed pioneering Indigenous media projects and has worked with communities and organizations in Australia, Chile, Colombia, Fiji, Vanuatu, Mexico, and Antarctica.

His creative work has been shown at prestigious venues and festivals including the Venice Biennale, Serpentine Galleries in London, and Biennale of Sydney. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Public Humanities, The Polar Journal, Media+Environment and Cultural Anthropology.