Emily Fjaellen Thompson is a Ph.D. Candidate in socio-cultural anthropology. Her dissertation considers the use and lives of images, particularly unpublished photographs, in the wake of the Peruvian internal armed conflict. As a Fulbright DDRA-Hays Fellow in Peru, she focused on the relationship between photography and memory, and how images enable us to construct narratives around traumatic pasts. She earned her bachelor's degree in Latin American and Latino/a Studies from Vassar College, where she was awarded the Burnam Fellowship for work on the U.S.-Mexico border...
Michelle Zaragoza, LCSW (she/ella), is a Ph.D. student in Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. Centering on well-being among Latinx and immigrant communities, her research interests lie at the intersection of immigration and mental health. Her current work employs arts-based methods and storytelling to investigate the experiences and conceptualizations of mental health among Central American unaccompanied immigrant youth living in the Bay Area. Her research aims to better understand the lived experiences of Latinx communities to develop culturally relevant and...
