Aleida García Aguirre is an independent history researcher specializing in the study of processes of subjectivation of young revolutionaries in Mexico and Latin America during the seventies, and the social history of student movements and armed organizations in provincial Mexico during the Cold War. Her methodologies and theory are rooted in history from below, social history, oral history, and the studies of memory and the narratives of the self. She has been awarded a Doctoral Scholarship by the Ministry of Education of Argentina, a Fulbright Scholarship, and has worked as a professor in various institutions in Mexico, and in Human Rights Research for the Mexican Secretaría de Gobernación (Secretariat of the Interior). She is the author of Memorias inquietas. De estudiantes rurales a guerrilleros urbanos (Restless Memories: From Rural Students to Urban Guerrillas). She lives in Oakland, California.

Molly Vine became a UAW member while earning an MFA in documentary film at San Francisco State University. Following grad school, she directed and produced documentaries related to labor and social movements. She then went on to become one of the lead organizers in the 2022 UAW strike at UC. Molly now works as a UAW organizer focused on helping workers form new unions and lives in Oakland.

Patrick Dexter became a member of UAW 2865 while earning a masters of urban and regional planning degree at UCLA. In 2020 he joined the campaign to form Student Researchers United-UAW and then became a lead organizer with UC-UAW during the 2022 strike. He now works as an organizer for UAW Region 6 and lives in Los Angeles.