Iris Morales is an activist, educator, filmmaker, and author. Her work focuses on issues of poverty, racial and gender justice, climate change, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico. For several decades, she has been an organizer and activist in social justice movements. Currently, as founder and editor of Red Sugarcane Press, she produces books and projects about the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and people of color in the Americas.

Her recent book about feminist activism, Revisiting Herstories: The Young Lords Party, combines an insider’s perspective with primary sources and research. Morales is also co-author of Vicki and A Summer of Change, a bilingual children’s book, and she is the anthologist of Voices from Puerto Rico: Post-Hurricane María and Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA. These works document overlooked histories, seeking to inspire activism for a more just future.

Natalia Lassalle-Morillo is a theater director, filmmaker, performer, visual artist, and educator whose work reconstructs history through a transdisciplinary approach to research, form, and narrative. Melding theatrical performance, intuitive experimental ethnography, and collaborations with non-trained performers, Natalia’s practice centers on excavating imagined and archived history. She decentralizes canonical narratives through embodied reenactments and challenges the priority of written history by foregrounding the creation of new mythologies.

Natalia earned an MFA in Theater Directing from CalArts and a BFA in Drama from the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her work is part of the KADIST collection and has been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Santa Cruz), SeMA (Seoul), MOD Theater (CalArts, Los Angeles), and the USF Contemporary Art Museum (Tampa), among others. Natalia was born in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, and is currently based between San Juan, Puerto Rico, and New York City.