Abigail Andrews is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mexican Migration Field Research Program at UCSD. She received her BA in American Studies and Spanish from Amherst College and her MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Her principal research interests are in gender, migration, and political sociology, with a focus on Mexico, Central America, and the United States. She brings a global, feminist lens to her work, and she is committed to community-engaged teaching for immigrant and climate justice.



Andrea Dyrness is an Associate Professor in Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice, and a faculty affiliate in Anthropology and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research investigates how young people growing up in transnational communities, particularly in Latin American and Caribbean diasporas, learn to belong, participate and work for change in multiple national communities, and the spaces and practices that support their critical citizenship formation. Her latest book, Border Thinking: Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) was awarded the Outstanding Book Award for 2020 by the Council on Anthropology and Education of the American Anthropological Association. Dr. Dyrness is also the author of Mothers United: An Immigrant Struggle for Socially Just Education (Univ of Minnesota Press, 2011), and has published in Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education, and other journals. She is currently an Associate Editor for AERA Open.