Dr. Liz Przybylski is as ethnographer and a interdisciplinary scholar of popular music, specializing in hip hop practices in Canada and the United States, with a focus on Indigenous popular music. She is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Riverside. Her 2020 book, Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between develops an innovative model of hybrid on- and off-line ethnography for the analysis of expressive culture.

Dr. Lillian Gorman is a researcher, Spanish heritage language learner and teacher, and a proud Chicana and Nuevomexicana from Albuquerque. In this conversation, we speak with her about language, pride within Spanish heritage language learning, language and identity in northern New Mexican families, and the dialogue between nuevomexicanos and other Latino communities in the US.

Anita Rodriguez is a mother, a painter, a construction worker, an enjarradora, and a writer from Taos. In this conversation, cultural representation, historic trauma and community work all play a part in informing the understanding of the current Northern New Mexican culture.

Tomas van Houtryve is a Paris based artist, photographer and filmmaker whose major works interweave investigative journalism, philosophy and metaphor. One of van Houtryve’s latest works confronts America’s collective historic amnesia, bringing stories of the “Far West”, that are often untold, to the light. The conversation with Tomas van Houtryve explores the processes related to his documenting work.

Joanna Keane Lopez is a multidisciplinary artist whose work brings together large scale installation, adobe architecture and sculpture as a reimagining of landscape and place. By working with materials of adobe, alíz, paper and natural dyes her practice acts to address conceptions of sculpture in engagement with land.

Delinda VanneBrightyn is the President of Taos Search and Rescue. For almost 20 years, she has been helping find missing persons and strengthening the structure of the organization itself. She shares her expertise on the rescue process and her unique understanding of dogs as working companions.

Bianca Manuelita Encinias’ research addresses and deconstructs inaccurate historical images, perspectives, and interpretations of Mestiza, Mexican, Spanish, and Nuevamexicana women from northeastern New Mexico in the field of planning. She is the owner of El Chante: Casa de Cultura, a community gathering space in Albuquerque, New Mexico with an emphasis on community-based economic development focusing on the promotion and development of local artists, art, and crafts. She is also the Executive Director of the South Valley MainStreet, which is a grassroots economic development organization that assists the South Valley community in revitalizing its commercial district.

Sandy Rodriguez is a Los Angeles-based artist and researcher.

Her Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón is made up of a collection of maps and paintings about the intersections of history, social memory, contemporary politics, and cultural production. The series pays homage to Indigenous artists and the history of migration between the Americas and raises awareness about immigration injustices. She was raised in San Diego, Tijuana, and Los Angeles. Rodriguez has exhibited at a number of museums and cultural institutions, including current exhibitions at Denver Art Museum, The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Garden, The Amon Carter Museum of American Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Street Safe is an all-volunteer, non-profit striving to reduce the harmful consequences associated with life on the street. Most of the women served have been victims of sex-trafficking, while others have struggled with homelessness and addiction. Please note that this episode contains depictions of violence that some people may find disturbing or difficult to listen to.

Dr. Christine Ami is a Diné College Associate Professor in the School of Business and Social Sciences where she teaches Indigenous Research Methodologies, Ethnographic Methods, and Indigenous Anthropology classes. Her dissertation is titled “Díí jí nída’iil’ah : A Study of Traditional Navajo Butchering.” She recently received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, to further her research into a book surrounding the practice of sheep butchering in Diné history and culture.