Rachel Lee, Professor of English, Gender Studies, and the Institute of Society and Genetics, UCLA.  Past positions: Director, Barbara Streisand Center for the Study of Women (2015-2020); Visiting Assistant Professor, Caltech (2003). Ph.D. received in English Literature, UCLA, 1995. Research Interests: Race and Settler-Colonialism Studies, Narrative & Poetry, Oral History, Performance Studies, Embodiment & Affect, Reproductive Labor, Environmental Illness, Mold, Taiwan Studies, Asian American Culture, Health Humanities, Disability Studies.Awards: 2016 Best Book in Cultural Studies for The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies  (NY: NYU Press); Co-PI of UC Multicampus Research Programs & Initiative Grant, “Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice: Mapping Inequity and Renewing the Social” (2023-25); UCHRI Residential Research Fellow, “How We Make It: Imagining Medical Justice After Covid's Long Haul” (2022); UCLA Chancellor’s Community Engagement Fellowship, 2020-21.

Abraham Encinas is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English at UCLA. His research is in 20th century and contemporary American Hemispheric Literature, novels of dictatorship, Latin American Literature, genre fiction, and migrant diasporic experiences. He is also a translator and writing consultant.

Lesley Thulin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at UCLA, where she works on eighteenth-century and Romantic literature, disability studies, and health humanities. She is a Graduate Student Researcher on a multi-campus research grant at the University of California on “Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice.”