Sandra is a lecturer and researcher affiliated with the specialist area of Language and Education in the Inter-University Doctoral Programme. She is co-director of an inter-university research group on Discourse Studies with a focus on Discourse, Discrimination and School. With a PhD in Linguistics and Communication from the Universidad de Barcelona , her research interests focus on issues such as racism and gender discrimination, through the perspective of critical discourse analysis. Her publications include, “Discurso y género en historias de vida” (2004), “Racismo discursivo de élite en los textos escolares de ciencias sociales” (2006) y “Racismo y discurso en Colombia: cinco siglos de invisibilidad y exclusión” (2007), “¡Mira, un negro! Elementos para pensar el racismo y la resistencia” (2019) y “Andariegas y luchadoras. Narrativas de resistencia de lideresas sociales del Chocó” (2022, co-authored with María Isabel Mena).

José Magro is Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of Maryland, College Park, where he works on antiracist curriculum development and teaches all levels of Spanish and Sociolinguistics courses. With a Ph.D. in Hispanic linguistics, a M.Ed., and a B.S. in Social Psychology, Dr. Magro specializes in Critical Applied Sociolinguistics. His research interests are Critical (Antiracist) Pedagogies, Hip-Hop Pedagogies, Second and Heritage Language Learning and Teaching, Bilingualism, Language and Identity, Language Ideologies, and Spanish in the USA. He has published book chapters and articles in journals such as Linguistics and Education and the Journal of Sociolinguistics. His book, Language and antiracism: An antiracist approach to teaching (Spanish) language in the USA, was published by Multilingual Matters in 2023.

Joan M. Oleaque is a journalist, writer and Dean of the Facultad de Artes, Humanidades y Comunicación in Universidad Internacional de Valencia (VIU). He has been editor of the weekly magazine, El Temps, and is a regular contributor to El País. Oleaque is the autor of two books,  Desde la tiniebla. Un descenso al caso Alcàsser (Diagonal, 2002) y En éxtasis. El bakalao como contracultura en España (Barlin Libros, 2017). He holds a PhD in Communication Studies, with a doctoral thesis about the media stereotypes that characterise the Romani ethnic group, to which he belongs.