Jorge A. Bustamante is a Mexican sociologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, where he also holds an endowed chair (Eugene Conley Professor of Sociology) since 1986. He was also President of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, a research and degree granting institute located in Tijuana, Mexico, from its creation in 1982 until January of 1998. He has more than 200 publications in scholarly journals of the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Venezuela, Spain and Mexico. The majority of these publications are research reports on: Mexican immigration to the United States , US-Mexico border phenomena and US-Mexico relations. Dr. Bustamante has been quoted as a leading expert in the field of international migrations by most major newspapers in the United States , as well as in his appearances in T.V. programs such as Night Line, 60 Minutes and the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour. Appointed as UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants as of July 29 2005. On January 3 of 2005 The Permanent Committee (Comisión Permanente) of the Legislative Power of México produced a resolution which was voted unanimously to nominate Dr. Jorge A. Bustamante for the Peace Nobel Price. On January 14 Dr. Bustamante was notified by the President of the American Sociological Association that he was selected as the 2007 recipient of the DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award, one of the two highest granted to a sociologist in the United States. (Human Rights & Walls)

Felix D. Almaraz, Jr., Ph.D., is the Peter T. Flawn Distinguished Professor of Borderlands History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is an alumnus of St. Mary's University (BA '59. MA 62) and the University of New Mexico (History, '68). He has taught for 49 years and is an author, actor, Chautauqua performer (living history) and native-born Tejano friend of descendents of the Canary Islands settlers who, in 1731, established municipal government in Texas. Those early settlers constructed walls in Spanish colonial San Antonio. (History & Walls)

Salwa A. Arnous was born in Jaffa Palestine, her family fled Palestine in 1948 to find a home. Her family moved to Beirut and later settled in Cairo. Her house hold responsibilities as a child was to produce the designs for the table clothes, bed sheets, pillow cases, skirts, dresses, and blouses for the family and her three sisters. Salwa grew up married and moved to Kuwait. After seven years in Kuwait, Salwa, her husband and three children moved to America (Missouri, Ohio, Colorado then Texas). Once in America Salwa went back to school to get her Bachelors degree in fine art. She has been expressing her feelings through her paintings to represent the Palestinian people. Her main topic is focused on the failing and mired peace talks between Palestinian and Israeli leadership and the people they represent. Further, as a female artist, Salwa is intently interested in women's issues. Through her work, she attempts to represent the universal struggles and personal victories women around the world share. On a personal note, Salwa loves traveling and photography. She has spent three months touring China, four months in Italy and at least one month in Germany, Greece, Turkey, and Bulgaria. (Judge, Art Exhibit)

Jarrod Atchison, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication and Director of Debate at Trinity University. He offers classes in argumentation, forensics, and political communication. His research focuses on nineteenth century American public address with an emphasis on the public discourse surrounding the Civil War. (Public Policy Debate)

Ana Baer-Carrillo has been nationally and internationally active as a choreographer, dancer, and video-artist since 1992. She holds a Licentiate of Choreography from the Centro Nacional de las Artes, in Mexico City. In 2000 she moved from Mexico to the United States and attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, from which she received her MFA in Dance with an emphasis in Video Dance. In 2003 she co-founded Avant Media Performance with Randy Gibson. In 2005 she co-founded The Sans Souci International Festival of Projected Dance with Michelle Ellsworth. She is currently an assistant professor of dance at Texas State University in San Marcos. (Performance & Walls)

Wayne Bartholomew is director of the Weslaco, Texas–based Frontera Audubon. (Environment & Walls)

Norman A. Beck, Ph.D. is an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America pastor. He is a Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Professor, and writes and speaks about the relationships between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Also, he is the Poehlmann Professor of Theology and Classical Languages and the Chairman of the Department of Theology and Philosophy at Texas Lutheran University. (Theology & Walls)

Joseph Bravo earned his BA in Humanities and his MA in Art History and Criticism at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He worked throughout much of the 1990's in various capacities at the San Antonio Museum of Art including as an Associate Curator of Antiquities, an Assistant Registrar and as the Coordinator of School Programming. Mr. Bravo curated the permanent exhibition of Oceanic Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Other exhibits curated by Mr. Bravo include Eighteenth Century Irish Silver, permanent exhibit, The San Antonio Museum of Art, Roman Imperial Coinage, permanent exhibit, San Antonio Museum of Art, and Henri Fantin Latour, Focus Gallery, The San Antonio Museum of Art (co-curated with Dr. Gerry Dee Scott, III.) Other publications by Mr. Bravo include Three Days in Mexico: Magic, Music and Mezcal, and Oceanic Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Context vs. Aesthetics. Joseph Bravo is currently a fulltime instructor of Art History at the University of the Incarnate Word and operates Bravo Fine Art, an independent fine arts consulting firm. (Art II & Walls; Judge, Art Exhibit) Katherine Thornton Brown is an international found-object collage-assemblage artist. She has exhibited her work in the United States, Italy and Mexico and teaches collage-assemblage workshops, photoshop and digital-hybrid printing. She has a BA in Fine Arts from UTSA, concentrating in digital printmaking and photography, and studied summers in Florence, Italy at the Santa Reparata Graphic Arts Center under printmaker Dennis Olsen. (Judge, Art Exhibit)

Rachel Brownlee is a junior year International Studies and Art student at Trinity University. In addition to serving as Campaign Co-Manager for Trinity's's Amnesty International Chapter, she spends time volunteering with Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity, San Antonio Youth Literacy, and the Refugee, Asylee, and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services. She currently works at Inspire Community Fine Art Center. (Refuge & Walls)

Since 2002, Alyssa Burgin has been the outreach and media director of Texans for Peace, the state's largest peace and justice organization. She holds a master's degree in communications (journalism) from the University of Texas, and has worked as press advance in presidential campaigns, as well as in statewide and local political campaigns. She serves on the core team of the San Antonio peaceCENTER. (Organizer)

Stephen A. Calogero, Ph.D., is associate dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and associate professor of philosophy at St. Mary's University. He has worked at St. Mary's since 1990 and has been offering service-learning courses since 1995. Calogero was born in Utica, NY; earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Boston College and his doctorate at Loyola University of Chicago. Calogero was named a Texas Campus Compact Faculty Fellow for 2007 and presently serves as a faculty consultant for TXCC. Calogero has given presentations on service-learning course design, especially in connection with courses on ethics, for a number of years. Teaching primarily undergraduate courses in philosophy, Calogero has a wide range of philosophical interests including the areas of ethics, social justice, existential thought and Ibero-American culture and philosophy. (Philosophy & Walls)

Rosalyn Falcón Collier is co-founder of San Antonio peaceCENTER, a member Archdiocesan Justice and Peace Commission for 10 years, a foreign language educator and a mediator for non-profits and religious/educational organizations. She received the COPRED (now the Peace and Justice Studies Association) Peace Educator award in 2000 and the St. Mary's University Alice Franske Feminist Award in 2006. She is a graduate of St Mary's University (B.A. '70) and Texas Tech University, (M.A. '79) She and her husband, Jim, have two children, 7 grandchildren and 1 great grandson.(Organizer)

Milo Colton received B.A., M.P.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Colorado and a J.D. degree from the University of Iowa. He is a former Sioux City, Iowa School Board member and Iowa State Senator. He also served as the executive director of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. He taught college classes at both the Winnebago and Omaha Indian Reservations. He is currently an attorney and professor teaching in the Criminal Justice Program at St. Mary's University. (Criminal Justice & Walls)

Julia R. DeGrace, MBA, is a research technologist at Southwest Research Institute. Ms. DeGrace teaches transgender awareness to cadets attending the SAPD Police Academy. A Marine Corps Sergeant during the Vietnam Era she was an aircraft flight crewmember, expert rifleman, and mountain warfare winter survival instructor. Ms. DeGrace transitioned while on the job at age 62. Julia lives in San Antonio with her wife married prior to her transition. DeGrace is webmistress for the SA Gender Association. (LGBT & Walls)

John Donahue, Ph.D., is professor of Anthropology at Trinity University. His teaching and research includes applied anthropology, especially in the areas of public health and natural resource management with a focus on water. (Anthropology & Walls)

Christine Drennon, Ph.D, is the Director of the Urban Studies Program at Trinity University. She has been studying the formation of the school districts in central Texas for several years, and served as an expert witness for the poor districts in the most recent school funding litigation. (Urban Studies & Walls)

Gabriel Durand-Hollis. Graduated University of Texas at Austin, Architecture 1981. Principal Architect DHR Architects since 1986. Notable Projects, San Antonio International Airport Improvements 2000-2004, Texas Medclinics, Aveda Institute at Pearl. Projects at SW Research Institute, Air Force Bases, San Antonio College, area parks, and Count projects. American Institute of Architects College of Fellows 2003. Past President, Texas Society of Architects and Pan American Federation of Architects. (Architecture & Walls)

Roberto Julian Flores, MA is a retired psychotherapist. Created his own business, worked for several agencies throughout Texas, California & Illinois. He lives with Dan Graney, his partner of 35 years. Presently he serves Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio as Co-Chair; a member of Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus Board, County Executive Committee as Precinct Chair, member of the Alamo Business Council, and other organizations. (LGBT & Walls)

Michael J. Gilbert, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of criminal justice at UTSA. His research interests focus on violence, white-collar and corporate crime, prison privatization, restorative justice and drug control policy. At present he serves as the Lead Organizer for the 2nd National Conference on Restorative Justice (May 13-15, 2009). It will be held at the University of Texas at San Antonio - Downtown Campus. He has over 38 years of experience in corrections and criminal justice as a corrections professional, trainer, consultant and researcher. Dr. Gilbert also served as an adjunct instructor and curriculum design consultant to the National Academy of Corrections and as a jail/prison consultant to the National Institute of Corrections on numerous occasions. Dr. Gilbert holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration degree with an emphasis in criminal justice from Arizona State University (1990). (Criminal Justice & Walls)

William F. Goodman is an attorney in private practice, concentrating in estate planning, probate and trust law for LGBT individuals, couples and the wider community. Bill is on the Board of the San Antonio Aids Foundation and is an active member of Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio and Temple Beth El. (LGBT & Walls)

Letitia Harding MA, MEd teaches English at the University of the Incarnate Word where her main areas of interest are rhetoric and composition. She is currently working on a PhD in Technical Communication and Rhetoric with Texas Tech University. Before moving into the academic world, Tisha served as an Air Traffic Control Officer in the Royal Air Force. (Literature & Walls)

The Rev. Ann Helmke is a Lutheran (ELCA) minister, co-founder and Animating Director of the peaceCENTER in San Antonio, TX. www.salsa.net/peace Over the years the peaceCENTER and its Core Team have received awards for their peacemaking and excellence from the San Antonio Bar Foundation, the Mind Science Foundation of San Antonio, Amnesty International, the National Conference of Churches, and the National Association of Ecumenical & Interreligious Staff. The WALLS Symposium in San Antonio grew out of Ann's participation in an international conference about walls held in Germany, November 2006. (Organizer)

The Rev. Mick Hinson moved to San Antonio two years ago with his partner of 16 years and their two children; Dexter 11 and Kheeda 6. Mick is the Pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church of San Antonio, a predominately LGBT congregation, and celebrates 175 members with an average Sunday attendance of 185. He received his Masters of Divinity from Duke Divinity School, Duke University and has completed two clinical years in Chaplaincy at Duke University Medical Center. He has served in ministry over 25 years in Georgia, South and North Carolina, and now in Texas. (LGBT & Walls)

Larry Hufford, Ph.D., is a professor of International Relations at St. Mary's University. He received his doctorate at the London School of Economics. He has been involved in peace education since 1968. (International Relations & Walls)

Nazneen Husain is an Indian-born Muslim American raised in South Carolina since the age of eight. She is married to an Indian-born, raised and educated active duty U.S. service member currently stationed as a dentist at Fort Sam Houston. She has three children: a son at Texas A&M; a daughter, Sana, graduating this year from ISA/NESA and a son at the Design and Technology Academy at Roosevelt High School. She has a business designing and selling purses, which employs four people. (Hijaab & Walls)

Sana Husain is a senior at the International School of the Americas & the North East School of the Arts. American born and raised, she is a second generation Indian-American who has been wearing hijab since she was 10-years-old. Her interests are international studies, language (Arabic & Urdu), teaching and religion. (Hijaab & Walls)

Sarwat Hussein was born in Pakistan and educated in the United States. She is the chairperson of the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) San Antonio and on the national board of the national CAIR board of directors. She is founder and editor of al-Ittihad, the largest English-language Muslim publication in Texas. (Hijabb & Walls)

Susan Ives is a former army officer and Iraq War veteran who now serves on the core team of the peaceCENTER. She is the recipient of the San Antonio Bar Foundation Peacemaker of the Year Award. For this symposium she is responsible for the Web site, collateral materials and publicity. (Organizer)

John M. Kelley is the Managing Editor and Publisher of We the People News a monthly print magazine dedicated to muckraking journalism in Corpus Christi. His previous media experience includes a drive time host for the local Air America outlet. He has worked as a teacher, social worker, and a therapist. For much of his career he focused on mental health and substance abuse treatment issues, authoring four books, becoming the CEO of a successful mental health management company, and a sought after national speaker and consultant. He decided to focus on media when he came to believe that much of his life's work was spent bandaging up the wounded after the battle. (Media & Walls)

Jessica Carter Kimmel is a Professor of Education at the University of the Incarnate Word where she has been teaching for 19 years. Her areas of academic interest are adult education, theories of learning across cultures, and women’s issues. She has made eight trips to Palestine and Israel over the past 9 years, spending at least 6 weeks every trip. She has worked with the Women in Black, Machsom Watch, and the Palestinian Women's Development Association in to understand and write about the efforts of women on both sides of the Wall to bring about peace and understanding between the two cultures. When she was selected as the Moody Professor for 2004, she delivered a public address focused on this research. She has interviewed over 40 women from both cultures and is currently writing a book about these women. She will travel to the Middle East in May of 2009 to continue her work on removing walls between cultures. (Women & Walls)

Sister Martha Ann Kirk, Th.D., is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of the Incarnate Word. She also directs an outreach program with story, drama, and dance focusing on issues of justice and peace. WOMEN OF BIBLE LANDS, her most recent book and CD-Rom come from research, travel, and friendships with Jewish, Christian, and Muslim women in the Holy Land. She was a scholar in-residence at Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. She is a member of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, a Roman Catholic congregation. (Religion & Walls; Women & Walls)

Patricia Lonchar, Ph.D. English Literature, has been with The University of the Incarnate Word since 1983. Before coming to UIW, she taught English in high school and served as a High School Counselor and Assistant Principal. Still teaching, Pat has served as Chair of the English department at UIW and currently serves as Assistant Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Her course in Literature for Children and Young Adults is offered every spring semester and emphasizes the role "story" plays in the intellectual, social, psychological, and moral development of children. (Literature & Walls)

Sylvia Maddox leads retreats and workshops on prayer and the spiritual life in a variety of ecumenical settings. Some of these settings include the Visitation House Ministries for Women in Transition, Spiritual Directors International, the Lay Ministry Institute for Oblate School of Theology, United Communities of San Antonio, Logsdon School of Theology, Christus Health, and Laity Lodge. A graduate of Baylor University, she was a Journeyman to Indonesia and has worked with Southeast Asian refugees and students from the Middle East. Her other studies include a masters degrees from The University of Texas and Oblate School of Theology. She is currently teaching in the religious studies department of the University of the Incarnate Word, and is the co-author of "Praying with the Celtic Saints" and "Companions on the Journey." (Film & Walls)

Jennifer Mathews, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She is a specialist in Maya archaeology and has worked in the Yucatan Peninsula of southern Mexico since 1993, where she is the co-director of the Yalahau Regional Human Ecology Project. She teaches courses in archaeology, physical anthropology, sustainability, and ethics and takes students to Mexico during the summer to conduct archaeological research. (Anthropology & Walls)

Susanna Morrow is a teacher, scholar, actor, dancer and performance artist. She specializes in acting, movement, voice, and original performance composition. Her teaching interests include contemporary and classical acting, theater literature, performance art, women's studies, non-western theater, and transformational theater. Her scholarship focuses on acting theory and pedagogy, specifically contemporary performer training in physical theater and improvisation. She has worked professionally as an actor and a dancer in the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and Women in Tap. (Performance & Walls)

Stephen Nickle is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He came to Trinity as the University Chaplain in 2000 with over a decade of service in ministry in higher education. His interests include vocational discernment and stewardship, the study of spirituality and prayer, ministries of social justice and service, and spiritual direction and development. Catherine and he are parents of four children. (Organizer)

Zanto Peabody. While spending much of his career establishing himself as a solid print journalist, We the People's Zanto Peabody has stepped outside the mainstream to launch several alternative media initiatives. He wrote, edited or founded Prediction, a print monthly-turned-weekly targeting African-Americans in East Texas; Houston News Today, an online newsportal launched early in the digital revolution to rival the city's daily; Peabody Press a preblog-era blog in which he digested news for young urban professionals who don't read dailies; Beats and Beefs, an afterschool program that taught high school songwriters to translate their rap lyrics into prosaic social commentary; and the reincarnation of the Public News, a feisty Houston political weekly. He has also written for the Houston Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe. (Media & Walls)

Narjis Pierre was born in Australia, grew up in Switzerland, traveled in South America and became Muslim at age 29 in Texas. She is married with three children, whom she homeschooled. In 1997 she co-founded the San Antonio Muslim Women's Association and is now acting president. She is a member of Tri-Faith Dialogue of San Antonio; on the board of spiritual directors for the peaceCENTER of San Antonio; and the author of "Hajj Journal." She works as caregiver to private families, mostly at the Incarnate Word Retirement Center. (Hijabb & Walls; Film & Walls)

Kamala Platt, Ph.D., is an independent scholar, writer/artist and professor who has worked in South Texas, New York, New Mexico, Oregon, Kansas, and Chicago. Her scholarly work including the manuscript, "Environmental Justice Poetics: Cultural Representations of Environmental Racism from Chicanas and South Asian Women" investigate practice, theory, and aesthetics of women's cultural poetics promoting environmental justice. Prior to receiving her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from U T, Austin, Kamala received an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts Education (Columbia College, Chicago), and an MFA (Creative Writing, Bowling Green State University (Ohio). She teaches courses in Literature, Writing, Latina Studies, Cultural Studies, and Women's Studies. (Poetics & Walls)

Roberto Prestigiacomo is a theater-maker whose creative work includes the development of community-based theatre through improvisation and storytelling techniques, the creation of original physical theater pieces (TransPerformance), and the directions of plays from Shakespeare to contemporary playwrights. Roberto, a produced playwright, is the Producing Artistic Director of AtticRep. He teaches at Trinity University and is a member of Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC), American Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), and is a native of Rome, Italy. (Performance & Walls)

Mark Rathbun worked for twenty-five years as an executive, counselor and trainer at Religious Technology Center (holder of the trademarks of Dianetics and Scientology) in Los Angeles. He obtained expertise in the legal, legislative and public relations arenas, working with top professionals in those fields in major cities across the globe. Mark moved to South Texas in 2005 to embark on a writing career. He has done investigative reporting for the Coastal Bend Herald since early 2007, written historical tracts for Allies for Freedom in Berkeley, California, and also writes books and screenplays. He is the lead investigative writer for We the People News. (Media & Walls)

Richard Reed, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Trinity University. Over the last fifteen years, he has been working with Guarani villages on the frontier of expanding colonization and agriculture in Paraguay. In two books, "Prophets of Agroforestry" (1995) and "Forest Residents and Forest Managers", (1997) he proposes indigenous models of land use as alternative strategies for sustainable development in forested regions. (Anthropology & Walls)

Mark Rockeymoore teaches geography at Northwest Vista College. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Texas State University, San Marcos. (Geography & Walls)

Luz Maria Sánchez is a Mexican-born sound and visual artist. She has a degree in music and literature from the Universidad de Guadalajara. Ph.D. in Art, by the Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona (2007), she focused on the role of sound in art since its inception in the 19th century through its evolution as an independent art practice by the second half of the 20th century. Within these studies, Sánchez places emphasis on sound art and examines in her thesis the radio plays of Samuel Beckett linking them to the radiophonic art that emerged in the mid-20th century. Currently she is full time professor at Universidad de Guadalajara, and she is director of Mexico 22, the international branch of Canal 22, a cultural TV station operated by the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. Sánchez has been invited to participate in diverse art residencies, including the Cîrculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (2001) and the International Artist-in-Residence at Artpace (2006). Her work has been exhibited at The Illinois State Museum (Springfield and Chicago), The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art (Dallas), Gran Teatro de La Habana, (Havana), Centro de Cultura Contemporànea (Barcelona), X-Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City), and MUCA/Museo de Ciencias y Artes (Mexico City). Her sound work has been included in major sound art festivals such as Zèppellin Sound Art Festival (Spain), Bourges International Festival of Electronic Music and Sonic Art (France) and Festival Internacional de Arte Sonoro (Mexico). Additionally, Sánchez has produced commissions for Arteleku/Audiolab in San Sebastián and the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. (Art & Walls I)

Chris Sauter exhibits nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions at John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, Cueto Project, NY,NY, Finesilver, Houston, TX, Elizabeth Dee, NY,NY, Galerie Valerie Cueto, Paris, France and Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Group exhibitions include EVA in Limerick, Ireland, Domicile: Public.Prive at the Musee d'Art Moderne Saint-Etienne, France, Wall to Wall Drawing at The Drawing Center, NY, Drawing Outside the Lines at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ, Out of the Ordinary at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston and Come Forward: Emerging Art in Texas at the Dallas Museum of Art. In 1999, he was chosen by Okwui Enwezor to participate in the Artpace international artist residency. He has a BA from the University of the Incarnate Word and a Master of Fine Arts degree from The University of Texas at San Antonio. (www.chrissauter.com) (Art & Walls III)

The Rev. Phil Schulman, Minister of Community Unitarian Universalist Church 4818 E. Beverly Mae Dr., teaches classes and leads workshops in Compassionate Communication. For more info visit www.cuucsa.org/minister.html or call 210-614-2014. (Communication & Walls)

David Spener's areas of expertise include comparative international development, economic sociology, social inequality, U.S.-Mexico border and migration studies. His book (co-edited with Kathleen Staudt) The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcending Divisions, Contesting Identities was published in 1998 by Lynne Rienner. (Civil Rights & Walls)

Juanita Sundberg, Ph.D., is a profesor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Her current research examines the environmental dimensions of United States' border security policies in the US-Mexico borderlands, with a specific focus on protected areas like national wildlife refuges. (Environment & Walls)

Kristen Alejandra Supik is a senior at the University of the Incarnate Word graduating in May with a Philosophy major and Art History and Psychology minors. She intends to continue on to graduate school and get her Ph.D.. (Art & Walls II)

Matt (DC) Tedrow is a journalism graduate student at UT-Austin and editor of The New Texas Radical. His activism deals with mainly with death penalty abolition, alternative media, anti-war efforts, and workers' self-management. (Media & Walls)

Brenya Twumasi MA., JD., Is in her fifth year of teaching Law and Psychology classes at Northwest Vista College. Her teaching career began in Maryland where she graduated from The Johns Hopkins University and The University of Maryland. She is the President of a lobbying and advocacy Agency called C4C; kaleidoscope. C4C is an international agency that has it's focus on women and mothers of war ravaged regions of Africa. She is the Vice President of The Songai Institute an African developmental agency. Brenya finds the combination of Law and Psychology to be an exciting field. Within these two professions Brenya has worked in a vast array of fields. These fields include, Research, Litigation, Politics, Leadership Training, Juvenile Delinquency, Administration, Mediation, International, the Correctional System, Gangs, Clinical Psychotherapy, Crisis Intervention and Mass Disaster Relief. She is a member of the Texas Gang investigation Association and the International Latino Gang Investigation Association. Brenya will be flying in from Ghana, West Africa to participate in the Symposium. (Psychology & Walls)

Dee Villarrubia, MSW, is a retired Social worker. She received her Masters of Social Work at Our Lady of the Lake University. As Air Force Officer she became a San Antonio LGBT Activist in 1974. Coordinator and member of the Gay Switchboard, Co-founder of American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER) SA and of Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio, elected to the Texas and National Stonewall Democrats Board, elected to the ACLU SA Board, and elected Precinct Chair since 1992. (LGBT & Walls)

Anne Wallace's audiovisual projects and public commissions incorporate multiple perspectives on culture and history through the use of personal narrative. Many of her works engage the US/Mexico border and the American West. She is the recipient of several awards and honors including one of the first Artist Foundation of San Antonio grants, the International-Artists-in-Residence Program of Artpace and a residency at the Orchard Gallery in Derry, N. Ireland. (Art & Walls)