Fernando David Márquez Duarte is a Mexican decolonial activist and thinker from the Abya Yala. He has a BA in International Relations with Honorific Mention from UABC, as well as a MSc in Regional Development from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) with a CONACYT scholarship. He is currently enrolled in the PhD Political Science program at the University of California Riverside (UCR) with a Fulbright García Robles scholarship and the Dean’s Fellowship. He has more than 5 years of teaching experience in different universities in México and the USA, and is currently teaching at UCR. He has academic articles published in indexed journals of México, Brazil, Ecuador, Russia, Germany and the UK, as well as book chapters in México and Spain. He has worked advising and supporting Indigenous groups such as the Triquis and Cucapáh Indigenous communities in Baja California, México, regarding Indigenous rights and political participation. He has also worked with the Resistance in defense of water in Baja California with a participatory action-research project. He is proficient in Spanish, English, Portuguese and Náhuatl languages.

Victor Alejandro Espinoza is a tenured professor at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. He has also taught at UABC and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM). He is a member of the SNI (National Researchers System). He holds a Master’s and PhD in Political Science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and in Political Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2019–2020 he was a visiting professor at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California at San Diego, and in 2008 he was visiting fellow at the Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has served as the director of journals Frontera Norte and the Revista Mexicana de Estudios Electorales and is the author of ten books and the editor of ten books. He has published 5 working papers, 65 book chapters and 40 articles in academic journals. He has made TV appearances on Novedades, Diario 29, La Crónica, El Mexicano & Zeta. He is a contributor for El Nacional, El Financiero and Excélsior – and since its founding in July 1999, a weekly contributor to Frontera & La Crónica.