Lilian Griselda Pagoada Antunez received her B.S. in International Business from Nacional Autonoma University – Honduras, and her Master's in Business with – a concentration in Marketing from UNITEC – Honduras.

Luke Urbain (they/them, él/ellx) received their Ph.D. from UW-Madison, where they focused on art, literature, and visual culture of Cuba and the Cuban diaspora and were an affiliated graduate student in the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program.