 | Sonia Baez Hernandez
Artist
As a Puerto-Dominican, Baez Hernandez’s artwork, drawings, paintings and installations have been featured in such places as the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, Dominican Republic; and Juchitan Casa de Arte y Cultura, Mexico. She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is ABD from the European Graduate School. |
 | Charles Nelson
South Side Chicago Help Center
A native of Chicago, Nelson has over 20 years of experience advocating for HIV prevention. Currently the director of Men who have Sex with Men Projects at the South Side Help Center, Nelson has created countless workshops and seminars focusing on the issues of African American men who have sex with men.
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 | Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez
Sociology, University of Texas, Austin
Author of Erotic Journeys: Mexican Immigrants and Their Sex Lives (University of California Press, 2005), Gonzalez-Lopez is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin. Her research interests include sociology of gender, sexuality and diversity, migration studies, sexual violence, religion, and qualitative methodologies. Gonzalez-Lopez is currently conducting research on the sexual, romantic, and life experiences of adult women and men with histories of incest in the largest urbanized areas in Mexico.
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 | Coya Paz
Teatro Luna
Co-founder of Teatro Luna, Chicago’s first and only all-Latina theater company, Paz is a writer-director who has appeared in numerous independent film and performance projects. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, American Theater Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune. Paz is a doctoral candidate in the department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and is one half of the positive sexuality project I Heart My Clit.
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