Rodrigo Hurtado is the Executive Director of the Universidad Abierto de Recoleta (People’s University of Recoleta), established by Daniel Jadue in 2018. Hurtado has over 20 years of experience in education. He started in the Technological Innovation Program of the Ministry of Economy, then continued in the Continuing Education Program at the University of Chile’s philosophy department, where he worked for 10 years in distance learning programs. Before arriving at UAR, he was part of the Bicentennial Project at the Juan Gomez Millas Campus.

Fares Jadue is a Chilean-Palestinian politician who was elected council person for the Recoleta commune in 2021 and assumed the position of the mayor when Daniel Jadue was incarcerated. He worked for eight years as the Director of Community Development (DIDECO) in Recoleta, where he developed the People’s Pharmacy as well as other projects including the People’s Bookstores. (Fares and Daniel share a surname but are not related.)

David originally trained as a physician but has worked mainly in health services and public health since the early 1980s, including program management, research and teaching. From the mid 1990s to the 2010s he taught health policy, health systems and public health at La Trobe University in Australia. He has a strong interest in the political economy of health and the comparative study of health systems, including an extended program of teaching and research in health policy and management in China. Since 1994 David has been active in the International People’s Health Council, which was one of the eight founding organisations of the People’s Health Movement in December 2000. He has been active in PHM since the first People’s Health Assembly in Savar in 2000, including participating in IPHU courses, WHO Watch (and the Tracker), Global Health Watch, the Trade and Health Circle and the Advisory Council.

Lucia Morale is advisor to the Spanish Minister of Culture on gender equality and democratic memory.
She is a lawyer and holds a Master’s degree in Gender Studies and Equality Policies and a Master’s degree in Criminalistics.
She has worked in the Barcelona City Council in the areas of public security and feminism when Barcelona en comú won the mayoralty with Ada Colau. She has also worked in human rights organisations both in Spain and Argentina.
She has been a member of the coordinator of Barcelona en comú and is currently a member of the board of trustees of the Sentit Comu Foundation.

Carmen Lienqueo is an Andean singer with a magnetic voice, a simple and profound lyrical work, capable of transporting listeners to the diverse landscapes of Latin America. She has worked for over 20 years in groups with folkloric roots and says her music is a natural response to the rhythmic patterns of the traditions of her territory, as well as the poetry and language of South America. In this same way, she traveled sharing her music throughout the continent. Carmen creates a new repertoire with lyrics impregnated with intimacy, reflecting a very personal perspective, they are an echo and reflection of the daily reality where it lives.

Her first album “Canto Para Siempre” is a manifesto inspired by a mixture of mestizo, Mapuche, North Andean, and South American cultures from the present and to the future. “Canto Para Siempre” won the Pulsar Award for the Best Album in Música Raiz in 2021. In 2022, she participated in the International Festival of World Music (WOMAD) and in Lollapalooza with Totó la Momposina. She released her second production “Los Poderes” in 2023 in collaboration with the Argentine producer and musician Guido Nisenson.

Romina A. Green Rioja is Assistant Professor in Latin American history at Washington and Lee University. She is a scholar of gender and race of modern Chile and Argentina. Her book manuscript To Govern is to Educate: Modeling Racial Education in Modern Chile (1879-1920) explores the relationship between state education, immigration policies, and settler-colonialism, demonstrating how those institutions and policies contributed to structural racism and the social marginalization of the Indigenous Mapuche. She also researches and writes about the feminist movement in Chile and Argentina.

Erin took a class in basic ASL in high school as an elective and fell in love with the language. She got a Bachelor’s degree in Athletic Training, but it just wasn’t the career for her. She graduated from the SWIC interpreter training program in 2004. She worked with DeafWay interpreting services from 2005 until it’s closing in 2022.