Alison Crosby is an associate professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at York University and the former director of the Centre for Feminist Research (2014–2019). Her research uses a transnational feminist lens and participatory methodologies to accompany protagonists’ multifaceted struggles to redress and memorialize colonial racialized gendered violence in Guatemala, where she has worked for almost thirty years. She is the co-editor (with Heather Evans) of Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Reflections (Rutgers University Press, 2025). She is the co-author (with M. Brinton Lykes) of Beyond Repair? Mayan Women’s Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm (Rutgers University Press, 2019), which received the 2021 Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide. The book was published in Guatemala as Más Allá de la Reparación: Protagonismo de Mujeres Mayas en las Secuelas del Daño Genocida (Cholsamaj, 2019).

Malathi de Alwis (1963–2021) was a renowned Sri Lankan cultural anthropologist, feminist, and environmental activist. She published widely on social movements associated with “disappearances” as well as on nationalism, militarism, displacement, suffering, and memorialisation. Her publication, Archive of Memory, curated and edited with Hasini Haputhanthri and simultaneously published in English, Sinhala, and Tamil, offers a people’s object-related history of the past seventy years of independence in Sri Lanka. A section of this work toured the island as part of the It’s About Time traveling history museum. De Alwis led “memory walks” around Colombo and collaborated on a “memory map” to document sites of violence across Sri Lanka; see http://historicaldialogue.lk/map/.

Heather Evans is a doctoral candidate in the gender, feminist, and women’s studies program at York University. They are the co-editor (with Alison Crosby) of Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Reflections (Rutgers University Press, 2025). Their research draws on transnational feminist theory, critical human trafficking studies, and memory studies to examine how militarized sexual harm and racialized, gendered resistance are constructed through the transnational memorialization practices of the “comfort women” movement. Their work is informed by thirteen years of experience as a campaigner, researcher, and educator with the “comfort women” movement in the South Korean and Canadian contexts, as well as nearly a decade of research on memorialization landscapes and critical interrogations of human trafficking and modern slavery discourses.

Honor Ford-Smith is a poet, theater worker, and scholar and an associate professor emerita at York University. Her most recent performance work is the ten-year performance cycle “Letters to the Dead” and “Vigil for Roxie,” coauthored with Carol Lawes, Eugene Williams, and others. Her publications include Lionheart Gal: Life Stories of Jamaican Women (with Sistren), 3 Jamaican Plays: A Postcolonial Anthology 1977–1987, and My Mother’s Last Dance. As the founding artistic director of the Sistren Theatre Collective in Jamaica, an early Black and Caribbean feminist organization, she cowrote and directed Sistren’s Bellywoman Bangarang, Bandoolu Version, Domestics, Sweet Sugar Rage, and more.

Shahrzad Mojab, scholar, teacher, and activist, is internationally known for her work on the impact of war, displacement, and violence on women’s learning and education and Marxist feminism and antiracism pedagogy. She is a professor emerita of adult education and community development and of women and gender studies at the University of Toronto. Her most recent books include Kurdish Women Through History, Culture, and Resistance; Women of Kurdistan: A Historical and Bibliographical Study (coauthored with Amir Hassanpour); Youth as/in Crisis: Young People, Public Policy, and the Politics of Learning (coedited with Sara Carpenter); Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge (coauthored with Sara Carpenter); Marxism and Feminism; Educating from Marx: Race, Gender and Learning (coedited with Sara Carpenter), and Women, War, Violence, and Learning.

Carmela Murdocca is the York Research Chair in Reparative and Racial Justice and a professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. She is appointed to graduate programs in sociology, sociolegal studies, and social and political thought. Her research is concerned with the intersections of racial carceral violence and the social and legal politics of repair, redress, and reparations.