Dr. Alicia Gaspar de Alba, conference organizer, is a professor at the César Chávez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicana & Chicano Studies and the Associate Director at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

Her areas of expertise are: Border Studies, Gender & Sexuality,and Creative Writing.

Professor Gaspar de Alba has published the following books:

• Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities (Palgrave, 2003)
• Sor Juana's Second Dream (University of New Mexico Press, 1999)
• Chicano Art Inside/Outside The Master's House (University of Texas Press, 1998)
• The Mystery of Survival and Other Stories (Bilingual Press, 1993)
• Beggar on the Cordoba Bridge, collection of poems in Three Times A Woman: Chicana Poetry (Bilingual Press, 1989)

Her novel on the maquiladora murders, The Factory, or Desert Blood, is looking for a publisher.

Alma Lopez is the Artist that created the image for this conference. The image is titled "Coyolxauhqui's Tree of Life" by Alma Lopez (c) 2003. Coyolxauhqui is the Aztec Warrior Moon Goddess, who was brutally dismembered by her brother Huitzilopochtli (the Sun God) for uprising
against patriarchy. For more information visit her site at http://home.earthlink.net/~almalopez/

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