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

Her area of research are: Chicano/a Art, Popular Culture, Border Studies, and Gender & Sexuality Writing.

Professor Gaspar de Alba is also a very successul writer and had published four books:

• 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)

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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