Edward F. Fischer is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University. He is the author, with Peter Benson, of Broccoli and Desire: Global Connections and Maya Struggles in Postwar Guatemala (Stanford 2006). He is also the founder of Maní+, a social enterprise combating malnutrition.
R. Mckenna Brown, Judith M. Maxwell, and Walter E. Little are experienced Kaqchikel teachers who founded and direct the Oxlajuj Aj Intensive Summer Program in Kaqchikel Language and Culture sponsored by Tulane University and the University of Texas at Austin. Brown is Professor and Director of the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Maxwell is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics, at Tulane University in New Orleans. Little is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Albany, State University of New York.