Angus Wright is the author of The Death of Ramón Gonzáles, The Modern Agricultural Dilemma (2015), a benchmark book in the areas of public health, environmental studies, and cross-border history often described as a parallel to Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” in alerting the public to the death and destruction caused by using toxic pesticides.  Dr. Wright founded the Environmental Studies program at California State University Sacramento where he has taught with distinction for many years. He holds a Ph.D in both Latin American studies and Latin American History and serves as an international consultant for the World Bank. Dr. Wright is a former director of The Land Institute,  a non-profit policy, research, and education organization dedicated to sustainable agriculture.

Read the interview with Angus Wright under "Recommended reading."

Carolyn Forché is an internationally recognized poet, essayist and author of five books including Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, a collection of poems from throughout the world that anthologize war, torture, exile and repression. Her award-winning book, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (2019), has been described as "extraordinary. . [it] challenges us as Americans to see the people arriving at our border not only with empathy but also with the knowledge that their arrival is a manifestation of a shared history--of our shared fate."  "Reading it," writes the San Francisco Chronicle, "will change you, perhaps forever."   Dr. Forché received the 2020 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.  Read the interview with Carolyn  Forché under "Recommended reading."