Luis Luna is the Senior Organizer at the Connecticut Working Families Party, a photographer, artist, interpreter and longtime immigrant rights activist. For over eight years Luis has hosted his own monthly program Módulo Lunar on WPKN-FM Community Radio in Bridgeport, CT, where he mixes alternative and politically charged Latinx music with discussions of social justice issues, to amplify collective voices in his community.
Sylvia Ryerson is a radio producer and PhD student in American Studies at Yale University. Prior to graduate school, Sylvia co-hosted Appalshop’s Calls from Home radio show, a nationally recognized program sending toll-free phone messages from family members to their loved ones incarcerated in the U.S. prison system, and she co-founded Restorative Radio, a participatory documentary project working with families to create “audio postcards” for their loved ones incarcerated or detained. Her work has been featured on NPR, the BBC, The Marshall Project, the Boston Review, the Third Coast International Audio Festival and Transom.org