María Acaso*

Head of the Education Department, Museo Nacional y Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Professor of Art Education, Universidad complutense de Madrid; author of Art Thinking. Cómo transformar la educación a través de las artes (Paidós, 2017). 

Cristina Colmena

holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and a MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish both from NYU. She writes theater, fiction and non fiction and her academic work tackles the relationship between narrative, memory and visual culture. She teaches Writing as Exploration and Writing as Critical Inquiry at NYUM.

Estrella de Diego*

art historian and writer;  Professor of Art History at the Universidad complutense de Madrid; former holder of NYU´s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Chair; author of El Prado inadvertido, (Anagrama, 2022).

Carol Dysinger

Oscar award-winning documentary filmmaker, Professor, Tisch School of the Arts NYUNY; her documentary work offers counter-narratives to the conventional accounts of wars and conflicts served up by governments and mainstream media.

James D. Fernández

Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at NYUNY; Director of NYU Madrid;  author of Brevísima relación de la construcción de España, y otros ensayos transatlánticos (Polifemo, 2013).

Sophie Gonick

Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYUNY;  author of Dispossession and Dissent: Immigrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid.  (Stanford UP, 2021).

Ellen C. Gordon

(PhD, Cambridge) Human Geographer, teaching and research interests include Geographies of postcolonialism and decoloniality; instructor for NYUM (Madrid: Faces of the Changing European City) 

Jill M. Lane

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, NYUNY; author of Blackface Cuba, 1840 - 1895 (UPenn, 2005).

Masha Kirasirova

Professor of History, NYUAD, research and teaching interests include Colonialism/Anti-colonialism, Orientalism, Transnational History, and the Global Cold War; author of The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire (Oxford University Press, 2023). 

Cristina Lucas*

multidisciplinary feminist artist who works with performance, happening, video, photography, installations, drawing and painting. Her work uses many of the same tools of domination –cartography, big data, monumentality– to question and subvert the powers behind or below the status quo.

Ann Morning

James Weldon Johnson Professor of Sociology and Divisional Dean for Social Sciences and Vice Dean for Global and Strategic Initiatives at NYUNY; author of An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States (Russell Sage Foundation, 2022).

Leah Pattem

is a British/Indian investigative journalist and photographer focusing on immigration, politics and underrepresented communities. She's also the founder of Madrid No Frills, a highly visual grassroots platform for the stories that define Madrid today. Leah is a strong advocate of representative discourse in the media, and trains both new and experienced journalists on ethical journalism.

Elia Romera Figueroa

PhD in Romance Studies, Duke University; Madame Curie post-doctoral fellow at the Universidad autónoma de Madrid; teaching and research interests include popular music and social Movements, Sound and Performance Studies, and LatinX in Spain; instructor for NYUM (Core, Cultures in Context: Spain). 

Fernando Sánchez Castillo*

sculptor, painter, conceptual artist, whose work explores questions of history and memory, monuments and power. 

Emilio Silva

 journalist, founder of the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica; author of Las fosas de Franco (Temas de Hoy, 2006), instructor for NYUM (Contemporary Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War and Historical Memory) 

Antumi Toasijé

historian, president of the Spanish government’s Council to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Discrimination; author of Africanidad. Treinta temas de Historia, Política, Filosofía y Cultura de África y sus diásporas (Wanafrica, 2020): instructor for NYUM (Global Works I and II).

Sara Torres Vega

Professor of Fine Arts and Arts Education, Universidad complutense de Madrid; author of Mediar el futuro: Archivo y memoria en arte y educación (Catarata, 2023) instructor for NYUM (Art Before/Beyond/Without Museums) 

Daneil Wuebben

interdisciplinary researcher in the field of Energy Humanities, author of Power-lined: Electricity, Landscape, and the American Mind (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), instructor for NYUM (Writing as Exploration, Writing as Critical Inquiry).

David Lei Chen Ye*

lawyer, advocate for Madrid´s Chinese community, founding partner of the law firm Sino-Legal. Together with Quan Zhou, he participated in the project “Against Racism and Xenophobia” promoted by Madrid´s police department.

Gad Yola*

Peruvian performance artist based in Spain, who uses drag to explore and critique racism and other phobias that target diverse individuals and communities (anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ+, etc).

Quan Zhou

author, illustrator, graphic novelist; her work, often autobiographical in nature, explores, among other things, the experiences of Chinese immigrants and their descendants in Spain. Author of the graphic novels Gazpacho agridulce. Una autobiografía chino-andaluza, Andaluchinas por el mundo, La agridolce vita (Astiberri, 2015, 2017, 2023). Quan Zhou is the current holder of NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Chair, and will be spending the Spring 2024 semester in residence at NYU Washington Square.

Amal Hussein*

Director of Programming, Espacio Afro.  Degrees in Political Science and Public Policy.

Melody Sánchez Camacho

Academic Coordinator, NYU Madrid, coordinator of logistics for GOG workshop

MA in English Studies from the U. de Almería; MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from the U. of Central Oklahoma, MA in Teacher Training for Secondary Education, Vocational Education and Foreign Languages, U.  complutense de Madrid.