David Garcia is Professor in the Department of Music UNC Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the music of the Américas with an emphasis on African diasporic and Latinx music and history. His publications include Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music published in 2006 and Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins published by Duke University Press, 2017. He is currently editing a critical reader on the history of Latin music, dance, and theater in the United States, 1783-1900 (19th hundred). He is also editor of the Journal of the Society for American Music. Garcia teaches courses in ethnomusicology and is the musical director of UNC’s Charanga Carolina.

Anna Tybinko is a Ph.D. Candidate here at Duke in the Romance Studies Department, Spanish track. Anna works on African migration to Spain and questions of precarity through contemporary Peninsular literature. She is currently teaching a bass-endowed seminar course entitled, "Spanish Narratives of Migration: Africa, Europe, and Global Borderlands," and is thrilled to have her class in attendance.

Guillermo Luppi is a second-year PhD student in Musicology at Duke University. He earned a master’s degree in Musicology from Utrecht University and a Bachelor (Licenciatura) in Music Composition from the Catholic University of Argentina. His current research focuses on musical ekphrasis in late medieval and renaissance music, music theory, and contemporary tango.

Laura Wagner holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from UNC Chapel Hill, where her research focused on displacement, humanitarian aid, and everyday life in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. From 2015 to 2019, she was the project archivist for the Radio Haiti Archive at the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University. She is currently working on a book manuscript that weaves together her ethnographic research on the earthquake and the materials in the Radio Haiti Archive. This Thursday, February 27, Laura is opening the ‘RADIO HAÏTI-INTER: THREE DECADES OF RESISTANCE’ at the Rubenstein Arts Center, both an exhibit and immersive audio experience.

Ayanna Legros is a PhD student in the Department of History at Duke University. Her work focuses on the migration of Haitians to New York City during the Duvalier Regime. She is a recent recipient of an NSF grant from the Society for the History of Technology and the Emerging Scholars Award from the Haitian Studies Association.