Thomas E. Sheridan is a Distinguished Outreach Professor at the University of Arizona. He has written or co-edited fifteen books, including Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacácori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O'odham, which won the Past Presidents' Gold Award from the Association of Borderlands Studies.

Randall H. McGuire is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York. He has authored or co-authored twenty-­one books and conducted an archaeology of the contemporary study of the border wall separating Ambos Nogales (Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora). Since 2010 he has been involved with the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths.