2024- 25 Team

Lit & Luz is produced by MAKE Literary Productions, NFP

For all inquiries, please direct your message to operations@makemag.org.

MAKE Literary Productions Interim Co-Executive Directors: Dr. Héctor García Chávez and Laurie Sartain

Operations Director Chicago: Frances Lee

Operations Director CDMX: Laura Martínez Terrazas

Experience Director: Mario Gastelum

Collaboration Cohort Coordinator: Libia Bianibi

Partnerships & Sponsorships Director Chicago: Angelica Davila

Visual Arts Director, Chicago: Zespo

Visual Arts and Programming Director CDMX: Esteban King

Lit & Luz Book Club Founder and Director: Miguel Jiménez

Managing Director CDMX, Emeritus:  David Ruano 

Founding Artistic Director: Daniel Borzutzky 

Artistic Associates, Collaboration Cohort: Joel Craig, Kamilah Foreman, Kathleen Rooney

Live Show Director: Kost

Writing Workshops Coordinator: Antonio Díaz Oliva 

Media Relations Coordinator Chicago: Alisha Gorder 

Communications Coordinator Chicago: Mariana Mejía

Communications Coordinator CDMX: Corrine Zahra

Development: John W. Bateman

Translation and Editorial: Ryan Greene and Claudia di Ibieta 

Creative Director and Website Design: Bowen Welles 

Lit & Luz Founder & Advisor: Sarah Dodson

MAKE Literary Productions Board of Directors:

Sarah Dodson, Associate Director of Development, UIC’s College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts

Natalie Edwards, Director of Major Gifts, The Chicago History Museum

Kamilah Foreman, Publications Director, Dia Art Foundation

Héctor García Chávez, Ph.D., President, MAKE Literary Productions; Director, Women and Gender Studies, Loyola University Chicago

Laurie Sartain, Interim Director, MAKE Literary Productions

Mike Zapata, Author