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: Frances Lee

Experience Director: Mario Gastelum

Collaboration Cohort Coordinator: Libia Bianibi

Partnerships & Sponsorships Director: Angelica Davila

Visual Arts Director, Chicago: Zespo

Visual Arts Director, Mexico City: Esteban King

Literary Arts Director, Chicago  / Lit & Luz Book Club Founder and Director: Miguel Jiménez

Literary Arts Director, Mexico City:  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: Alisha Gorder 

Communications Coordinator: Mariana Mejía

Development: John W. Bateman

Translation and Editorial: Ryan Greene, MaryHope Lee, and Claudia di Ibieta 

Creative Director and Website Design: Bowen Welles 

Consultant and Lit & Luz Founder: Sarah Dodson

MAKE Literary Productions Board of Directors:

Sarah Dodson, Consultant

Natalie Edwards, Director of Major Giving, Chicago History Museum

Kamilah Foreman, Publications Director, Dia Art Foundation

Héctor García Chávez, Ph.D., President and Interim Co-Executive Director, MAKE Literary Productions Director, Women and Gender Studies, Loyola University Chicago

Laurie Sartain, Interim Co-Executive Director, MAKE Literary Productions

Mike Zapata, Author