Ame's interests include social and environmental justice, sustainable development, socioecological systems, power, values, and trauma and how they relate to collective environmental governance.

Anita Huizar-Hernández is an associate professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures. She studies the ways literature, film, and other texts have consolidated or challenged myths about Arizona, the West, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Ana-Christina is interdisciplinary by trade, with a PhD from FAU in Comparative Studies with a focus in Latinx Literature & Politics.