Cecilia Menjívar is Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair, and Director of the Center for the Study of International Migration at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America and Enduring Violence: Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala.

Pamela Neumann is Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M International University. She has written extensively on gender-based violence, law, and human rights in Central America.