Dr. Elena Gonzales is Curator of Civic Engagement & Social Justice at the Chicago History Museum. Her book Exhibitions for Social Justice (2019) was published in Routledge’s Museum Meanings Series. She is a contributing author of Seize the Moment: How Museums Can Prepare for the Post-Pandemic Age (Rowman & Littlefield and the American Association for State and Local History, 2022). Gonzales has curated exhibitions since 2006 and taught curatorial studies since 2010.

Jojo Galvan Mora is CHM’s Digital Humanities Fellow. He holds an MA in Museum and Exhibition Studies from the University of Illinois Chicago. He’s also a PhD Candidate in history at Northwestern University, where he writes about Latino Urban and Suburban History in the US. Apart from his work as a historian for the Museum, Jojo is also CHM’s dedicated Spanish-language translator, having translated exhibitions like City on Fire, Designing for Change, and Dressed in History.