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Lesly Deschler Canossi (she/her) is a photography educator and co-founder of Women Picturing Revolution. She holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she focused on the museological object’s role in constructing culture. She is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography (ICP) and has lectured at Columbia University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Lamar Dodd School of Art in Cortona, Italy, and the Tate Modern, among others. Along with Zoraida Lopez-Diago, she edited Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing, Leuven University Press. Her ongoing personal photographic practice, Domestic Negotiations (2012-present), and teaching project, Into the Fold: Artist / Mother Identity (2019-present) explore autonomy, loss, and feminist mothering.

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Zoraida Lopez-Diago stands at the intersection of visual, social, and environmental justice; she is a photographer, curator, activist, and co-founder of Women Picturing Revolution (WPR). Her photographs focuses on themes of gender, race, incarceration, and migration and have been exhibited at institutions throughout the US and Latin America. She has lectured at Harvard University, the Tate Modern, and La Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia), among others. Zoraida is currently writing an essay, paired with images, on the intersection of photography, the Black body, and nature. She co-curated “Picturing Black Girlhood,” an exhibition from February to August 2022, as part of the conference “Black Portraiture[s] VII: Play and Performance” at Rutgers University-Newark and with Deschler Canossi, co-edited Black Matrilineage, Photography and Representation: Another Way of Knowing, published by Leuven University Press, distributed by Cornell University Press in North America.