Elspeth Iralu (Angami Naga) is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Planning at the University of New Mexico. Her work in Indigenous geographies examines the relationships between Indigeneity, colonialism, and territory, read through cartographic and visual culture. Her scholarly writing includes articles published in Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography, Political Geography, ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, and American Quarterly.

Phurwa Dondrub Dolpopa is an assistant professor of Indigenous environmental sciences in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. His current research takes caterpillar fungus and snow leopards as lenses to examine the intersections of Indigeneity, state-making, and environmental politics in Dolpo, the Nepal Himalaya.