Catriona Rueda Esquibel was a professor in the Ethnic Studies department at San Francisco State University. She held a BA in English from New Mexico Highlands University(1988), a Master's degree in English literature from the University of Colorado (1991), and a PhD in the History of Consciousness Program at UC Santa Cruz (1999).
Decolonize Your Diet, written with her partner Luv Calvo, was her first book. Catriona Rueda Esquibel passed away in 2024.
Luz Calvo received their PhD in the History of Consciousness at University of California Santa Cruz and also holds an MA in Political Science (UCLA) and AB in Politics (Princeton University). Dr. Calvo teaches courses in Latino/a Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Food Justice, and Ethnic Studies at California State UniversityEast Bay. Decolonize Your Diet, written with their late partner Catriona Rueda Esquibel, is their first book.