Katya Crawford is a professor in the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of New Mexico's School of Architecture and Planning and is the past president and fellow of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. Her research interests focus on design pedagogy, ephemeral landscape installations, landscape literacy, and social and environmental justice. Crawford's work has placed in over twenty local, national, and international juried exhibitions and competitions.

Kathleen Kambic is an associate professor in the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of New Mexico and is an affiliate with the Water Resources Program, the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, and the Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program. Her research and teaching interests include water, infrastructure, the American West, feminist political ecology, landscape theory, and the role of design competitions in a landscape architecture curriculum. Kambic has won multiple international design competitions on interdisciplinary faculty teams.