Bettina Richter studied art history, German and Romance languages and literature in Heidelberg, Paris and Zurich, graduating with a dissertation on the anti-war graphics of Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen in 1996. From 1997 to 2006, Bettina Richter served as a research associate at the Poster Collection of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich and was appointed its curator in 2006. In this capacity she has realized, among other exhibitions, “The Magic of Things” (2012), “Japanese Poster Artists—Cherry Blossom and Asceticism” (2014), “Protest!” (2018), and “Talking Bodies” (2023). From 2000 to 2005 she taught at the Zurich University of the Arts. She has published and lectured extensively on subjects related to the history of art and literature, as well as on posters. Since 2007 she has served as the editor of the series “Poster Collection”, by the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.

Lisa Bogerts studied political science and communication studies as well as peace and conflict studies in Dresden, Magdeburg and Frankfurt am Main. From 2012 to 2018, she was a research assistant at various universities. In 2013 and 2015, she served as curator of exhibitions on political street art and urban art. In 2017, she was visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research in New York and in 2019 completed her dissertation on the dialectics of aesthetic rule and resistance in Latin America. Since 2018, she has been an independent researcher and worked on educational formats on artistic activism in exile, visual discourse analysis, digital imagery of extreme right-wing movements and protest mobilization and social movements, among others.

Silas Munro is a designer, artist, writer, researcher, curator and surfer. He is a descendant of the Banyole people of Eastern Uganda. He founded the design studio Polymode based in Los Angeles and Raleigh. Munro is the curator and author of Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest at Letterform Archive (2022–23). He was a contributor to W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America (2018) and co-authored the first BIPOC-centered design history course, Black Design in America: African Americans and the African Diaspora in Graphic Design 19th–21st Century (2021). His design and visual art has been exhibited widely and is represented in the collections of various institutions. Munro is Founding Faculty and chair Emeritus for the MFA Program in Graphic Design at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

The Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca (ASARO) is a contemporary Mexican artists’ collective, founded by young art students and street artists in the wake of the 2006 uprisings in Oaxaca, Mexico.