F. Maria Velasco is a professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas where she teaches Installation Art, Social Practice, Theory and Criticism, and Drawing. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her work deals with issues of displacement, migration, gender identity, and the structures of authority around us.

Velasco is project director and lead artist of Reclaiming Home: Remembering the Topeka Bottoms.

Matthew Jacobson is a Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Kansas. He primarily teaches Film and Media Production classes, as well as Experimental Film and Video Production, Music Video Production, and Cinematography. He has been teaching at the University of Kansas since August of 1999.

Jacobson is the filmmaker, producer and co-director of Reclaiming Home: Remembering the Topeka Bottoms.

Valerie M. Mendoza received her Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the history of the Latinx community in Kansas and the Midwest. She is an independent public historian and a Topeka native with community roots in the Bottoms.

Mendoza is the oral histories director of Reclaiming Home: Remembering The Topeka Bottoms.

Dr. Neill Gabrielle Esquibel-Kennedy is a Lecturer in American Studies, in the Latinx/Chicanx program at the University of Kansas. Her research interests include racial capitalism, settler colonialism, immigration, and the intersections of race, space, and place.

Esquibel-Kennedy was research assistant and archivist of Reclaiming Home: Remembering the Topeka Bottoms.

Graphic Design intern, University of Kansas

Emerging Scholar, University of Kansas

Emerging Scholar, University of Kansas

Emerging Scholar, University of Kansas