Emmett Harden is a docent at Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park, and he married to an Allensworth descendant.

Sherry Hunter is the president of the Allensworth Community Services District in Tulare County. Among other projects, she is spearheading the efforts to conserve the historic Allensworth cemetery.

Denise Kadara is the president of the Allensworth Progressive Association, a non-profit organization serving community needs. She is retired and moved to Allensworth in May 2010 with her husband where they now devote their time toward improving the quality of life of residents in the community and other disadvantaged communities focused on community issues pertaining to water quality, distressed housing, infrastructure, youth/leadership development, environmental justice, and economic development.

Alison Hirsch PH.D., FAAR is a socially and politically engaged scholar working across landscape architecture, cultural landscape studies and landscape history. Her writing and design-research is most focused on landscape and cultural meaning with particular emphasis on communities historically marginalized, as well as environmental and spatial justice. As an educator and academic, she strives to maximize opportunities for applied research, service-learning and forms of community-student co-creation. Alison is currently deeply immersed in research on the working landscapes of the San Joaquin Valley as a landscape of extreme inequality and risk. She is currently the Director of the USC Landscape Justice Initiative.

Nina Weithorn is a Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism student at USC. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies with a minor in Social Work from New York University. After graduating she moved back to her home city of Los Angeles where she worked on a variety of urban farming projects. Nina is passionate about working at the intersection of food justice, community engagement, and design.

Luis Mota is a final year Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism candidate and research associate at the University of Southern California’s School of Architecture. With a deep curiosity in the historical, social, and political systems shaping our world, Luis’ research interests focus on contested cultural, ecological, and labored landscapes and his design interventions challenge landscape’s potential to engineer civility into communities, remediate urban ecosystems and amplify otherwise marginalized voices.

Podcast producer Willa Seidenberg teaches audio journalism and podcasting at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, while pursuing a Master of Heritage Conservation degree at the USC School of Architecture.

A 20-year broadcast journalist and an inaugural fellow with USC’s Center for Excellence in Teaching, Willa founded Annenberg Radio News, the university’s radio news operation; and Intersections South LA, a reporting lab and community website for South Los Angeles.

With photographer William Short, Willa created two oral history/photo projects: A Matter of Conscience: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War and Memories of the American War: Stories From Viet Nam.

Trudi Sandmeier is a Professor of Practice in Heritage Conservation, and the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the USC School of Architecture.

Her work centers on the conservation of the recent past and the impact of underrepresented communities on the historic built environment.