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Carlos Menchaca is a Chicanx dancer/choreographer who blends traditional, avant-garde, and quotidian modalities to defy gender norms and convention in flamenco. Touring with esteemed flamenco companies, Carlos has performed throughout the U.S. at such venues as The Joyce Theater, Z Space, and The Public Theater (NYC), and internationally in cities such as Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Vancouver (Chan Centre) and Sölden, Austria.

In 2023, Carlos broke barriers performing as a Principal Dancer of Yjastros’ Xicano Power at the Festival de Jerez (Spain)— the first U.S.-based company to be featured at the esteemed festival. Most recently, Carlos was selected by the City of Albuquerque’s Urban Enhancement Trust Fund to choreograph a series focusing on collaboration between local, intergenerational artists.

Sara Moncada (Yaqui/Irish), M.A., is a dancer, educator, filmmaker, author, Native scholar and cultural arts advocate. Her work centers Indigenous knowledge systems, cultural arts, Native religious/spiritual systems, traditional ecological knowledge, and biocultural diversity.
 
Sara began her studies in dance and theatrical performance at the age of five including classical ballet and modern dance. In 2001, she began her study of Flamenco, traveling to Spain to study with such artists as Farruquito, La Farruca, Pastora Galván, Andrés Marín, and Rafaela Carrasco. In 2003, she performed as a company member and soloist with La Monica and Pasion Flamenca and has since had the opportunity to present with San Francisco’s Theater Flamenco and Caminos Flamencos. In 2006, she joined La Tania Baile Flamenco and has worked as a company member and soloist since, including for La Tania’s 2012 Despertar es Un Color which was nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for outstanding achievement in performance as an ensemble. As her dance career evolved, her involvement in her Native American culture and heritage merged with her performance and professional dance training. She began presenting Native American culture, arts, and dance with Eddie Madril in 2008 and formally joined Sewam American Indian Dance as a dancer, educator, and program director in 2012.

Sara presents nationally/internationally on Native/Indigenous traditional arts and culture, Native Foodways, and traditional land practice/ecological systems. She has been honored to serve as a panelist for Dance/Arts for San Francisco Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts. Sara is co-author of The Dance of Caring, a book exploring Native American Hoop Dance as a model for wellness, producer of the internationally successful documentary film NURSES If Florence Could See Us Now, and executive producer of The Cultural Conservancy’s The Native Seed Pod, a new podcast series that explores and celebrates traditional seeds, Native Foodways, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Association of Ramaytush Ohlone, the American Indian Cultural District San Francisco, and the Indigenous Partnership Advisory Council of Dominican University. In 2021, she was honored to serve as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Sara is an adjunct professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University and is CEO of The Cultural Conservancy, a native-led non-profit organization working in Indigenous rights and revitalization across the nation and internationally. Sara received her Master Arts Humanities from Dominican University of California summa cum laude, with an emphasis in religion, ecology, and traditional arts.

Quinn Dombrowski (non-binary, any pronouns are fine) is the Academic Technology Specialist in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and in the Library, at Stanford University. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2018, Quinn’s many Digital Humanity adventures included supporting the high-performance computing cluster at UC Berkeley, running the DiRT tool directory with support from the Mellon Foundation.

Quinn has a BA/MA in Slavic Linguistics from the University of Chicago, and an MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since coming to Stanford, Quinn has supported numerous non-English DH projects, taught courses on non-English DH, started a Textile Makerspace, developed a tabletop roleplaying game to teach DH project management, explored trends in multilingual Harry Potter fanfic, and started the Data-Sitters Club, a feminist DH pedagogy and research group focused on Ann M. Martin’s 90’s girls series “The Baby-Sitters Club”. Quinn is currently co-VP of the Association for Computers and the Humanities along with Roopika Risam, and advocates for better support for DH in languages other than English.

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