2025-26 Team

Lit & Luz is produced by MAKE Literary Productions, NFP

MAKE Literary Productions Executive Director: Laurie Sartain

Operations Director Chicago: Frances Lee

Experience Director: Mario Gastelum

Co-Artistic Director: Zespo

Co-Artistic Director: Esteban King

Founding Artistic Director: Daniel Borzutzky 

Live Show Director & Collaboration Cohort Coordinator: Kost 

Lit & Luz Book Club Host: Angelica Julia Dávila

Communications Coordinator Chicago: Corrine Zahra

Development: John W. Bateman

Individual Giving Manager: Shelby Marie Edwards

Lit & Luz Founder & Advisor: Sarah Dodson

Creative Director and Website Design: Bowen Welles

Emeritus:

Lit & Luz Book Club Founder and Literary Arts Director: Miguel Jiménez

Managing Director CDMX:  David Ruano 

MAKE Literary Productions Board of Directors:

Libia Bianbi, Deputy Director, Building Equity and Alignment for Environmental Justice

Sarah Dodson, Associate Director of Development, UIC College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts

Kamilah N. Foreman, Director of Publications and Editorial, Dia Art Foundation

Héctor García Chávez, Ph.D., President, MAKE Literary Productions; Director, Women and Gender Studies, Loyola University Chicago

Laurie Sartain, Executive Director, MAKE Literary Productions

Advisory Council

Jessica Anne

Daniel Borzutzky

Joel Craig

Antonio Díaz Oliva

Héctor Garcia Chavez

Rachel Galvin

Amanda Goldblatt

Kathleen Rooney