2025-26 Team

Lit & Luz is produced by MAKE Literary Productions, NFP

MAKE Literary Productions Interim Executive Director: Laurie Sartain

Operations Director Chicago: Frances Lee

Experience Director: Mario Gastelum

Co-Artistic Director: Zespo

Co-Artistic Director: Esteban King

Managing Director Emeritus Mexico City:  David Ruano 

Lit & Luz Book Club Founder and Director Emeritus: Miguel Jiménez

Founding Artistic Director: Daniel Borzutzky 

Live Show Director & Collaboration Cohort Coordinator: Kost 

Communications Coordinator Chicago: Corrine Zahra

Development: John W. Bateman

Individual Giving Manager: Shelby Edwards

Lit & Luz Founder & Advisor: Sarah Dodson

Creative Director and Website Design: Bowen Welles

MAKE Literary Productions Board of Directors:

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

Sarah Dodson, Associate Director of Development, UIC’s 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, Interim Executive Director, MAKE Literary Productions

Advisory Council

Jessica Anne

Daniel Borzutsky

Joel Craig

Antonio Díaz Oliva

Héctor Garcia Chavez

Rachel Galvain

Amanda Goldblatt