Suzanne L'Heureux is an instructor of Art History at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. She has a BA in Fine Arts (University of Dayton, Ohio) and an MA in Art History (American University, Washington, D.C.). As an instructor at the Academy of Art, Suzanne developed the online version of the Academy's 20th Century art history course. Suzanne works with hundreds of art students each semester, engaging them in discussions about how the art work relates to history, the students' personal lives and their fields of study.

Throughout her life, Suzanne has been engaged in neighborhood activism. As an artist and art historian, she has always been drawn to art that engages people in experiences and makes an impact on the places where the work is installed. Her research has focused on developments in American art in the 1960s and 70s, from earth and installation art to happenings, socio-political art and identity politics. She is excited by work that challenges people to think in new ways and collaborative projects that invite viewers to participate in creating art and constructing its meaning. Suzanne lives with her family in a co-housing community in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland.

Catarina Negrin  was raised in a very international community. She was born in Berkeley but grew up in Mexico with her Mexican father and American mother.  Her father is an artist, writer and art collector and her parents have run an NGO for over 30 years, which is dedicated to the cultural survival of indigenous people in the Western Sierra Madre.  Growing up in such a tight knit family surrounded by committed artists and thinkers played a huge role in forming her passions.  At 17, she moved back to Berkeley, CA to attend Berkeley High School and later the Peralta Colleges and SF State.  During this time she worked at MSC South of Market as a Bilingual Program Aid for homeless Latinos, as a mentor for at risk youth through Team Oakland, and as an assistant to the Cycles of Change program at Roosevelt Middle School.

Catarina graduated with honors from SF State with a double major in developmental psychology and Spanish linguistics.  She has also taken many courses in early childhood education and is trained as a Montessori teacher.  Since 1994 she has worked on and off with young children.  She owns a home in Temescal with her husband and two children and has helped open a small preschool in the lower unit of their duplex.  Catarina brings to all aspects of her life an interest in exploring how people coexist with one another and their environment.