Alonso Barros is a lawyer with two decades of experience in advocacy and anthropology involving indigenous peoples and territories. Since 2013, he works as a litigation lawyer on behalf of Atacameño, Aymara, Diaguita, and Quechua peoples involved with the extractive industry in the Atacama Desert. He teaches on the sociology of law, property relations, and corruption.

Gonzalo Pimentel is a social anthropologist and an archaeologist. He is director of the Fundación Desierto de Atacama in Chile, which supports indigenous communities in their environmental disputes against mining companies. He has been awarded two national research funds to investigate ancient paths and geoglyphs of the Atacama Desert.

Juan Gili works with the Fundación Desierto de Atacama, developing projects and initiatives to protect and give social value to the desert heritage. He has worked on establishing the Chug Chug Archeological Park, awarded with the 2017 Conservation Prize by the Council of National Monuments of Chile.

Mauricio Hidalgo is the latest Quechua chief to hail from a long genealogy of village leaders, ruling over the vast and geoglyph-laden territory of Huatacondo (which spans from the Andes to the Pacific Ocean). Mauricio left behind his days as a mining worker to become an amateur palaeontologist and archaeologist, and duly take up his chiefly responsibilities.