Dylan Corbett is the founding executive director of the Hope Border Institute and has over fifteen years of experience working in international and human development globally and in the borderlands. Dylan has served as an official at the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and also coordinated the work of the Vatican's Migrants & Refugees Section in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Dylan previously worked with the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development as well as with the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the USCCB's national anti-poverty program. He has studied at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Dylan is the chair of the Commission on Migration for the Diocese of El Paso. He is a board member of the Border Immigration Law & Justice Center, a member of the Texas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, a member of the advisory board of the Texas Resilient States Project, and he is also a consultant to the USCCB Committee on Migration. Dylan lives in El Paso with his wife and two children.

Originally from South Carolina, Monica spent twenty years living across the country and overseas as a military spouse before her family returned to El Paso, TX to make it their forever home. Monica holds a bachelor's degree in comprehensive special education from Converse University. After working with migrant populations in Austria, she developed a passion for those seeking asylum and other displaced persons and has experience working with local migrant shelters. Monica is the mother of four children and loves to read in her free time.

Bethany is an educator by training and experience. She has traveled internationally with high school students as a leader with the World Learning Youth Ambassador Programs and the Experiment in International Living.  As a scholar with the National Endowment for the Humanities, Bethany studied at Duke University where she focused on the role of ordinary people and organizations in achieving social change during the Civil Rights Movement. After 14 years of full-time teaching in Massachusetts and Vermont, she left the familiarity of a classroom to offer hospitality to migrants in New Hampshire by starting a Catholic Worker house with her husband. They live with their two boys in El Paso for a time of transformative service, relationship building, and accompaniment with migrants. 

Born and raised in El Paso, Aimée graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a bachelor's in Psychology and Philosophy. She recently earned her Master's degree in Philosophy at the same university. Aimée brings years of experience working in public policy, including immigration, and loves reading and discovering new things. 

Originally from Spain, Jesús has a Master's in Migration Studies at the University of San Francisco under a Fulbright scholarship. He holds a Bachelor's in International Relations (studied in Spain and Brazil) and a Master's in European Union. He has been honored to accompany migrant justice advocacy movements in Spain, the US, and Central America. His research interests focus on border externalization policies, comparative migration policies, and the root causes of forced migration. 

Lucy del Valle is an accountant by training with a degree in Certified Public Accounting from the University of San Carlos of Guatemala. She has worked in government, the nonprofit sector and with international organizations, including the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and she holds a certificate in NGO administration from the FOCSIV Institute in Rome, Italy. Lucy is a mother of two young children and an active community volunteer in the borderlands.