As writers, we are often told to be a “voice for the voiceless”—but what does this mean exactly? In this panel, award-winning alumni of University of Arizona’s Southwest Field Studies in Writing—a summer research, writing, and teaching program that sends fellows to collaborate with nonprofit community partners—will discuss the importance of reciprocal learning in art making, writing in the borderlands, and how, no matter our location, grappling with borders affects each one of us as writers and as people.