June Macfarlane Jeffers was born June 12, 1923 in St. George, Utah, and moved to Las Vegas in 1935. She attended Las Vegas Grammar School. She married Jay W. Jeffers in St. George, Utah, on December 18, 1948. She was active in the Boy Scouts, and worked as a bookkeeper and realtor in Las Vegas, Nevada. June Jeffers passed away August 10, 2004 in Las Vegas.
Rodrigo was raised in a mix-status Mexican family. He was born in Mexico and immigrated at age three. He became a citizen of the U.S. when he was in 8th grade. He is a grad student who has been a student worker on the Latinx Voices project since its inception in 2018.