Tex Wells was born in a little town in the Texas panhandle.   He moved to Los Angeles when he was a senior in high school.  After a stint as a volunteer in the Army, he came back to LA where he worked on two Los Angeles Community College District  newspapers.  Tex has served El Vaquero as a photographer for several semesters.

Jane Pojawa is a Southern California-based print media editor/writer who also dabbles in web design. Her passion is historical research and has served as  a secretary/archivist/historian for the Cabot’s Pueblo Museum board of directors 2008-2010), the communications director for the Friends of the Michael White Adobe (2009 – current) and the media and communications chair for the Morongo Basin Historical Society (2010-current). She writes a a blog for her husband, Raven Jake, and brews mead. She is a past editor-in-chief for El Vaquero 2005-2006, and Spring 2011 and served as the editor-in-chief for the Insider, GCC's student magazine, from 2008 - 2014.