Authors

Sital Kalantry is clinical professor of law at Cornell Law School and faculty director of Cornell’s Avon Global Center for Women and Justice.

Cedric Herring is professor of sociology and public policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His forthcoming book is Critical Diversity: The New Case for Inclusion and Equal Opportunity.

María Gracia Andía is professor of law at Universidad de San Andrés and associate researcher at the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) in Buenos Aires.

María Gracia Andía is professor of law at Universidad de San Andrés and associate researcher at the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) in Buenos Aires.

Michael Shifter is president of the Inter-American Dialogue and adjunct professor of Latin American politics at Georgetown University.

Lourdes Melgar is director of the Center for Sustainability and Business at EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Melanne Verveer is ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues at the U.S. State Department.

Magda Hinojosa is assistant professor of political science at Arizona State University. Her book Selecting Women, Electing Women: Political Representation and Candidate Selection in Latin America will be published by Temple University Press this summer.

Michelle Bachelet is the first under-secretary general and executive director of UN Women. She served as president of Chile from 2006 to 2010.

Javier El-Hage is the international legal director at the Human Rights Foundation and author of HRF’s report, The Facts and the Law Behind the Democratic Crisis of Honduras, 2009-2010. Follow him on Twitter: @javierelhage.

William McIlhenny is senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund and a former official at the State Department and the National Security Council.

Hunter T. Carter is a partner at Arent Fox LLP.