Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas
 

David Razú

David Razú is a deputy in the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District (Mexico City), where he chairs the commission on human rights.

 

Nelson Cruz

Nelson Cruz is executive director of Fundación Salvador del Mundo (FUSALMO), a nonprofit organization dedicated to working with at-risk youth in El Salvador.

 

Aura Dalia Caicedo

Aura Dalia Caicedo is head of the “Kambirí” National Network of Afro-Colombian Women.

 

Víctor Hugo Cárdenas

Víctor Hugo Cárdenas is a Bolivian politician who was one of the first representatives of Indigenous descent in the national congress, and was vice president of Bolivia from 1993 to 1997.

 

Marina Silva

Marina Silva served as Brazil’s minister of the environment between 2003 and 2008 and was the first rubber tapper elected to the Federal Senate.

 

Helen Rivas

Helen Rivas is an Alabama-based immigrant rights activist and founding member of Latinos Unidos de Alabama.

 

Benedita da Silva

Benedita da Silva is a Brazilian politician who from 2002 to 2003 was governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, the first female or Afro-Brazilian to hold that position.

 

Sergia Galván

Sergia Galván is executive director of Colectiva Mujer y Salud in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

 

Paul Brunet

Paul Brunet is chairman of the board of directors of the Conseil pour la protection des malades.

 

Graciela Dixon

Graciela Dixon is the former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Panama, the first Afro-Panamanian woman to hold that position.

 

Wenceslao Casares

Wenceslao Casares is an Argentine-born technology entrepreneur, based in Silicon Valley, California.

 

Carolina Trivelli

Carolina Trivelli is Peru’s minister of development and social inclusion.

 

Julio Frenk

Julio Frenk is dean of the faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health. From 2000 to 2006 he was Mexico’s secretary of health.

 

Hernando de Soto

Hernando de Soto is a Peruvian economist and president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, a Lima-based think tank devoted to the promotion of property rights.

 

Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez

Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez is co-founder of Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala—CONAVIGUA.

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