Authors

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

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

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

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

Stannard “Stan” Baker was a plaintiff in Baker v. State of Vermont.

Julián Castro is a two-term mayor of San Antonio, Texas.

Santiago Levy is vice president for sectors and knowledge at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), having previously served as the general manager and chief economist of the IDB’s research department. From 2000 to 2005, he was the general director of the Mexican Social Security Institute, and from 1994 to 2000 he served as Mexico’s undersecretary … Read more

Mónica Roa is the director of the Gender Justice Program at Women’s Link Worldwide.

Beatriz Cardoso is executive director of Centro de Educação e Documentação para Ação Comunitária (CEDAC) in Brazil.

William Jefferson Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States.

Charles Shapiro is a retired U.S. diplomat and president of the Institute of the Americas, a public policy think tank at the University of California San Diego.

Ivan Petrella (@ipetrella) is a Harvard PhD and the academic director of Fundación Pensar in Buenos Aires.

Nathaniel Parish Flannery is a Mexico City-based writer .