Authors

Barry Ames is the Andrew Mellon Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Pittsburgh.

Renato Opice Blum is partner and CEO at Opice Blum law and leads the FGV digital law course. Paulo Sá Elias is a partner at Opice Blum.

Francisco Resnicoff is a senior specialist and Gabi Huesca is a junior consultant at Cefeidas Group in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Mark Warschauer is professor of education and informatics at the University of California, Irvine. His published books include Technology and Social Inclusion, Laptops and Literacy, and Learning in the Cloud.

José Raúl Perales is executive director of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America (AACCLA) and a lecturer at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. The expressions and opinions contained in the text are the author’s alone and do not represent the official position of AACCLA or … Read more

Rubén M. Perina teaches at George Washington and Georgetown Universities and, as a former OAS official, directed election observation missions in Paraguay, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic.

Nora Lustig is the Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics at Tulane University.

Dani Rodrik is Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Lenín Moreno Garcés is vice president of the Republic of Ecuador.

Denise Paraná is TKTK.

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

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