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.
Stannard “Stan” Baker
Stannard “Stan” Baker was a plaintiff in Baker v. State of Vermont.
Julián Castro
Julián Castro is a two-term mayor of San Antonio, Texas.
Santiago Levy
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
Mónica Roa is the director of the Gender Justice Program at Women’s Link Worldwide.
Beatriz Cardoso
Beatriz Cardoso is executive director of Centro de Educação e Documentação para Ação Comunitária (CEDAC) in Brazil.