Authors

Marta Tienda is Maurice P. During ’22 Professor in Demographic Studies and professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University.

Kevin P. Gallagher is associate professor of international relations at Boston University and co-author of The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization (Stanford University Press, 2010).

Layne Holley is director of community services for the International Customer Management Institute (ICMI) and leads its editorial and research initiatives.

Andrea Armeni is executive director of the Gaia Amazon Fund, which supports the local Indigenous population in Colombia’s Northwest Amazon.

Colin Robertson is a senior strategic advisor with McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP and vice president of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. He served as first head of the Advocacy Secretariat at the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC.

Matthew Walter has worked as a correspondent in Chile, Venezuela and Guatemala. He is currently pursuing a masters degree in international affairs at Columbia University. Whitney Eulich contributed reporting.

José Merino is professor of political science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.

Alejandro Poiré was the Mexican government’s spokesman for security affairs at the time of writing this article before becoming the director-general of the Center for Intelligence and National Security (CISEN). He is now Mexico’s interior minister.

Dr. Nancy E. Brune is a contractor with the Center for a New American Security and a Truman National Security Project Fellow.

Nora Lustig is Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics at Tulane University and nonresident fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington DC.

Eduardo J. Gomez is assistant professor in the department of public policy and administration at Rutgers University. His research focuses on the domestic and international politics of government response to diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, obesity and tuberculosis, in Brazil, the United States and the other emerging nations.

Liam Brody is senior vice president of business development and corporate relations at Root Capital.

Jonathan Morduch is a professor at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and managing director of the Financial Access Initiative. He is co-author of The Economics of Microfinance and Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day.

Kara Andrade is a contributing blogger to AQ Online. She is a Central American-based freelance photojournalist and multimedia producer whose work has been featured in Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, the Christian Science Monitor, France24, the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, and the Oakland Tribune. Nic Wirtz is a freelance journalist who has lived … Read more