Authors

Amy Erica Smith is associate professor of political science at Iowa State University, and author of Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God (2019, Cambridge University Press). Her research focuses on public opinion and political culture in Latin America, and particularly Brazil.

David Mineta is Deputy Director for Demand Reduction at the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Ethan Nadelmann is founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance.

Nadine Gasman is the senior manager of the UN Secretary General’s UNiTE Campaign to End Violence against Women for Latin America and the Caribbean. Gabriela Alvarez is a programme specialist at the Americas and the Caribbean section at UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women.

César Arias holds a master of public administration degree from Columbia University.

Jeb Blount is a journalist in Rio de Janeiro. In Brazil since 1991, he has covered Latin American oil and gas for agencies such as Platts and Bloomberg News.

Felix Stein is a graduate student in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the UK. His thesis research concerns property justifications and conflict among Bolivian miners.

Paul Manna is an associate professor in the Department of Government and the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary. This article is adapted from a longer working paper completed for the American Enterprise Institute’s Future of American Education Project.

Edward J. Remache is currently a Master’s degree student in New York University’s Global Affairs program and is conducting research on a Ford Foundation-funded project on the private sector and social inclusion with the Americas Society. Sandra Regina Ribeiro and Bridgett Davey Talledo collaborated in the research for this article.

Gino Costa is president of Ciudad Nuestra and a former Minister of Interior of Peru.

Mark P. Jones is the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies and chair of the Department of Political Science at Rice University.

Jean-François Lisée is the executive director of the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal

Thomas J. Trebat is executive director of the Institute of Latin American Studies and of the Institute’s Center for Brazilian Studies at Columbia University.

Fernando M. Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Education and Director of the International Education Policy Program at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on leadership, educational innovation and social entrepreneurship.

Tomas Bilbao is executive director of the Cuba Study Group.