Authors

José Urtubey is co-founder and director of Grupo Tapebicuá, a forest industry group in Argentina

Daniel Artana is chief economist at FIEL in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Patricia Mercado is president of Liderazgo, Gestión y Nueva Política S.C. and director of the Instituto Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir. She was a presidential candidate in Mexico in 2006. Helen Mack is founder and president of the Myrna Mack Foundation. Cristián Castaño Contreras was director of the Mexican Institute of Youth from 2001 to 2006. … Read more

Carlos Yescas is the author of Indigenous Routes: A Framework for Understanding Indigenous Migration. He is a PhD student at The New School for Social Research.

John Echeverri-Gent is an associate professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.

Abraham F. Lowenthal is the Robert F. Erburu Professor of Ethics, Globalization and Development at the University of Southern California and president emeritus of the Pacific Council on International Policy. Pablo Rojas Mejía is a junior at Brown University concentrating in Political Science and Economics.

Mariana Martínez Esténs is an independent multimedia journalist based in Tijuana, Mexico.

Ernesto Rois-Méndez is president of the Latin American Aeronautical Association.

Nicolás Entel is an Argentina-born, New York-based film director. Sins of My Father will be premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and will be aired by HBO next fall. Lucas Entel is a PhD student in political science at Yale University, also living in New York.

Mitchell A. Seligson is Centennial Professor of Political Science and Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. He is director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) that coordinates the AmericasBarometer surveys. His most recent book is The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Daniel E. Moreno Morales holds a PhD in … Read more

David Barton Bray is a professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Florida International University and board member of EcoLogic Development Fund, a Cambridge, MA, NGO that works on community-based conservation in Mexico and Central America.

Tamaryn Nelson is program coordinator for Latin America and the Carribbean at WITNESS, a New York-based human rights organization.

Félix Ulloa is President of the Instituto de Estudios Jurídicos de El Salvador (IEJES) and is a former member of the Electoral Supreme Tribunal of El Salvador. He was previously the National Democratic Institute’s (NDI) Senior Country Director in Haiti and Morocco.

Norberto (Tito) Loizeau and Alejandro Mashad are Endeavor Argentina entrepreneurs. Endeavor is an organization dedicated to assisting high-impact entrepreneurs globally.