Monica Prestes
Prestes is a journalist based in Manaus.
Elza Fátima Rodrigues
Rodrigues is an activist at the Center for the Study and Defense of Afro-Brazilians of Pará – CEDENPA and the Network of Black Women. She is a journalist with a doctorate in media studies from the Complutense University in Madrid, Spain, and the coordinator of the City of Belém’s Anti-Racist Coordinating Committee.
Teresa Vendramini
Vendramini is president of the Brazilian Rural Society.
Flávio Dino
Dino is governor of Maranhão state and current leader of the Forum of Governors of the Legal Amazon.
Gloria Porras
Porras has served as a Constitutional Court Justice in Guatemala since 2011. She was chief justice for the 2015-2016 and 2020-2021 sessions. She was previously the secretary general of the Public Ministry of Guatemala and occupied several positions within the country’s Institute for Public Criminal Defense.
Jorge González-Gallarza
González-Gallarza is a researcher at Fundación Civismo in Madrid.
Jacqueline Peschard
Jacqueline Peschard is a Mexican sociologist and professor at UNAM, where she specializes in political and electoral systems. She is a former counselor to the National Electoral Institute.
Brenda Brito
Brito is an associate researcher at Imazon.
Gerardo Berthin
Berthin is the director of the Latin America and Caribbean programs at Freedom House
Luis Guillermo Solís
Solís served as the 47th president of Costa Rica (2014–2018). He has written extensively on Latin America and co-chaired the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel for the Economic Empowerment of Women. Solís was the interim director and a distinguished visiting professor at the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University from 2018 … Read more
Edmund Ruge
Ruge is a freelance journalist based in Rio de Janeiro.
Noah Bullock
Bullock is the executive director of the Cristosal Foundation, an El Salvador-based human rights organization
