Authors

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.

Vendramini is president of the Brazilian Rural Society.

Dino is governor of Maranhão state and current leader of the Forum of Governors of the Legal Amazon.

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.

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

Bullock is the executive director of the Cristosal Foundation, an El Salvador-based human rights organization