Cándido Mezúa
Cándido Mezúa is an Embera from Panama and Secretary General of the Mesoamerican Alliance for Communities and Forests, representing forest communities and indigenous organizations from Mexico to Panama’s border with Colombia.
Adolfo Chavez
Adolfo Chavez is a Takana leader from Bolivia, and represents COICA (Coordinator of the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin), an umbrella group covering indigenous organizations in all nine countries of the Amazon.
Oliver Griffin
Oliver Griffin is a freelance journalist based in the U.K.
Susanna Temkin
Susanna Temkin is associate curator for the Americas Society visual arts department
Abel Salas
Abel Salas publishes and edits Brooklyn & Boyle, an art, literature and community journal based in historic Boyle Heights, on L.A.’s Eastside. A poet and journalist, he also cofounded Corazón del Pueblo, a Los Angeles community cultural arts center and collective.
Melissa Lozano
Melissa Lozano is an MFA candidate at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She has studied under and performed with Elia Arce in We Carry a Home With Us and The Fruitvale Project.
Helena Carpio
Helena Carpio is a photojournalist based in Caracas.
Eduardo Mello
Eduardo Mello is a Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Economics.
Fernanda Solórzano
Fernanda Solórzano is the chief film critic for Letras Libres magazine, where she has written since 2001. Her articles have appeared in several Mexican and foreign publications, including the Cahiers du Cinéma supplement “Atlas du cinéma,” Cuadernos Caimán and Sight & Sound. She’s currently working on a Mexican film production dictionary and is a member of the Morelia Film Festival’s official selection committee.
Therese Turner-Jones
Therese Turner-Jones is the General Manager of the Caribbean Country Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Michael G. Donovan
Michael G. Donovan is a senior housing and urban development specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Marina Martínez de Hoz
Marina Martínez de Hoz is an associate at AS/COA. She is from Argentina.
Sarah Edwards
Sarah Edwards is a freelance writer based in New York
Nicolas Shumway
Nicolas Shumway is the dean of humanities and a professor of Latin American literature at Rice University. Previously, he held positions at the University of Texas at Austin and Yale. His scholarship explores Latin American history and culture, with particular emphasis on Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. His best-known book, The Invention of Argentina, was selected by The New York Times as “a notable book of the year” and received Honorable Mention for the Bryce Wood Book Award of the Latin American Studies Association.
Topher McDougal
Topher McDougal is an associate professor at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego.
