Authors

Andalusia Knoll Soloff is a freelance journalist based in Mexico City.

Manuel Rueda is a journalist based in Bogotá, Colombia, who has been covering Latin America since 2008.

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 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 is a freelance journalist based in the U.K.

Susanna Temkin is associate curator for the Americas Society visual arts department

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 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 is a photojournalist based in Caracas.

Eduardo Mello is a Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Economics.

Therese Turner-Jones is the General Manager of the Caribbean Country Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Michael G. Donovan is a senior housing and urban development specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Marina Martínez de Hoz is an associate at AS/COA. She is from Argentina.