Authors

Maiara Folly is a researcher with the Igarapé Institute.

Bonna Nogueira is a former General-Coordinator for Refugee Issues at Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and a consultant with the Igarapé Institute.

Spencer Chainey is the principal research associate at the Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, University College of London.

Joe Parkin Daniels is a freelance reporter based in Bogotá

Diego Garcia-Devis is a program officer with the Open Society Foundation’s Global Drug Policy program.

Alejandro Franco Restrepo is the executive director of Ruta N in Medellín.  

Jun Olman is a freelance contributor based in Mexico City.

Ona Russell holds a Ph.D. in American literature and is the author most recently of Rule of Capture, an award-winning novel set in 1920s Los Angeles.

Endeavor is a non-profit organization based in New York City that supports high-impact entrepreneurs around the world.

Seth Garfield is a professor of Latin American history and director of the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region, published by Duke University Press.

Claudia de Heredia is a tech entrepreneur in Mexico and cofounder of Kichink.

Allen Taylor leads the Silicon Valley office of Endeavor and serves as the managing director of Endeavor Catalyst — an innovative coinvestment fund through which Endeavor can invest into its portfolio companies.