Authors

Martha Cargo is assistant to the music director at Americas Society, and is also a flutist specializing in contemporary and improvised music in New York.

  Ray Suen is a musician and composer based in Los Angeles. Classically trained as a violinist in San Diego, he did his first national tour performing with the glam rock outfit Louis XIV in 2007.  He would go on to play guitars and keyboards for Las Vegas rock band The Killers as well as … Read more

Maya Quiroga is a journalist based in Havana.

Christina L. De León is associate curator at Americas Society.

Pablo Helguera is a visual artist living in New York.

Rito Ramón Aroche is a Cuban poet.

Andrés Neuman is a Spanish-Argentine writer, poet and translator.

Maxwell Radwin is a freelance journalist based in Santiago, Chile.

Alan McPherson is Professor of International and Area Studies, ConocoPhillips Chair in Latin American Studies, and Director of the Center for the Americas at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author or editor of nine books, including The Invaded: How Latin Americans and their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupatinos.

Jane Fraser is the CEO of Citigroup Latin America, responsible for all businesses in the 23 countries where Citi is present. Fraser has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a master’s in economics from Cambridge University.

David Truly has studied retirement migration to Latin America since 1997 and is currently a professor at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara. He received his doctorate in geography from the University of South Carolina before moving to the Lake Chapala area of Mexico to examine the growth and impacts of international retirement migration.

Paulo Barreto is a senior researcher at Imazon. He holds a master’s degree in forest science from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree in forestry from the Federal Rural University in Pará state, Brazil.

Blanca Treviño is president and CEO of Softtek. Under her leadership, Softtek has become the leading IT services company in Latin America, having earned recognition from Gartner and Forrester Research for being the only non-Indian provider to pose serious competition for the U.S. market.