Authors

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.

Kathy Castor, a Democrat, is the congresswoman for Florida’s 14th congressional district.

Tom Emmer, a Republican, is the congressman for Minnesota’s 6th congressional district. 

Thelma Aldana is the attorney general of Guatemala.

Tarcila Rivera Zea is one of the most recognized indigenous activists in Peru and globally. She has defended indigenous rights through her organization, CHIRAPAQ, and related institutions for 30 years and is a member of the U.N. Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues.