Authors

Born and raised in Complexo do Alemão, Coutinho is a photographic reporter with the media group Coletivo Papo Reto. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald and Fusion.

Asher Levine is managing director of JeffreyGroup, a Latin America-focused communications consultancy. From 2011 to 2015 he reported on Brazil’s economy as a São Paulo-based correspondent with Reuters. He holds a master’s degree in Latin American studies from Columbia University, where he focused on Brazil’s economic development.

Michelle Toussaint is a University of Texas at Austin graduate from Monterrey, Mexico.

Antonio Garrastazu is the resident director for Central America at the international Republican Institute.

Ríos is a Mexican scholar and author specialized in inequality and social policy. She holds a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University.

Carlos Vilalta is a professor of research and statistics at the Centro de Pesquisa e Docência Econômicas, in Mexico.

Christina Civantos is a researcher and associate professor of 19th- and 20th-century Spanish American and Arabic literature and culture at the University of Miami.

Leonardo Haberkorn is a prizewinning investigative journalist for the Associated Press in Montevideo.

Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado is Ambassador of Brazil to the United States

Jorge Medina Méndez is an entrepreneur, investor and consultant. He is the president of Proética, the Peruvian chapter of Transparency International.

Anu Madgavkar is a senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute based in Mumbai, India.

Andres Cadena is a McKinsey director based in Bogotá, Colombia.

Franz von Bergen is a reporter for El Nacional, Caracas.

Steven McCutcheon Rubio is a contributing writer to Americas Quarterly.

VELA Colectivo is an investigative journalism and photography collective based in Medellín, Colombia, that looks to expand perspectives on the country’s social issues through in-depth storytelling.