Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas
 

Maria del Carmen Landa

Maria del Carmen Landa is a public policy programs associate for Americas Society/Council of the Americas. Follow her on Twitter @mclanda.

 

Vanessa Rosales

Vanessa Rosales is a faashion and style writer and editorial consultant from Cartagena, Colombia.

 

Elizabeth Gonzalez

Elizabeth Gonzalez is a web and media associate at AS/COA. She covers the Caribbean and outhern Cone for AS/COA Online. Follow her on Twitter @El_iG.

 

Carlos Aguilar

Carlos Aguilar is a Mexico City-born freelance film journalist, critic and filmmaker. In 2014, he was one of six young film critics to be chosen for the first Roger Ebert Fellowship, organized by the Sundance Institute and Indiewire. He is based in Los Angeles.

 

Jonathan Levinson

Jonathan Levinson is a multimedia journalist based in Mexico City. A U.S. army veteran, he has a master’s in international affairs from Columbia Unviersity.

 

Brie Iatarola

Brie Iatarola holds a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from the University of California, San Diego, where she is also a researcher and PhD candidate in environmental communication. Her master’s thesis addressed the economic and cultural effects of the global surf industry in postwar El Salvador. Her current research examines the complexitiese of surf … Read more

 

Salvador Paiz

Salvador Paiz is a research fellow at Fordham University and the vice president of the Foundation for the Development of Guatemala.

 

Carolina Ávalos

Carolina Ávalos is an economist and international social policy adviser, and former president of the Social Investment Fund in El Salvador. A Vanderbilt University and KU Leuven graduate, she was a 2015-2016 visiting scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

 

Luís Vieira

Luís Vieira is a freelance reporter based in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

Adam Talbot

Adam Talbot is a doctoral researcher at the University of Brighton whose research focuses on community resistance to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

 

Juan Navarro-Staicos

Juan Navarro-Staicos was born in Argentina and currently resides in New York, where he is responsible for global macro investments at OMERS Capital Markets.

 

Julie Schwietert Collazo

Julie Schwietert Collazo (@collazoprojects) is a bilingual freelance journalist and writer who covers Latin America – especially Puerto Rico, Cuba and Mexico – and Latino/a USA for a variety of publications. She has lived in San Juan and Mexico City and currently lives in New York City.

 

Peter Klaren

Peter F. Klaren is professor of history and international affairs at The George Washington University and author of Peru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes (Oxford University Press, 2000).

 

Ivana Mellers

Ivana Mellers is a contributor to Americas Quarterly.

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