Authors

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.

Bill Hinchberger (@hinchberger) is a Paris-based journalist who lived in Brazil for over two decades. He has covered Latin America for outlets including The Financial Times, Business Week and Variety, and is the founding editor of the online travel guide BrazilMax.com.

Dr. Douglas Rodrigues specializes in the health care of indigenous populations at the Federal University of São Paulo’s Paulista School of Medecine.

Stephen Corry is director of Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, and author of the book, Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow’s World.

Mark J. Plotkin, Ph.D. is president and cofounder of the Amazon Conservation Team, which works with indigenous tribes to manage and protect ancestral rain forests. As experienced ethnobotanist, he is the author of several books, including Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice. Follow him on Twitter @DocMarkPlotkin.

Elaíze Farias is a Brazilian journalist from Amazonas state and cofounder of the Agência Amazônia Real.

Barbara Fraser is a freelance journalist based in Lima, Peru.

Luisa Leme is a digital media journalist and filmmaker at AS/COA

Beto Veríssimo is a senior researcher and co-founder of the Amazon Institute of People and Environment (Imazon), a thinkand-do tank NGO based in the Brazilian Amazon. He holds a master’s degree in ecology from Pennsylvania State University (USA) and a graduate degree in agriculture engineering from the Federal Rural University of the Brazilian Amazon.