Authors

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

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

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

Lucas Iberico Lozada is a freelance reporter based in Lima, Peru.

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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 (@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 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 is a contributor to Americas Quarterly.

Tony Payan is director of the Mexico Center at the Baker Instittue. He is also an adjunct associate professor at Rice Univesity and a professor at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez. His research focuses on border studies, particularly the U.S.-Mexico border. He is the author of The Three U.S.-Mexico Border Wars: Drugs, Immigration and … Read more

A reporter for media group Coletivo Papo Reto, Medeiros lives in Complexo do Alemão. His work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC and VICE.

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.