Authors

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.

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.