Authors

Joel Brito is the executive director of the International Group for Corporate Social Responsibility in Cuba and an expert on Cuban labor issues and workers’ rights.  

Juan Cristóbal Bonnefoy is the chief of the Inter-American Institute for Economic and Social Development (INDES) at the IDB.

Matthew Budd is a program officer at RESDAL.

Patricia Ellen is a partner in McKinsey’s Rio de Janeiro office.

Jaana Remes is a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute.  

Raúl Rodríguez-Barocio is chairman of the U.S.-Mexico Foundation and former CEO of the North American Development Bank.  

Boris Muñoz is a Venezuelan journalist. His most recent book is Despachos del imperio.  

Álvaro José Mejía Arias is an attorney for the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC).  

 Wade H. McMullen, Jr. is a staff attorney for the International Litigation Unit at the RFK Center.

Edwidge Danticat most recently published Claire of the Sea Light.

Junot Díaz most recently published This is How You Lose Her.

Carol Stax Brown is the president and executive director of Community Colleges for International Development, Inc., a 40-year-old non-profit membership organization.  

Indira Palacios-Valladares is assistant professor of political science at Missouri State University. Her research focuses on student movements.  

Timothy DeVoogd is a professor of psychology and director of the Latin American studies program at Cornell University.  

Jesus Velasco is the Joe and Teresa Long Endowed Chair in Social Sciences at Tarleton State University.