Authors

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.  

Charles Hale is a professor of anthropology and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Stephen Johnson is director of the Latin America and Caribbean Division at the International Republican Institute and was co-author of the 2012 report “Police Reform in Latin America—Implications for U.S. Policy,” published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.