Sara Shahriari
Sara Shahriari is a journalist based in La Paz, Bolivia.
Jorge Derpic
Jorge Derpic is a Bolivian PhD student in the sociology department at the University of Texas at Austin.
Alfredo Rangel
Alfredo Rangel is director of the Centro Seguridad y Democracia at Universidad Sergio Arboleda.
Aldo Civico
Aldo Civico is an assistant professor of anthropology and co-founder of the The International Institute for Peace at Rutgers University.
César Batiz
César Batiz is an investigative journalist at Últimas Noticias in Caracas.
Oliver Stuenkel
Stuenkel is a contributing columnist for Americas Quarterly and Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. He teaches International Relations at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo.
Sam Mendelson
Sam Mendelson is monitoring and evaluation specialist at Arc Finance. He is the co-author since 2009 of the Microfinance Banana Skins risk survey, and is the current dfid/Citi Development Fellow.
Sara Rafsky
Sara Rafsky is Americas research associate at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) where she reports on press freedom conditions in the region.
Mauri König
Mauri König is a special correspondent for the Gazeta do Povo newspaper and the director of the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (ABRAJI).
Kevin M. Goldberg
Kevin M. Goldberg is an attorney at Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, P.L.C., where he specializes in first amendment, Freedom of Information Act and intellectual property issues.
Guillermo Mastrini
Guillermo Mastrini is director of the Master’s in Cultural Industries program at Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ).
Martín Becerra
Martín Becerra is a professor at the School of Communications at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ).
Alfredo Corchado
Alfredo Corchado is a visiting fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies program at the University of California San Diego, codirector of the Borderlands Program at the Coronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, and the border-Mexico correspondent for the Dallas Morning News. He is currently writing his second book, Shadows at Dawn.
Michèle Montas-Dominique
Michèle Montas-Dominique is a Haitian journalist and former spokeswoman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Tim Padgett
Tim Padgett is an American journalist and WRLN-Miami Herald News’ Americas correspondent. He has covered Latin America for almost 25 years.
