Authors

Santiago Fontiveros is a Venezuelan lawyer with an M.A. in international taxation from NYU and an M.B.A. from Cass Business School. He is a regular contributor to national newspapers El Universal and Analitica as a political analyst.

Eric Gettig is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Georgetown University.

Ricardo Torres Pérez is an auxiliary professor at the Centro de Estudios de la Economía Cubana at the Universidad de la Habana.

Carlos Loarca is a Guatemalan lawyer with a specialization in international indigenous law, currently serving as executive director of the Asociación Pluriculturalidad Jurídica de Guatemala (Guatemalan Association of Juridical Pluriculturality). He is a legal representative of the petitioners in a complaint against the Marlin Mine filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Angela Bunch has an LLM in international human rights law from Oxford University.  

Olivia Amter is junior consultant at Cefeidas Group, an international advisory firm based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Erick Monterrosas Castrejón es un consultor independiente en derechos humanos. Ha colaborado con instituciones académicas y organizaciones de la sociedad civil en Estados Unidos, México y Centroamérica en temas de género, derechos sexuales, organización de víctimas, libertad de expresión, migración y participación política. Twitter @nierico

Samuel George is a Latin America specialist working in Washington DC.

Emma  Sokoloff-Rubin is a reporter for GothamSchools in New York City.  Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin are coauthors of Sustaining Activism, A Brazilian Women’s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration (www.sustainingactivism.com).

Jeffrey W. Rubin is Professor of History at Boston University. He received a MacArthur Research and Writing Grant for his research in Brazil and a grant from the Open Society Institute to study business responses to progressive reform in Latin America. 

Sarah Stephens is executive director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas in Washington DC.

Thor Halvorssen is president of the Human Rights Foundation, a human rights organization based in New York.

Patricio Villareal is co-founder of Alivio Capital.

Diego Moya-Ocampos is a senior political risk analyst for Venezuela for IHS Global Insight and IHS Jane’s. He previously worked as a lawyer for a private firm in Venezuela advising government agencies and private businesses on constitutional, regulatory and environmental issues, and as Chief Secretary at the Venezuelan Attorney-General’s Office.

Andrea Román Alfaro works as a sociologist for the social studies team of JGP Consultoria in Lima, Peru. She studied Government-Sociology at Skidmore College, New York and is interested in social development and public policy.