Authors

Simon van Woerden is Buenos Aires-based freelance journalist originally from the Netherlands. Read his stories here.

Gabriel Guzmán is a musician from Oaxaca who performs with New York-based band Radio Jarocho.

María-Eugenia Boza is a marketing specialist whose research focuses on low-income consumers and business strategy in Latin America. She currently works as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme-Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Alana Tummino is senior editor of Americas Quarterly, and senior director of policy and head of the Cuba Working Group at Americas Society/Council of the Americas. Follow Alana on Twitter @alanatummino

R. Evan Ellis is associate professor with the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS). The author thanks Miguel Perez for his research. The views represented do not necessarily reflect those of the CHDS or the U.S. government.

Ron Haskins co-directs the Center on Children and Families and the Budgeting for National Priorities Project at the Brookings Institution.

Scott Winship directs the Social Genome Project at the Brookings Institution.

Thomas Shannon, Jr. is the United States ambassador to Brazil.

Jamele Rigolini is a senior economist in the World Bank’s office of the chief economist for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Adriana Ramos is the deputy executive secretary of the Instituto Socioambiental (ISA).

Marta Lamas is the founder of Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE). She is also the founder of Fem, the first feminist magazine in Mexico.

Kate Doyle is director of the Evidence Project at the National Security Archive.

Marcelo Paixão is an economist and a professor at the Instituto de Economia at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, where he is director of the Labóratorio de Análises Economicas Sociais e Estatísticas das Relaçoes Raciais (LAESER).

Nancy Pérez García is a Mexican migration expert. She is the director of Sin Fronteras IAP, an NGO based in Mexico City.

Gladis Vila Pihue is President of ONAMIAP.