Authors

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.

Gloria Bustos is the executive director of CONTACTAR.

Ana Margarita González is a researcher for Racial Discrimination Watch.

Gary Hufbauer is the Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC. Mr. Hufbauer has previously held posts at the U.S. Treasury and Georgetown University. He has written extensively on international trade, investment, and tax issues.

Agustín Cornejo is a Research Assistant at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC. Mr. Cornejo previously served as a trade consultant to the Organization of American States (OAS).

Gema Santamaría is a member of the Transnational Network for the Analysis of Maras at ITAM, specializing in gender and youth violence in Mexico and Central America.

Rafael Fernández de Castro is the Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.  

Penfold is Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and Professor at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA). He is the author of El País que se Muerde la Cola: Conflicto Político, Reinstitucionalización y Democratización en Venezuela (2023).

Patricia Márquez is a professor at the University of San Diego and a member of the Latin American Social Network.

Cecilia Vaisman also lived in Cuba from 2002-2007 and is a senior producer for Homelands Productions. They are currently Guest Scholars at the University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute.

Jonathan Zittrain is a professor of law at Harvard Law School, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is author of The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It.