Trevor’s unusual brand of stand-up comedy has gained him a cult following worldwide. He has toured with Stewart Lee and Russell Brand and written plays for theater and radio. Trevor is a frequent speaker at schools, universities and businesses. He recently refuted Descarte’s maxim ‘Cogito ergo sum’ by tipping a glass of water over his head at the Oxford Union. 2013 sees Lock’s big screen debut in Alvaro Velarde’s comedy, “Como Quien No Quiere La Cosa.”
Anna Lesniak
Anna is a documentary and social photographer and a yoga teacher: “I was born in Poland, in a beautiful little village in the mountains. Simplicity and nature are what I considered beauty. New York had shown me the dirty side of life, teaching me that the real beauty here is hidden under sophisticated lifestyles, make up, perfume. I’m loving it!”
Tessa Liebman
Tessa has been traveling since she was little; she has eaten sheep’s brain in a Moroccan market; spent way too much money on salt in Paris; bicycled around Lima; and traveled to Mexico on a research grant from The Culinary Trust. She is a freelance food, travel and lifestyle writer and food stylist with work in Epicurious, New World Review, WSJ Magazine, Brides and Manhattan magazines. Her years in kitchens as a professional chef inform her work.
Michelle Christina Larsen
Michelle is a freelance music, lifestyle and fashion writer from Brooklyn. Active in NYC’s global music scene, she has organized events and booked bands at the infamous Mehanata Bulgarian Bar since 2009, including an after party for Peruvian chicha-revival group Bareto and Chile’s Chico Trujillo. Her cumbia obsession led her to Peru in 2013, where she bought up a suitcase full of fabric and put on an “electro-cholita” runway show for a charity organization upon returning to NYC.
Margarita Larios
Margarita was born and grew up in Mexico City. She received her bachelor´s degree in Latin American Literature from the Universidad Iberoamericana and collaborated as a copy editor for several magazines published by Editorial Expansión. She currently lives in New York and is working on her first novel.
Fumi Koike
Fumi is a Japanese illustrator based in Tokyo. Fumi graduated from the Musashino Art University in Tokyo and loves to illustrate the simple comforts of daily life, nature, food and animals. She maintains an illustration blog on blogspot.
Ayu Iwashima
Ayu is a Tokyo-based freelance illustrator and designer, who finds inspiration in the cuisines and ingredients of cultures around the world. Ayu is also inspired by swimming in the sea and mountain climbing.
Julio Granados
Julio is an graphic artist, singer, actor and gay activist. He studied at Pontificia Católica University, and at Toulouse Lautrec Art and Design Institute. Julio Granados has won several prizes for his beautiful illustrations, working for famous Spanish and American publishing houses such as Santillana, Alfaguara and Mcgraw Hill. In 2011 his work was exhibited at El Museo del Barrio in New York City.
Laura Gonzáles
Laura was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and moved to the cold American northeast in 2007. Based in New York City, she is a contributing writer for several arts publications, specializing in contemporary art, artists and events. As a cataloguer at Phillips de Pury & Company, she oversees the production of the auction catalogues for contemporary and Latin American sales.
Vanessa Griggs
Vanessa is a photographer and a producer based in New York City. She currently owns her own production company, Little Giant Productions, which specializes in international advertising photo shoots. When she is not busy working on a shoot, she likes to explore different countries with a camera in hand. Vanessa always finds time for a good action thriller film, papayas, green tea and sushi.
Eduardo González Cueva
Eduardo is a Peruvian human rights activist and writer. A citizen of the world, he has been based in New York for 14 years. He works at the International Center for Transitional Justice, where he specializes in researching war crimes. His human rights advocacy has been featured in The New York Times, El País, Globe and Mail, Al Jazeera, BBC and other media. His blog, in Spanish, “La Torre de Marfil,” is dedicated to topics of culture and politics.
Mario Gamper
Mario is an award-winning, Berlin-based creative consultant. He supports top brands in more effectively communicating with and engaging their customers. He also works pro bono as Creative Director for Platoon Kunsthalle, an urban playground for subcultural trendsetters in Seoul and Berlin. Every winter he returns to Miami to enjoy the hybrid Latin-American culture.
Nicole Franchy
Nicole holds a Graduate Degree in Audio Visual and Visual Arts from HISK, Belgium. Her work has been exhibited in several shows in Latin America, Europe and the U.S., including the recent Havana Biennial, Dublin Contemporary, and Lima Photography Biennial. Nicole currently lives between her native Lima and Berlin. She can be found roaming flea markets, searching for photos, old postcards and objects.
Melissa Franchy
Melissa is a photographer, traveler, foodie, scuba diver and art lover, who is passionate about exploring the world. Born in Peru, Melissa moved to New York City 12 years ago. She has studied International Business and Photography. Her love for food, travel and global culture drives her to always crave her next travel adventure.
Izabel Fontes
Izabel is a Brazilian journalist from Recife, doing a Ph.D. in Argentinean Literature in Germany. She knows how to laugh of herself and tries to do it all the time. Trying every day to be a better person, she is learning to hear more, to speak less and to take deep breaths once and while. Fontes also collaborates with cultural magazines like www.suplementopernambuco.com.br.
Guillermo Figueroa
Guillermo is a freelancer photographer who lives in Lima, Peru. He has worked with international organizations, like the U.N., and as a photo editor for Somos magazine and Grupo Editorial El Comercio en Lima. His work has appeared around the world in publications like El Pais (Spain), Revista Don Balon (Spain), Travesías (Mexico) and Food & Wine (USA). He currently works as Photo Editor and Chief of Web News at Espacio360.
James D. Fernández
James is a Collegiate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at NYU, where he has taught since 1995. He is currently working on an archival and documentary project regarding the history of Spanish immigrants in the United States: tracesofspainintheus.org.
Maria Elvira Dieppa
Maria Elvira is a painter most of the time. Her primary work is to be a liaison between New York and Barranquilla, where she lives and works. She was one of the co-creators of an exhibition, Gracias por pensar en mi in 2010. In 2008, she started the Art Experience Institute, an informal art school in Puerto, Colombia. This past September she co-created the exhibition Bahia Cupino, in the beach town of Puerto Colombia, with fellow local artists and invited artist from New York and London.
Ana De Orbegoso
Ana is a Peruvian visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary art practice explores different aspects of the individual or social psyche through the use of popular iconography and staged situations. She has also created images for musician’s records. Recipient of a 2008 NYFA, NALAC and En Foco fellowships, her work has been widely exhibited. Her project Vírgenes Urbanas, based on colonial paintings of the School of Cusco, is to this day the most locally exhibited art project in Peruvian history.
Sebastián Cruz Roldán
Sebastián likes to be called Henry Morgan and play at being a pirate. He doesn’t knows how to handle himself without a camera or a cigarette, nor how to talk about himself. Since 2009 he has worked in La Residencia En La Tierra, an artist residency program in Colombia, and also as part of El Colectivo Invisible, an artist collective based in Bogotá.