Lucy is an illustrator and musician from Melbourne, Australia. She is obsessed with realism, human intimacy, the nuances of modern culture, pencil rendering and cats.
Gloria Rodríguez
Gloria is a passionate foodie and tireless traveler. After an extended career as a Telecommunications Engineer, Rodríguez embraced her true passion and embarked on a new journey of discovery centered on food, culture, and tourism. She holds an M.A. in Cultural Management and Cultural Tourism, focusing on culinary heritage and culinary tourism and continues to conduct research in this area, while also working on the design of cultural activities centered on food heritage and food creativity.
Caitlin Purdy
Caitlin is a writer originally from Rochester, New York. She recently moved back to the U.S. after living in Lima, Peru and currently resides in Boulder, Colorado, where she studies Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She enjoys traveling, hiking, kayaking and all things Peruvian, especially pisco.
Miozotis Pumarol
Miozotis is a Jill of all trades, having worked in mediums such as fashion design, illustration, styling, jewelry making, photography and film production. A native New Yorker, she is a first-generation American from a Dominican family. She is a proud advocate of uptown, Spanish rock and sensuality. Miozotis is also known artistically as miopuma, but most of her friends call her mio.
Maricel Presilla
Maricel is a chef, author and co-owner of Cucharamama, Zafra and Ultramarinos in Hoboken, New Jersey. She was the first Latin American woman to have been invited as a guest chef at the White House. She was twice nominated for James Beard Foundation journalism awards. She won Best Chef Mid-Atlantic in May 2012 from the James Beard Foundation, which also named her book, Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America, Cookbook of the Year.
Mauricio Peltier
In 1987, Mauricio moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he published three poetry books, a story for children, a cartoon compilation, and some musical and literary reviews in South American and Spanish magazines. He works as creative director of graphic design and interactive media studios.
María Elena Ortiz
María Elena works as a Curatorial Assistant at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). She has worked as the Curator of Contemporary Arts at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros in Mexico City. And she has collaborated with institutions such as New Langton Arts, San Francisco; Teorética, San Jose, Costa Rica; the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco; and Tate Modern, London. In 2012, she curated Wherever You Roam at the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach.
Jorge Ochoa
After working as a photojournalist in newspapers and magazines in Perú for 10 years, Jorge moved to New York to study photography at the International Center of Photography. He then worked as a master color printer for top fashion photographers. Today, Jorge is a freelance portrait photographer.
Suzanne Oboler
Suzanne is Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at John Jay College of the City University of New York. She is Founding Editor of the academic journal, Latino Studies. Her research centers on human rights with a focus on Latino immigrant incarceration, and on race, immigration and belonging in the Americas. She is the author of Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States.
Nicky Neiman
Nicky is a multi-lingual marketing professional from Argentina. She is the co-founder of Sprouted Creative, a boutique marketing and design firm specializing in small businesses. Nicky has lived in three different countries over the last couple of years and currently lives in Harlem in New York. Nicky loves photography, music and tech.
Antonio Muñoz Molina
Antonio is a freelance writer and the author of more than twenty books, including novels, essays, memoirs and short story collections, His books have won numerous prizes, including the Icaro Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Critics Book Award, and have been translated into more than fifteen languages throughout Europe, the Americas and the Middle East. From 2004 to 2006, Antonio was the Executive Director of the Cervantes Institute in New York, and he has also taught as a visiting professor or writer in residence at several universities.
Adriana Matus
Adriana is a writer with a background in advertising and marketing communication. Having lived in Belize, Costa Rica, Miami, DC, and Chicago, she is now preparing to continue to document her cultural escapades, travel, and eats from Cape Town, South Africa. For a chuckle or two, check out her blog, "The Unconventional Guiri," at www.cafeychanel.blogspot.com.
Nadja Massun
Nadja started working with the United Nations in Mexico City, then moved to Oaxaca, Mexico, where she works as a consultant in development projects, advising indigenous communities in the Sierra Juarez and Mixe. Although always deeply interested in photography and film, she initiated her career as a self-taught photographer in 1999. She works freelance, participates in several workshops at the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photographic Center of Oaxaca and exhibits in different galleries.
Coco Martin
Coco is an architect and a photographer. Martin’s work has been exhibited in various venues since 1991, including the First Biennial of Photography of Puerto Rico, Second Biennial of Lima, Peru, at the Biennial of Photography of Quito, Ecuador, and at the Organization of American States Museum in Washington, D.C. After 8 years as a professor of photography in Lima, Coco now lives and works in New York City.
Alejandra Martins
Alejandra is a lifestyle photographer in New York, specializing in architecture and interiors, food, children and family photos. With a marketing background, Alejandra studied at Photo Manhattan and Lima’s Center of Photography before she became a freelance photographer. Also a blogger, Alejandra is the author of www.zestcatcher.com, a blog where she shares her own photos recipes and life in the big apple.
Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno
Maria is a human rights activist, lawyer, and writer who grew up in Lima, Peru. Now based in Brooklyn, she has spent a decade working in Latin America and the U.S. for Human Rights Watch, where she is now Deputy U.S. Program Director. Maria is working on a book about Colombians’ struggle for truth and justice in the midst of war.
Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack
Yvette writes regularly about her culinary adventures on her blog, MuyBuenoCookbook.com. She also contributes recipes to Betty Crocker; works as a brand ambassador for Princess House and California Strawberries; and has been featured in Saveur, Gourmet, Latina Magazine, People En Español, Cosmopolitan for Latinas, NBC Latino, The Pioneer Woman and Siempre Mujer. Her cookbook, Muy Bueno: Three Generations of Authentic Mexican Flavor, written with her sister Veronica and mother Evangelina, was published in October 2012.
Natalie Maniscalco
Founder and publisher of SALSEEK.com, a digital magazine about Latin dance and music, Natalie is an avid traveler with an addiction to Salsa and a passion for people, culture, languages and writing. If she’s not dancing, reading, writing, or thinking about Salsa, she’s eating Italian food with good family and friends or playing with her lovable dog Mia.
Lynn Maliszewski
Lynn is a freelance writer who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her Colombian roots have augmented her interest in Latin American art, with particular affinities for Cuban, Brazilian, and Chilean artists. She has covered the art scene in New York City for publications, such as Whitehot Magazine, Whitewall Magazine, ArtWrit, Hyperallergic, and BOMB Magazine since 2009.
Jorge López Conde
Jorge is an “almost” architect, “almost” designer, “almost” photographer, and “almost” DJ. He participates in various studios founded with Luis Úrculo (LUJO), Luis Díaz Mauriño (Hot Architects), and Julián López Galán, and he has also collaborated with Herzog&deMeuron, Cero9/AMID, FloresPrats, and Andres Jaque Architects, among others. His work has been published in a number of specialized publications in architecture, photography and design.