Authors

Burt is an associate professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). She is the author of Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru: Silencing Civil Society (Palgrave, 2007).

Imdat Oner is a senior policy analyst at the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy. He served as a career diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey. He worked at the Turkish embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, as a political officer and deputy head of mission from 2014 to 2016. 

Landau French is a former international trade advisor to the chairman of the United States Senate Finance Committee and a longtime expert on U.S.-Cuban relations. As a senior advisor with the Cuba Practice Group at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld, LLP, she advises clients on trade and investment in Cuba.  

Avery Kelly is a third-year student at Georgetown University Law Center. After graduating in May, she will begin a fellowship with Corporate Accountability Lab. 

Fernanda Uriegas is an editorial intern for Americas Quarterly. A Mexican-Cuban journalist, she graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2017.

Aryeh Neier is the president emeritus of the Open Society Foundations and founder of Human Rights Watch.

Rachel López is an associate professor of law at Drexel University’s Kline School of Law. She has researched transitional justice in Guatemala, first as a Fulbright Scholar and then a fellow at the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. Her most recent article on Guatemala, Post-Conflict Pluralism, was published in the … Read more

Tamar Ziff is a program assistant with the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue

Nicolas Otte is the Director of Illicit Trade Prevention for Latin America and Canada Region at Philip Morris International

Edson Luiz Vismona is president of the Brazilian Forum Against Piracy and CEO of ETCO.

Raquel Ceballos Molano, Ph.D., is a professor at Colombia’s Universidad del Valle and specializes in intellectual property and is president of IRCE, Cali’s legal association. 

Ryan Musto is a Ph.D. candidate at The George Washington University