Laritza Diversent is a Cuban human rights lawyer and pro-democracy activist. In 2010, Diversent founded Cubalex in Havana, a non-profit organization specializing in providing legal assistance to victims of human rights violations.
Rosa María Payá is a Cuban activist for human rights, democracy, and freedom. Payá is the founder of Cuba Decide (Cuba Decides), a nonviolent, nonprofit, nonpartisan and plural grassroots campaign organizing for freedom in Cuba.
Laura Lochman is the principal deputy assistant secretary for energy diplomacy in the Bureau of Energy Resources.
Adrian Hearn is a professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Melbourne.
Patrick Springer served as a program associate for the Migration, Remittances, and Development program as well as program assistant for Think Tank Haiti.
Pavel Vidal Alejandro is an associate professor of economics at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia.
Lenier González was a Special Project Associate in the Office of the President at the Inter-American Dialogue in 2021. He was vice editor of the socio-political analysis magazine Espacio Laical (2005-2014) and co-founder of Cuba Possible (2015-2019).
Ted A. Henken (Pensacola, Florida, 1971) is a tenured associate professor of sociology and Latin American studies at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY).
Camila Piñeiro Harnecker was a professor, researcher and consultant at the Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy at the University of Havana. Her work focuses on economic democracy, self-management, democratic planning, worker cooperatives, business management and public policy towards the enterprise sector.
Carmelo Mesa-Lago is a Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
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