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.
Denisse Delgado is a former Program Manager for the Migration, Remittances, and Development Program.
Pavel Vidal Alejandro is an associate professor of economics at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia.
Luis Carlos Battista is a Cuban lawyer and previous Steven M. Rivers Fellow at the Center for Democracy in the Americas.
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.
Dialogue Member Roberto Veiga González is a lawyer and former magazine editor. In May 2014, Veiga and his partner Lenier González founded Cuba Posible, a civil society project and platform for political dialogue and analysis in Cuba, where Veiga served as Director.
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