Maria Aguiar is Global Programs Director at Grassroots International. She has extensive experience with Puerto Rican social justice organizations and is a Cuba solidarity activist. She was on the Spanish editorial team for the landmark Boston Women's Health Book Collective volume Our Bodies, Ourselves. An impassioned public speaker, she has a special interest and expertise in social justice work in Latin America.
Gar Alperovitz is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park Department of Government and Politics. He is a former Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University; a founding Fellow of Harvard's Institute of Politics; a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Alperovitz has also served as a Legislative Director for the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and as a Special Assistant in the Department of State. A political economist and historian, his numerous articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Nation, and The Atlantic among other publications. He has been profiled by The New York Times, the Associated Press, People, UPI, and Mother Jones and has been a guest on numerous network TV and cable news programs.
Kendra Fehrer is a doctoral student in Anthropology and Development at Brown University writing about alternative forms of development in Latin America. She works with the Boston Bolivarian Circle and has participated in two delegations to Venezuela: one during the World Social Forum 2006, and the other during the 2006 presidential elections. Her research has explored ways of democratizing development among a social movement of the unemployed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is co-author of the book Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank, and WTO.
Jose Antonio Lucero is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Temple University. His work on indigenous social movements in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru has been published in several scholarly journals and books. He is the author of Struggles of Voice, Voices of Struggle: The Politics of Indigenous Representation in the Andes (forthcoming).
Joseph M. Schwartz is Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University. His teaching and published work focuses on the complex interaction among morality, ideology, and political and institutional development. He is the author of The Permanence of the Political: A Democratic Critique of the Radical Thrust to Transcend Politics and The Future of Democratic Equality: Reconstructing Social Solidarity in a Fragmented United States (forthcoming). An activist since high school, he serves as Chair of the National Steering Committee of Democratic Socialists of America, and on the executive committee of his faculty and professional staff union, the Temple Association of University Professionals (AFT).
David Schweickart is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, with earned Ph.D.'s in Mathematics and Philosophy. His primary areas of research are Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy and Economics, and Marxism. He also has major interests in Feminist Theory, Existentialism, Critical Theory, and Race and Racism. He has published several books, chapters, and articles on these topics. His primary exposition of Economic Democracy, Against Capitalism, has been translated into both Spanish and Chinese. Dr. Schweickart has served as faculty advisor of Loyola's Amnesty International chapter and the Loyola Organization in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, and has co-chaired the Committee on the Racial Climate at Loyola. He is an active member and program organizer for the Conference of North American and Cuban Philosophers and Social Scientists, held annually in Havana, as well as for the Radical Philosophy Association.
Peter Winn is Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies at Tufts University, and a Senior Research Associate at Columbia University's Institute of Latin American Studies. Dr. Winn has made a lifetime commitment to educating broader publics about Latin America and the Caribbean. He is the author or editor of several books on Latin America, including Weavers of Revolution, an oral history of Allende's Chile,and Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era.
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