Michael Ahn Paarlberg is an Institute for Policy Studies Associate Fellow and assistant professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration...
Diana Torres-Valverde is the New Mexico Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. She graduated cum laude from Amherst College with a double major in Latin American History and Black Studies. Her study of Latin American revolutions and black people’s struggle for...
Jo-Marie Burt teaches politics and Latin American Studies at George Mason University, where she is acting co-director of the Center for Global Studies. She is also a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), where she has monitored the trial of...
Terry Collingsworth is a managing partner of the Conrad & Scherer Washington, D.C. office. As a labor and human rights attorney, he specializes in litigating cases that seek to hold multinational firms accountable for human rights violations in their global...
Lisa Haugaard is the executive director of the Latin America Working Group which encourages U.S. policies towards Latin America that promote human rights, justice, peace and sustainable development.
Karen Hansen-Kuhn is International Program Director at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Her work has focused on bringing developing countries’ perspectives into public debates on trade, food security and economic policy.
Writes on Iraq, particularly the Shi’ite Arab majority; Also Iraq — history of internal resistance and political parties Iraq — the 1991 anti-Saddam uprisings betrayed by the last Bush administration Colombia — US support for Colombian military...
Dr. Peter Rosset is a researcher at Center of Studies for Rural Change in Mexico and co-coordinator of the Land Research Action Network. He is also Global Alternatives Associate of the Center for the Study of the Americas and an affiliated scholar of the University of...
Wayne Smith is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy where he directs the Cuba Program and is a contributor to the National Security Program.
Coletta A. Youngers is the Latin America Regional Associate with the International Drug Policy Consortium and a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America. She is an analyst of international drug policy, human rights and political developments in the...
Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a noted linguist, author and foreign policy expert.
FPIF Senior Analyst, Mark Engler, is a writer based in New York City and senior analyst with Foreign Policy In Focus. He is author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation Books, 2008). An activist originally from Des Moines, Iowa,...
Lora Lumpe is the legislative representative on conventional weapons at Friends Committee on National Legislation and a coordinator of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs.