Author Bios

Alfred Stepan is Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Democracy, Toleration, and Religion at Columbia University.

Kristel Mucino is Communications Director at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA).

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd is an associate editor at AlterNet and a Brooklyn-based freelance writer and editor. Formerly the executive editor of The FADER, her work has appeared in VIBE, …

Ramón López is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland.

Rinaldo Brutoco is a well-known futurist and the founding president of the World Business Academy, a nonprofit think tank launched in 1987 with the mission to educate and inspire …