Tracy Devine Guzmán is Associate Professor of Latin American Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami. Her research interests include intellectual history, social and political theory, and cultural production, especially as these fields intersect with questions of race/ethnicity and environmentalism. her first monograph, Native and National in Brazil: Indigeneity after Independence (University of North Carolina Press) received Honorable Mention for the LASA Brazil Section Book Prize (2014). She is currently working on a second book project, “Transcontinental Indigeneity: Linking the Americas and the Global South”.

Rafael R. Ioris is Professor of Latin American History and Politics at the University of Denver. He is the author of different books, articles, and book chapters on the history of development in Brazil and on US-Latin American relations. He is a researcher at the Institute for the Study of the United States in Brazil and has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute of International Relations at the University of São Paulo. He is a regular contributor to media outlets in Brazil and the United States.

Fernanda Martinelli is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Brasília (UnB) and holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Between 2019 and 2020 she was a Visiting Scholar at Brown University. She conducts research on consumption and material culture, focusing on inequality, development, and social change. She has done fieldwork in different parts of Brazil and abroad, and since 2018 she has led the research group “Communication and Material Culture.”

History and International Studies Professor at Louisiana State University. Previously, he taught Latin American history at Dartmouth, Wellesley, and Brown, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2018. He was also an Assistant Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. In addition to writing extensively for the general public in the United States and Brazil in outlets like The Guardian, New Republic, Folha de S. Paulo, and Piauí, he is currently preparing a book manuscript on the contested politics of nationalism in 20th-century Brazil.

Fábio de Sá e Silva is Assistant Professor of International Studies and Wick Cary Professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Oklahoma, where he also co-Directors the OU Center for Brazil Studies. Fábio studies the social organization and the political impact of law and justice in Brazil and comparatively. He is one of the coordinators of the Project on Autocratic Legalism (PAL) and the host of the Project’s Podcast PALcast. He is also a Trustee of the Law and Society Association (Class of 2023), and a member of the Executive Committee of the Brazilian Studies Association.

Cecília MacDowell Santos is Professor of Sociology at the University of San Francisco and Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (UC Berkeley) and a Master in Law (University of São Paulo). She is the author and editor of several books and articles about gender-based and intersectional violence, state, justice, human rights, and transnational legal mobilization in Brazil and in the inter-American system of human rights.

David Nemer is Associate Professor of Media Studies and director of Latin American Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press, 2022) and Favela Digital: The Other Side of Technology (GSA, 2013). Nemer has a PhD in Computing, Culture, and Society from Indiana University, a Master’s in Anthropology from the University of Virginia and in Computer Science from Saarland University. He is also a Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center and an Affiliated Scholar at Princeton University’s Brazil Lab. Nemer has written for The Guardian, El País, HuffPost, Salon, The Intercept, and CartaCapital.

Marina Marçal is an expert in Climate Policy, Legal and Social Sciences, Gender and Ethnic-Racial Relations. She coordinated the Climate Policy Portfolio of the Climate and Society Institute (iCS). She was a visiting scholar in the Columbia Law School's Environment and Energy program in 2022 under the guidance of Professor Jedediah Purdy with a focus on Climate Policy and Equity. She is a black ecofeminist and lawyer, PhD candidate and she holds a Master in Sociology and Law in the field of Socio-environmental, Rural and Urban Conflicts at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF-RJ), where she graduated. She also holds a Master in Ethnic-Racial Relations from the Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET-RJ). Marina has experience in academic environmental research for over 11 years by PROEX-UFF, FAPERJ and FIOCRUZ (including the Map of Conflicts of Environmental Injustice in Brazil) and fieldwork involving indigenous peoples, quilombola communities, afro descendants and populations around mineral activity in Minas Gerais and Pará, as well as rural workers in the northeast of Brazil. She was cited in 2018 in The Intercept Brazil's list of black experts. In addition to law firms, she worked with Policy and Advocacy in the area of Private Sector, Human Rights and Inequalities at Oxfam Brazil. At the Climate and Society Institute, Marina worked on projects such as the Subnational Platform for Climate, Brazil Climate Action HUB, Brazil Alliance for Climate Action working with the multisectoral implementation of the Brazilian NDC, including articulation with National Congress and subnational actors specially governors and mayors, in addition to the Brazilian trajectory towards the Climate Change Conferences. She is also a member of the Concertation for Amazon, Climate Reality Project, Columbia Women Leaders Network and Women Leaders for Planetary Health.

Professor of Organization Studies and the coordinator of the Network for Socioeconomic and Organizational Studies in the Amazon Rainforest (www.resoa.ufscar.br) at the Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar). My current research addresses the dynamic of markets associated with the illegal deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, especially finance and the production and processing of soybeans and cattle beef.

Marcos Arruda moved to Washington, D.C. in 1971 after a year in Brazilian prisons for his opposition to the regime. Many years later his mother, Lina Penna Sattamini, documented her son’s story in A Mother’s Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture Under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship (Duke UP, 2000). Marcos co-founded the Committee against Repression in Brazil (CARIB) in Washington, D.C. and was an active national leader in the movement to denounce the dictatorship. A Washington Post interview about his torture experiences was a significant influence on the newspaper’s editorials against U.S. government’s support of the military regime.

Ralph Della Cava, as a professor of Latin American history at City University of New York, Queens, was a leading force in the movement against the Brazilian dictatorship throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. Working behind the scenes to mobilize academics and activists to speak out against the gross violation of human rights in Brazil and other related issues, he co-founded American Friends of Brazil, helped prepare the first dossier in the United States about torture in Brazil, and organized the circulation of the first national petition, “We Cannot Remain Silent,” that denounced U.S. complicity with the military regime.

Dr. Margaret E. Crahan is a Senior Research Scholar and Director of the Cuba Program at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University. In 1970, she accompanied Brazilian exiled Congressmen Márcio Moreira Alves on a campus tour to denounce torture and repression in Brazil. In 2013 the government of Brazil recognized Dr. Crahan for her work on human rights, particularly in support of its return to democratic civilian government. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights and the Board of the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Ron Chilcote is the Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives, a theoretical and scholarly journal, founded in 1974, for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. The journal played a leading role in publishing scholarly works about the the socio-economic and political issues that Brazil faced during the dictatorship and afterward. Professor Emeritus of Economic and Political Science at the University of California, Riverside, he has also written several important books on Brazil including, Intellectuals and the Search for National Identity in Twentieth-century Brazil (Cambridge, 2010).

Timothy Harding is Professor Emeritus in Latin American history from California State University, Los Angeles and a member of the editorial collective of Latin American Perspectives. His doctoral dissertation from Stanford University on the history of Brazilian trade unions was an important study of the process of state-control over the labor movement before and during the military regime. In the 1970s and beyond, he played a leading role in solidarity activities with Brazil, sponsoring the visit of Brazilian exiles and other public oppositionists to Southern California to talk about the situation in the country.

Margaret Keck is Professor Emerita of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. In 1981, she and her husband Larry Wright founded the Brazilian Labor Information and Resource Center in Washington, D.C. that organized solidarity with the labor movement in Brazil among trade unionists in the United States. She is also the author of The Workers’ Party and Democratization in Brazil (Yale, 1992), and co-author of Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy in International Politics (Cornell, 1998), Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (Duke, 2007), and Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics (Oxford, 2013).

Harry Strharsky co-founded the Committee Against Repression in Brazil (CARIB) in Washington, D.C. in 1971 to prepare a demonstration for the State visit of General Médici of Brazil with President Nixon and denounce U.S. complicity with Brazilian torture through a display of posters, theater, and song in Lafayette Park directly across from the White House. The Washington Post and national TV distributed these images throughout the country. CARIB also lobbied Congress to end US. support for the Brazilian dictatorship. Harry became the U.S correspondent for the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Brazil and helped merge CARIB into the Common Front for Latin America (COFFLA) in 1973.