Iana is a Ph.D. Candidate in Public Administration and Government at Fundação Getulio Vargas’s Sao Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV EAESP), and received an MA and BA in Political Science from the Institute of Political Science, University of Brasilia (UnB). In her Ph.D. dissertation, she investigates the multiple roles of top-level bureaucrats in executive governance in multiparty presidential systems. Her research interests are executive governance, bureaucracy, political elites, political appointments, public organizations, public policy, and research methodology (emphasis on...
Verena Baier is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Regensburg, Germany, where she also manages a humanities graduate research group, and is supported by a PhD scholarship of the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw). Previously, she studied English, Spanish and American Studies at Augustana College, IL, the University of Seville, Spain, and the University of Regensburg, Germany. Her research interests include life writing studies, memory studies, social movements, Latin American history and culture, and transnational American Studies. She is currently writing a...
Carolina Botelho holds a Ph.D. in political science from IESP / UERJ, a master's degree in sociology and anthropology from UFRJ and a degree in social sciences from UFRJ. She is currently working on a project on bureaucracy and public policy in Brazil, coordinated by Professor Barry Ames of the University of Pittsburgh. She was a researcher at FGV, IPSOS, UERJ, IPEA, UFRJ and other institutions. She is co-author and co-organizer of the books Reforma da Previdência - A Visita da Velha Senhora; Brasil Pós-Crise: Agenda para a Próxima Década...
Omar Gómez Trejo received his law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and holds a Master's Degree from FLACSO. He worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for 12 years in Mexico and Central America. He was the Executive Secretary of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI...
Lucrecia Martel was born in Salta, Argentina, and attended the National School of Experimentation and Filmmaking in Buenos Aires. She is a film director and screenwriter. She directed films including The Swamp (2001), The Holy Girl (2004), and Zama (2017). Nuestra Tierra was released in 2025.
Carlos R. S. Milani is an Associate Professor at the Rio de Janeiro State University’s Institute for Social and Political Studies (IESP-UERJ). He is also a Senior Research Fellow with Brazil’s National Research Council (CNPq) as well as the Rio de Janeiro State Research Foundation (FAPERJ), and Associate Editor of the Brazilian Political Science Review. His research agenda focuses on Brazilian foreign policy, international development politics, and comparative foreign policy. During his stay at Berkeley, he will be writing a book, provisionally titled, South-South Cooperation and Foreign...
Jamille Pinheiro Dias is the director and a lecturer at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of London. In addition, she is an affiliate faculty member at the Franklin Humanities Institute's Amazon Lab at Duke University, where she was previously a von der Heyden fellow. Prior to joining the University of London, she worked as a Research Associate at the University of Manchester as part of the project Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America, funded by the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her studies involve environmental issues,...
Daniela Rossell was born and raised in Mexico City. She is an interdisciplinary artist and teacher who loves to teach. She works solo and collaboratively in the fields of visual art and writing. Her first book, Ricas y famosas, was described by historian Cuauhtémoc Medina as “among the most significant political works of the art of her country,” and by the New York Times as a “photographic journey through Mexico's twilight zone.” Rossell’s work has been written about in numerous books such as Witness to Her Art, and shown around the world in places such as Greene Naftali...
M.A from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Steiner has been a professor of history and anthropology at the Universidad Nacional and the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. At the Universidad de los Andes, she served as Director of the Department of Anthropology from 2004 to 2009. After that, she was an associate professor and editor of the magazine Antípoda until 2013. She has published various articles about peasantry, colonization, and conflict in Colombia, as well as the book Imaginación y Poder en Urabá. El...
Digital gender violence is a phenomenon that is increasingly prevalent in social media and presents a challenge to governments to take firm action against it. Defamation campaigns, fake news, and the circulation of deep-fake videos containing sexual content or impersonations have damaged politicians’ reputations and disqualified them from politics. The phenomenon is on the raise globally. However, in regions such as Latin America, with its fragile democracies, digital violence is becoming one of the main challenges to political gender equality and democracy because it excludes and silences...
