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884 bios

March 11th, 2010  |  by Alex Avila  |  published in 1st story guests

Marcelo Suarez-Orozco is the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Elisabeth Harrison is education reporter for public radio station WRNI in Providence, RI. She has a B.A. in…

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March 5th, 2010  |  by scollins  |  published in 1st story guests

Daniel Coates is a community organizer with Make the Road: New York.

José Gaviria was born in Colombia and worked to clean up the rubble at Ground Zero following the attacks on 9/11.

Monica Ortiz Uribe is a freelance print and radio reporter based in…

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February 12th, 2010  |  by Alex Avila  |  published in 1st story guests

Paul Cuadros is a journalism professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of the book A Home on the Field: How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America.

Lydia Gutierrez is an entrepreneur…

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February 4th, 2010  |  by Alex Avila  |  published in 1st story guests

María Emilia Martin is a pioneering public radio journalist with over two dozen awards for her work covering Latino issues and Latin America. She directs the Gracias Vida Center for Media based in Antigua, Guatemala.

Kara Briggs is a Yakama and Snohomish journalist…

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January 29th, 2010  |  by Alex Avila  |  published in 1st story guests

Dan Maloney is a conservative activist based in Long Island, New York and is a Tea Party activist and member of the Gathering of Eagles, New York.

Ruben Castilla Herrera grew up as a migrant farmworker and is currently a Latino progressive activist…

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January 22nd, 2010  |  by Alex Avila  |  published in 1st story guests

Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian-American writer and 2009 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant.

Michele Wucker is executive director of the World Policy Institute and author of the book Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle for Hispaniola.

DBR stands for Daniel…

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January 14th, 2010  |  by Alex Avila  |  published in 1st story guests

Lisa Veneklasen, based in Washington, DC, is the founder and executive director of the international women’s rights organization, Just Associates (JASS), founded in 2002.

Mónica Ortiz Uribe is a freelance print and radio reporter based in El Paso, Texas.

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January 7th, 2010  |  by Alex Avila  |  published in 1st story guests

Xeni Jardin is co-editor of BoingBoing.net.

Marcos Najera is the Latino Affairs Reporter for public radio station KJZZ in Phoenix.

Angelo Falcón is the president of the National Institute for Latino Policy in New York.

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December 17th, 2009  |  by Alex Avila  |  published in 1st story guests

José Feliciano is a multi-Grammy winning singer/songwriter based in New York City.

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December 17th, 2009  |  by Alex Avila  |  published in 1st story guests

Denise Chavezhas written numerous plays and literary pieces about Chicanos, Native Americans and working-class Latino women. She is Executive Director of the Cultural Center de Mesilla in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Joseph Pacheco is a native Nuyorican, retired NYC school superintendent living…






















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