91社区

Mar铆a Auxiliadora Gonz谩lez Malabet 

UNINORTE, Colombia  
鈥淚mpact of the Political Incidence School for Migrant Women. A Case of Social Integration Between Venezuelan Migrants and Colombian Leaders in the Colombian Caribbean Coast.鈥濃��&苍产蝉辫;
 
Mar铆a Gonz谩lez-Malabet has a PhD in Government from the 91社区 (USF). Her major is in Comparative Politics and a minor in International Relations. She received different fellowships to finance her doctoral thesis from institutions, such as the Inter-American Foundation, the Sisters of the Academy, the University of South 91社区, and the Universidad del Norte. Her doctoral dissertation is focused on the political agency of women for the progressive change of Latin American cities. She is director of Instituto de Desarrollo Pol铆tico e Institutional 鈥� IDEPI, and a full-time professor and researcher at the Universidad del Norte in the Department of Political Science and International Relations. Her research focus is on Development Policies, Gender, Latin American Feminisms, and Social Movements. She is currently a serving in the postdoc fellowship 鈥淥rchides鈥� from Colombia鈥檚 Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation researching the impact of the Colombian Peace Treaty (2016) in Women麓s political participation in PEDT zones.

Anastasia Berm煤dez Torres 

University of Seville, Spain 
鈥淭he Colombian diaspora in Europe and the Truth Commission: the role of exiled women in the political space鈥濃��&苍产蝉辫;
 
Anastasia Bermudez is senior lecturer/researcher in the Department of Social Anthropology, Universidad de Sevilla (Spain). She has a PhD and MSc in Geography, an MA in Area Studies (Latin America), and a BA in Human Geography and Politics, all from the University of London (Queen Mary; Institute of Latin American Studies). Her main research interests include international migration and mobilities, violence and peace in Colombia, and gender and intersectionality.鈥�

Angelina Cotler 

John Hopkins University 
鈥淭he main challenges programs in Latin American and Latinx studies face in the current political climate in the U.S.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;
 
Angelina Cotler holds a PhD in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and is currently the inaugural program director of the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies program at Johns Hopkins University.

Previously, she was the senior associate director of the Center for Latin American at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and the University of Pittsburgh, before taking up the position of Director of Membership and Development at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). She was the co-chair of the Peru section in LASA and currently is the media manager. 

Luciana Gandini 

UNAM  
鈥淢igration policies and prolonged transit in the Americas: The contemporary mobility context鈥濃��&苍产蝉辫;
 
Luciana Gandini is a research fellow at CLALS, non-resident fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, and a full-time tenured researcher at the Legal Research Institute at UNAM in Sociology law. She is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI, CONACYT), level II. She coordinates the University Seminar on Studies on Internal Displacement, Migration, Exile and Repatriation (SUDIMER) at UNAM, which鈥痯romotes research on migration and human mobilities at UNAM.鈥疭he is a co-author of鈥� Caravanas鈥� (UNAM, 2020), which was a co-recipient of the鈥�.鈥� In 2018, she received the award "Reconocimiento Distinci贸n Universidad Nacional J贸venes Investigadores 2018" from UNAM. 

Her project,鈥�鈥淓merging challenges on immigration policy: the case of Migrant Protection Protocols and other Latin American forced immigrants,鈥� aims to identify some of the main public policy challenges on both human mobility and international protection in the Latin American region, particularly in Mexico, in a context where the increase on the mobility of people in need of international protection contrasts with the tendency of governments to impose limits on the right of asylum.鈥� Additionally, in recent months she has focused her research on the impacts of the COVID-19 sanitary crisis on the inclusion and effective access and exercise of socio-economic rights of Venezuelan and Central American displaced populations in Latin America and how this situation generates an even more complex scenario and demands reshaping immigration policies through the enforcement of international protection principles.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;

Luciana is interested in topics related to international migration, development and human rights, (in)voluntary migration and forced migration, Venezuelan exodus and Central American migrant caravans, impacts of COVID-19 on migrant and refugee population, return and skill migration, and qualitative and quantitative social research methods.

Richard Kernaghan

University of 91社区  

Richard Kernaghan is an ethnographer of aesthetics and legal relations interested in rivers, settler colonialism, and political time. He teaches courses on legal anthropology and the craft of ethnographic representation at the University of 91社区, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Affiliate Faculty in the UF Center for Latin American Studies.

Betilde Mu帽oz-Pogossian

Organization of American States  
鈥淩egional agenda for the inclusion of migrants and refugees in the Americas鈥濃�� 
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Betilde Mu帽oz-Pogossian (Venezuelan-American) is director of the Department of Social Inclusion of the Secretariat for Access to Rights and Equity at the Organization of American States (OAS), where she is responsible for directing the work of the OAS in matters of social inclusion and access to human rights with special consideration to populations in vulnerable situations.鈥疊etilde Mu帽oz-Pogossian has a Master's degree in International Relations from the 91社区 and a PhD in Political Science from 91社区 International University. 
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She has edited, published, and co-authored several articles and volumes on issues of Latin American reality. Some of her recent contributions include the articles, 鈥淭he Summit is a Great Chance for Better Cooperation on Migration鈥� (2022) and 鈥淥ne Year Later: Slow Progress on a Key Migration Initiative鈥� (2023), both published by Americas Quarterly, and the book chapter, 鈥淗ow to achieve more representation of indigenous and Afro-descendant people in Latin America and the Caribbean鈥� (UNAM 2022). 
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She is also a founding member and coordinator of the Network of Latin American Female Political Scientists 鈥�#NoSinMujeres,鈥� a project that seeks to promote, make visible, and empower the work of women dedicated to Latin American Political Science.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;
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She is a regular columnist for the Venezuelan daily, El Nacional, and for the Web portal Caracas Chronicles, as well as a guest columnist in various regional media. She is also a 2021 Fellow of the Draper Hills Fellowship on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law at Stanford University, a member of the Advisory Board of the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University (GMU), and a Senior Associate (Non-Resident) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. 
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In 2008, 2016, 2019, and again in 2020, she won the Outstanding Performance Award granted by the Secretary General of the OAS, in recognition of her extraordinary work and contribution to the American organization. Mu帽oz-Pogossian won the Status of Latinos' Alumna Award in 2023.

Edlin Veras

Swarthmore College 
鈥淐aribbean Apartheid: Race, Racism, and the Law in the Dominican Republic鈥濃��&苍产蝉辫;
 
Dr. Edlin Veras is a visiting assistant professor of Sociology and Black Studies at Swarthmore College. His research and teaching interests include race, racism, immigration, and鈥痑ntiblackness鈥痠n the U.S. and Caribbean,鈥痺ith a specific focus on Haiti and the Dominican Republic. His research has been published in the 鈥淪ociology of Race and Ethnicity.鈥� He is a 2020 American Sociology Association Minority Fellow and is working on his book project tentatively鈥痶itled, 鈥淓xpired and Unfree: How Anti-Blackness Shapes Life after Work.鈥�

Angela Vergara

University of Central 91社区  
"Navigating Success: The Impact of Latin American Student Presence on Academic Achievement in a Hispanic-Serving Institution"鈥�
 
Dr. Angela Vergara is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Central 91社区. Her areas of expertise include Latin American sociology, global and social inequalities, and reproductive health. Her research involves topics in Hispanic/Latinx race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, mental health outcomes, and interwoven identities. Her current research focuses on gender differences, immigration status, culture language and the effects on the educational achievement gap, social class, health inequalities, and mental health accessibility in the Hispanic/Latinx population. Her teaching interests include qualitative research methods, health inequalities, and global inequalities.