Jorge Argueta
Poet and award-winning author of dozens of popular books for children and young adults, including Caravan to the North, Sopa de frijoles/Bean Soup, and A Movie in My Pillow/Una pelicula en mi almohada. Learn more.

Mario Bencastro
Award-winning writer and artist. His books include Odyssey to the North, A Promise to Keep, Waves of the East River, and El Niño de Maíz / The Boy of Maize. Bio.

Wendy Bermúdez
Dual Language Immersion Coordinator, Arlington Public Schools

Cintia Marizel Bernárdez García
A proud member of the Garífuna community of Santa Rosa de Aguan, Colón, Honduras. She has won many awards for her work as an educator, teacher trainer, social scientist, and writer. Her literary, anthropological and educational work aims to celebrate and preserve Garífuna cultural heritage, folklore, and history. Her children's books include Walȋha garífuna 1, Walȋha garífuna 2 (Leamos Garífuna 1 y 2), Colorear y aprender animales en lengua Garífuna, Wabahüda lau garífuna (Contemos en Garífuna), and Wagücha.

M. Yianella Blanco, Ph.D.
Assistant professor, University of California Davis​ School of Education. Bio.

Floridalma Boj Lopez
Dr. Flori Boj Lopez (she/her) is an assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Chicanx and Central American Studies. She uses a transborder approach to analyze the experiences of Maya migrants as they cross settler colonial borders and encounter distinct racial logics in the United States to deeply consider how they organize and respond to these structures of violence. She’s led professional development for educators in multiple states and continues to partner with projects that seek to bring Central American Studies to K-12 classrooms in Los Angeles. Read more.

Bree'ya Brown
Bree’ya Brown (she/her/ella) is a Panamanian American Digital Archivist at the University of North Texas. As a librarian archivist, Bree'ya focuses on the long-term preservation and accessibility of digitized and born-digital archival materials in a variety of formats. She also teaches Black Latin American courses with a concentration on human agency and the environment. Her research interests and publications center around Central American Studies, Library Science, and Archival Studies.

Marcy Campos
Marcy Campos is a volunteer with the Teaching Central America campaign. She has worked in Central and South America on participatory evaluation projects, the development of women’s leadership, and strengthening community-based organizations. She was on staff at the National Council of La Raza (now UnidosUS) and American University where she headed the Center for Community Engagement & Service and teaches a class called “The Latino Community of the D.C. Metro Area.” Bio.

Jennifer A. Cárcamo
Jennifer is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at UCLA and visiting scholar at Rutgers University in the Center of Latin American Studies. She is the director of the films Eternos Indocumentados and Children of the Diaspora.

Melanie Cerritos
Instructional Specialist, DCPS Early Childhood Education Division

Faye Colon
High School U.S. History Teacher

Ingrid T. Colón, Ed.D. 
Ingrid T. Colón is an education research program manager at UnidosUS. Her research focuses on the experiences of recently arrived immigrant families and their children in public schools, English learners, culturally and linguistically responsive classrooms, and dual language education. Learn more.

Ariana A. Curtis, Ph.D.
Curator for Latinx History and Culture at National Museum of African American History and Culture. TED Talk. Bio.

Anthony Fontes
Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University. Bio.

Juan Pablo Gómez
Juan Pablo Gómez works at the Latin American Library, Tulane University. He has a Ph.D. in Latin American Cultural and Literary Studies from Ohio State University and an M.A. in Social Sciences from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO).  He has held teaching and research positions at the Institute of Nicaraguan and Central American History, at Central American University (IHNCA-UCA) in Managua, and at the Association for the Advancement of Social Sciences (AVANCSO) in Guatemala. His research interests include Central American and Nicaraguan history, culture, and memory.

Richard Grossman                  
Instructor, Northeastern Illinois University, Department of History. Bio. 

Ana Sol Gutierrez
First Latina and Salvadoran elected official to the Maryland General Assembly. Bio.

Muriel Hasbun
Artist, Educator, Founder and Director at laberinto projects. Bio. Also see: Advisor Spotlight.

Stephanie M. Huezo, Ph.D.
Dr. Huezo is assistant professor of history at Fordham University. Her research focuses on community organizing, Central American revolutions, and immigrant activism. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Popular Education Liberates. Learn more.

Lauren Markham
Reporter, writing teacher, and author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and The Making of an American Life. (Available also in a young readers edition.) Her work most often concerns issues related to youth, migration, the environment, and her home state of California. Learn more.

Paul Joseph López Oro, Ph.D.
Dr. Paul Joseph López Oro is the author of the forthcoming manuscript Indigenous Blackness: The Queer Politics of Self-Making Garifuna New York. This is a critical ethnography on how gender and sexuality shape the ways in which trans-generational Garifuna New Yorkers of Central American Caribbean descent negotiate, articulate, and perform at the intersections of their multiple subjectivities as Black, Indigenous, and Central American Caribbean Latinxs. 

Learn more about Dr. Paul Joseph López Oro’s work.

Claudia A. Portillo
Co-founder, Central American Historical and Ancestral Society of California

Ana Patricia Rodríguez
Associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and U.S. Latina/o Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Dividing the Isthmus: Central American Transnational Histories, Literatures, and Cultures. Learn more.

Patrick Scallen
Adjunct Professor of History/Latinx Studies, American University. Editor, Washington History Magazine.

Viky Sosa
ESOL teacher, Silver Spring International Middle School, MCPS