Carolina De Robertis
Internationally bestselling author and activist. Her novels of family in historical South America blend with her decades’ work with women’s rights organizations.
Hispanic Speakers
Andres Oppenheimer
Pulitzer Prize winning Latin American journalist, and international authority on the growing dominance of Latin America in the global economy.
Enrique Morones
Internationally acclaimed activist and advocate for immigrants, founder of Border Angels, he brings to the forefront stories of those often forgotten in this fight for social justice.
Daisy Hernández
Hernandez writes about the intersections of gender, race, and feminism, and the media representations of women of color, most recently in her memoir A Cup Of Water Under My Bed
Richard Rodriguez
An award–winning, thought provoking writer, hailed in The Washington Post as “one of the most eloquent and probing public intellectuals in America”.
Video: Richard Rodriguez at the Library of Congress
Diana Yanez
Comedian and Actress, Diana Yanez one-woman show tells a powerful, fantastically funny personal account of growing up Cuban, Catholic, and closeted in Miami!
J.L. Torres
Author of The Accidental Native and critical commentator of culture, arts and politics from a Latino perspective.
Jesus Papoleto Melendez
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez (“Papo”) is a New York-born Puerto Rican award-winning poet most associated with the Nuyorican movement.
Video: Jesus Papoleto Melendez Speaking at Taller Boricua, NYC