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Fidel Martinez is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. He writes the Latinx Files, a weekly newsletter that focuses on the American Latinx experience. Before joining the Times in 2018, he worked as politics editor for Mitu and as a social storytelling producer for Fusion Media Group. He is a proud native of the Rio Grande Valley.

Tania is the global director of audience development at WIRED, based in San Francisco. She is responsible for creating and implementing a content distribution strategy across search, newsletters, multiple social networks, and emerging platforms. Before joining WIRED, Gonzalez was a senior audience development manager for CNET Media Group. She started her career in media as a production assistant for Univision Arizona, and soon after, she got promoted to news producer.

Vix Reitano is the award-winning Founder + CEO of Agency 6B, an advertising agency based in Jersey City, NJ, specializing in revenue-generating communications + strategy for CPG companies and D2C brands. Reitano is a Forbes #Next1000 2021 Honoree and a Member of the Forbes Agency Council. She founded Agency 6B in 2015 as a six-figure business in six weeks.

Ricardo Sandoval-Palos es defensor del lector para la red PBS, el interlocutor entre las audiencias y la comunidad de periodistas y creadores de contenido de la red de medios públicos. Tras cuatro décadas como autor, reportero y editor de investigación, corresponsal en América Latina, Sandoval-Palos ha sido reconocido como líder en la comunidad periodística. Más recientemente, ayudó a lanzar palabra., la revista digital de la Asociación Nacional de Periodistas Hispanos.

Immigration Reporter at WBEZ

Feli is an Argentinian journalist and product thinker working at the intersection of media, technology, and sustainability. In her previous role as the Innovation Director at SembraMedia, she worked with news organizations across Latin America, Spain, and the United States to promote innovation and led product design and systems development for the organization.

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Adriana is a Brazilian documentary photographer based in Phoenix, Arizona.

Lalo is an award-winning visual/media artist and television/film writer. A Los Angeles resident, he has been chronicling the ascendancy of Latinos in the U.S. for over a quarter-century. The busy Chicano artist is the creator of the syndicated daily comic strip La Cucaracha seen in the L.A. Times and other newspapers nationwide. Alcaraz is the founder and Jefe-in-Chief of POCHO, which started out as a Xeroxed zine in the last century and now ranks as a leading Latino satire website.

Miguel is a documentary filmmaker and field producer for VICE News in New York City, where he​'​s lived ​ for ​​the last seven years. He's directed and produced news documentaries for Showtime, VICE News Tonight, HBO, Hulu, Spotify, and podcasts in English and Spanish, such as El Hilo. His works are focused on the secondary effects of the war on drugs​,​ as well as migration issues.

Ainara is a journalist, producer, and video editor at the New York Times. During her tenure at the Times, she has covered breaking news and political extremism, reporting on separatism in Catalonia, immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border, and pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. In 2020, she joined the Times’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Visual Investigations team, focusing on human rights violations, police brutality, and far-right movements nationally and internationally.

A global health and infectious disease expert. Professor, Emory University.

Founding member, The Uproot Project. Senior reporter, The Center for Public Integrity

Managing editor, Factchequeado.

Managing editor, palabra. NAHJ. Creator, Comadres al Aire podcast.

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Founder, The Bronx is Reading. Member, Advisory Board of POC in Publishing, Latinx in Publishing

Jazz and Salsa Music trombonist, composer and bandleader

Four-time Emmy-nominated, Mexican-American filmmaker and journalist. Director, "Mija" documentary.