Staff

Christy Thornton
Executive Director and Publisher

Christy Thornton is a media and global justice activist who has lived in New York for a decade, and has done field work in Cuba and El Salvador. She holds a master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, and is particularly interested in international institutions, U.S. foreign and economic policy, and development theory. She has been NACLA's Executive Director since 2005.

Pablo Morales
Editor, NACLA Report on the Americas

Pablo Morales has been editor of the NACLA Report on the Americas since January 2007. Born in Seattle to Bolivian and North American parents, he holds degrees from Wesleyan University and New York University. His research interests include U.S.-Cuban relations, informal empire, and race and ethnicity in the Americas.

Fred Rosen
Senior Analyst

Fred Rosen is an independent journalist based in New York and Mexico City. Over the past 15 years he has covered Latin American political and economic affairs for a variety of Mexican and U.S. publications including NACLA Report on the Americas, El Financiero, and the Mexico edition of The Miami Herald. From 1987-1989 he taught economics at the Central University of Venezuela on a Fulbright fellowship. He is co-editor, with Eric Hershberg, of Latin America After Neoliberalism (The New Press, 2006) and editor of Empire and Dissent: The United States and Latin America (Duke University Press, 2008).

Joao Da Silva
Outreach and Circulation Coordinator

The son of two political exiles (Chile and Brazil), Joao was born in Sweden and has lived all over the world since. He spent his childhood on the hills and beaches of Hawaii and his adolescence in Santiago, Chile where he was introduced to the local activist community. He graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Sociology from the Universidad de Artes y Ciencias (ARCIS) in Santiago, Chile and then relocated to Washington, D.C. where he worked as Communications Coordinator with School of the Americas Watch.

Teo Ballvé
Web Editor

Teo Ballvé was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1979 and grew up in the United States, Mexico, and Venezuela. He has been with NACLA since 2003 and now lives in Colombia, where he edits the NACLA website and works as a freelance journalist with a focus on the Southern Cone and the Andean region.

Board of Directors

Eric Hershberg, Chair Chair, Latin American Studies, Simon Fraser University, and President, Latin American Studies Association

Judith Friedlander Hunter College, CUNY

Fred Goff President, DataCenter

Pierre LaRamée International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region

Mike Locker President, Locker Associates

Deidre McFadyen United Federation of Teachers

Robert M. Siegel Cabot Capital

Steve Volk Chair, Latin American Studies, Oberlin College

Editorial Committee

Kate Doyle Senior Analyst, National Security Archive

Sujatha Fernandes Professor, Queens College, CUNY

Jean Franco Professor Emeritus, Columbia University

Marcial Godoy-Anativia NYU Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics

Greg Grandin Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, NYU

Jack Hammond Professor, Hunter College CUNY

Deborah Poole Professor, Johns Hopkins University

George Priestly Director of Latin American Area Studies, Queens College CUNY

Seemin Qayum Independent Researcher and Consultant

Hobart Spalding Professor Emeritus, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center

Lisa Vives Executive Director, Global Information Network

Greg Wilpert Editor, Venezuela Analysis