Staff
Alejandro Velasco, Executive Editor
Alejandro Velasco is the Executive Editor at The NACLA Report on the Americas. He is a historian of modern Latin America whose research and teaching interests are in the areas of social movements, urban culture and democratization. His book, Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela (University of California Press, 2005), couples archival and ethnographic research to examine how residents of Venezuela’s largest public housing community pursued full citizenship during the heyday of Latin America’s once-model democracy. Before joining the Gallatin faculty, Professor Velasco taught at Hampshire College, where he was a Five College Fellow, and at Duke University. Professor Velasco’s research has won major funding support from the Social Science Research Council, the American Historical Association, the Ford Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation, among others, and he has presented widely at both national and international conferences and symposia.
Laura Weiss, Managing Editor
Laura Weiss previously served as NACLA's Web Editor and Editorial Assistant. She holds a Masters degree from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU. Previously, Laura worked as the Latin American Rights and Security Fellow at the Center for International Policy. She has written for The Nation, The Huffington Post, World Politics Review, Foreign Policy in Focus, and TruthOut. She graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in Hispanic Studies in 2013.
Sam Kellogg, Fundraising and Events Coordinator
Sam Kellogg is Outreach and Events Coordinator at NACLA, as well as a Master's student at NYU's Media, Culture, and Communications department. He previously served as NACLA's social media coordinator. He pursues research and activism at the intersection of social movement building and media technology, and published his first scholarly work in Teknokultura. He graduated with a B.A. in sociology and anthropology from Lewis & Clark College in 2012.
Lauren Kaori Gurley, Web and Editorial Assistant
Lauren Kaori Gurley is a master's student in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Journalism at NYU. Her work has been published in The American Prospect, Salon, In These Times, AlterNet, TruthOut, and The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in Comparative Literature in 2015.
Helen Hazelwood-Isaac, Podcast Coordinator
Helen Hazelwood-Isaac produces NACLA's quarterly podcast and is a doctoral student in History at NYU. Helen graduated from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2014.
Board of Directors
Thomas Kruse, Board Chair Program Director, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Roque Planas, Associate Editor, Huffington Post
Pierre LaRamée, Executive Director, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
Marcial Godoy-Anativia, Managing Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
Jill Lane, Director, NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Stuart Rockefeller, Instructor, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University
Christy Thornton, Assistant Professor of History, Rowan University
Editorial Committee & Contributing Editors
Alejandro Velasco, Executive Editor
Emily Achtenberg
David Bacon
Dan Beeton
Nicole Fabricant
Greg Grandin
Bret Gustafson
Linda Farthing
John L. Hammond
Judith Adler Hellman
Alex Main
Todd Miller
Joseph Nevins
Urayoán Noel
John Lindsay-Poland
Deborah Poole
Seemin Qayum
Gerardo Renique
William I. Robinson
Fred Rosen
Christy Thornton
Kirsten Weld