Staff
Andrés Guerrero (co-editor)
Andrés is a photographer and artist from Bogotá, Colombia. He documents coastal regions drawing attention to the environment and people’s everyday lives. He is a graduate student of Journalism and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University.
Khalea Robertson (co-editor)
Khalea is a graduate student of Journalism and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. She earned her B.A. in Spanish with International Development Studies from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England in 2019. Trinidad and Tobago is her home.
STAFF WRITERS
Julianne Chandler
Julianne is a writer and educator based out of Bolivia. Currently, she is a graduate student of Global Journalism and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. She earned a B.A. in Anthropology and Latin American Studies from NYU, and a M.A. in International Development from Sussex University. She has spent the past decade stewarding intercultural education programs for youth across Latin America.
Contributors
Founders
Roque Planas (former director)
Roque’s works as editor of the Huffington Post’s Latino Voices vertical, where he covers Latino politics and Latin American affairs. Before joining HuffPost, he worked as a staff writer for the Fox News Latino and the New York Daily News. His work as a freelance journalist has appeared in Foreign Policy Magazine, the World Politics Review, and the New Internationalist. He holds an M.A. in history from Texas State University at San Marcos and earned an M.A. in the global joint master’s program in journalism and Latin American studies at New York University, where he was a Henry MacCracken Fellow.
Andrew O’Reilly (former editor-in-chief)
Andrew’s work has appeared in ESPN The Magazine, Ralph Lauren Magazine, Hemispheres, The New York Times and The New York Daily News among others. He holds a B.A. in journalism from the University of Pittsburgh and a joint M.A. in journalism and Latin American studies from New York University. His regional focus in reporting is Mexico and Central America. Andrew now works at Fox News Latino.
Mari Hayman (former editor-in-chief)
Mari is a native of Washington state and earned a B.A. in comparative literature at Stanford University. She holds a master’s degree in journalism and Latin American studies at New York University , where she focused on memory and human rights in Uruguay. Mari now works as as managing editor for Americas Quarterly.
Rachel Brooks-Ames Lachenmeier (staff writer)
Rachel was a Henry MacCracken Fellow at New York University , where she earned a master’s degree in Latin American Studies. She grew up in Austin, Texas, and earned her bachelor’s degree from Smith College in Latin American/Latino Studies. Her past work has focused on Mexico, U.S.-Mexico relations, and Mexican Americans and immigrants in Texas. Rachel is currently earning a doctorate at the Centro Latinoamericano-Suizo at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.