Sandra Alvarez Ramírez (Cuba)
Licenciada en Psicología, Máster en Estudios de Género. Se desempeña como periodista digital, webmaster y bloguera. Activista por la equidad racial.
Sonya Donaldson (Jamaica)
Assistant Professor of World Literature at New Jersey City University. Her teaching and research interests include African diasporic literature, speculative fiction, film, and digital humanities. Her current DH project focuses on James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” She is the former technology editor at Black Enterprise magazine; her writing has also been featured in Inc. Technology online, Windows Sources, and Corporate Secretary Magazine.
Rachel Finn (USA)
Rachel Finn is a writer and editor and a current student of Library and Information Science at the Pratt Institute in New York City. She is the founder of Roots Cuisine, an organization (& future library!) that promotes the foodways and related culture of the global African Diaspora. She is also developing the Black Artisans Project.
Amanda French (USA)
THATCamp Coordinator at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, helping scholars worldwide organize their own version of The Humanities and Technology Camp.
Alex Gil (Republica Dominicana)
Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Columbia University. Alex Gil researches in otr-American literatures and culture, digital humanities and critical theory. A Scholars’ Lab and NINES former fellow, he now consults scholars at Columbia on the use of technology in the humanities.
Maité Hernández-Lorenzo (Cuba)
Periodista cultural y crítica de teatro. Publica en revistas culturales cubanas. Durante un año mantuvo la sección La quinta columna, en Unasletras. Ha ejercido la docencia en la Facultad de Arte Teatral del Instituto Superior de Arte. Tiene en preparación un libro de relatos. Desde 2003 está al frente de la Dirección de Comunicación e Imagen de la Casa de las Américas.
James Neal (USA)
MLS graduate student at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies, Maryland’s iSchool. James’ extensive experience includes work for the PeaceCorps, academic and scholarly publishing, and research in anthropology.
Amilcar Priestley (Panama)
Director of Proyecto Afrolatin@. Amilcar is currently building a platform for afrodescendientes to explore issues of citizenship, participation and rights in our times. His recent research focuses in particularly on the use of mobile technology as access for economic survival.
Yasmín S. Portales Machado (Cuba)
Marxista, Feminista y Bloguera. Estudié teatro. He trabajado como periodista cultural, editora y jefa de redacción en publicaciones digitales. Periodista y ensayista sobre género, diversidad sexual y literatura fantástica. Miembro de LASA y CLACSO. Activista LGBT y narradora sin remuneración.
Mamyrah Prosper (Haiti)
Global & Sociocultural Studies (Sociology, Anthropology, Geography), Florida International University (FIU). Mamyrah’s work focuses on Haitian social movements, particularly the current rising « anti-Occupation » movement. This summer, she will begin her fieldwork in Port-au-Prince.
Marta S. Rivera Monclova (Puerto Rico)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Framingham State College. Combining digital methods with ethnic and gender studies, Marta has become an important part of the #transformdh movement. She has recently begun work on a digital, bilingüal edition of Tato Laviera.
Milena Recio Silva (Cuba)
Profesora del Instituto Internacional de Periodismo “José Martí” y de la Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad de La Habana. Investiga el periodismo digital en Cuba: lo que se ve en las pantallas y lo que ocurre en las salas de redacción.
Luis Rondón Paz (Cuba)
Promotor de derechos humanos, estudia Comunicación Social en la Universidad de la Habana, trabaja como actor para la Radio y en paralelo ejerce como especialista en infocomunicaciones de otro organismo.
German Vargas (Puerto Rico)
Doctoral student in the Math, Science, & Learning Technologies program of the School of Education at UMass Amherst. His “mad scientist” approach to DH involves mixing volatile quantities of Information Architecture, UX Design, and Critical Pedagogy into the development of media for teaching and learning.
