Patricia Prospero is a seasoned senior HR executive with extensive experience across Latin America. Known for building high-performing teams and aligning HR practices with business goals to accelerate growth and innovation. Patricia is the current HR VP for Diageo, Latin America & Caribbean (LAC) since July 2022. In this role, Patricia leads the Human Resources for the region, driving strategic people initiatives and organizational transformation. Patricia is also part of the global Diageo HR Leadership Team.

Roberta Braga is founder and executive director of the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA), a non-partisan nonprofit dedicated to strengthening a healthier Internet for Latinos in the U.S. and Latin America.

Ariel Diaz is the vice president of Legal and Regulatory Affairs for the FedEx Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, headquartered in Miami, Florida. Mr. Diaz is an attorney with over 20 years of experience in the transportation and logistics industry and has worked most of his career on legal and regulatory matters involving the LAC region. In addition to his role in Legal and Regulatory Affairs, Mr. Diaz also has responsibility over Compliance and Government Affairs for the FedEx LAC region.

Renata B. Vasconcellos is an accomplished executive with extensive experience in international trade and public policy. She is the head of LATAM government affairs at RELX. She served as executive director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Americas, where she led U.S.-Brazil and U.S.-Cuba advocacy plans, represented the LATAM team on digital policy issues, and advised on Brazil’s public policy issues related to defense, energy, technology and trade.

Aimé Iglesias Lukin is the director and chief curator of Art at Americas Society in New York. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, she has lived in New York since 2011. Since joining the organization in 2019, she has led a program of exhibitions, publications, and programs aiming to rethink the Americas beyond political cartographies and to highlight the value of the local among the global. Her two-part exhibition and book This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York 1965–1975, was based on her Ph.D. dissertation at Rutgers University.

Dr. Manuela Well-Off-Man is an art historian and chief curator at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. She previously served as curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Ark. She has more than 20 years of curatorial experience in museums. She has curated many exhibitions on contemporary Indigenous and American art, including national and international traveling contemporary Native American art exhibitions. Well-Off-Man received her Ph.D. in art history from the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, and earned her M.A.

Rachel Vorsanger is pursuing her PhD in Art History at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. Her research examines the role of gender and displacement in modern art from the United States and Europe from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Her current projects examine Madrid, Barcelona, New York City, and Mexico City as sites of international art making.

Delia Solomons is an associate professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Drexel University. Her book Cold War in the White Cube: U.S. Exhibitions of Latin American Art, 1959–1968 (Penn State University Press, 2023) chronicled a boom of U.S. exhibitions that sought to codify “Latin American art” amid intensifying inter-American frictions after the Cuban Revolution.

Mary-Kate O'Hare is the Susan E. Lynch executive director and CEO of the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. She brings over 25 years of experience in art leadership, previously as Head of Art Advisory and Director at Citi Private Bank, where she led global specialists that guide clients in building and managing museum-quality art collections. Prior to Citi, O'Hare spent 13 years at the Newark Museum, where she served as Curator of American Art and Department Head.