Meet our writers

We are an extended family and we take advantage of opportunities to work together.

  • Gary M. Stern

    +60 articles

    Gary Stern, a contributing writer for HO  has written hundreds of articles that have appeared in such leading publications as The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, USA Weekend, Crain's New York Business, Electronic Business, and Tennis. 

  • Frank DiMaria

    +60 articles

    Frank DiMaria is a freelance writer living South Carolina. When he’s not writing he teaches computer science and digital literacy in a middle school in Fort Mill.

  • Mary Ann Cooper

    +50 articles

    Whether the subject is health care or movies, women's issues or trends in television, Mary Ann has written about it or spoken about it. She is the author of more than 100 book projects including “Natural Cures for Common Diseases,” “101 Ways to Pamper Yourself,” and "Easy Ways to Lower Your Cholesterol." She was a nationally syndicated columnist for 30 years and contributing writer to an eclectic group of magazines including Hispanic Outlook, Women's World, Television Week, GRAND Magazine, Boxoffice Magazine, Looking Good Now Magazine, and American Media Special Magazines.  

  • Gustavo A. Mellander

    +50 articles

    Dr. Mellander was a university dean for 15 years and a college president for 20.

  • Peggy Sands Orchowski

    +40 articles

    Peggy (Dr. Margaret) Sands Orchowski Ph.D. has been the credentialed Congressional Correspondent for the Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education magazine in Washington DC since 2006.  Her new book “The Law That Changed the Face of America: the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965” was published by Rowman & Littlefield in September in time for the 50th anniversary of its signing.

  • Enrique Del Risco

    +40 articles

    Enrique Del Risco Arrocha, also known as Enrisco, was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1967. He has a degree in History from the University of Havana and a doctorate in Latin American Literature from New York University (NYU), where he currently works. as a teacher in the department of Spanish and Portuguese. He was a finalist for the Cintas Foundation Fellowship for Creative Writing -for the project “Trilogía cubana del Hudson” (2011), and has received the following awards: Prize of the Contest Trece de Marzo 1993, Prize of Short Story magazine “Revolución y Cultura” 1994, Villa Awards de Madrid 1996 and V Ibero-American Cortes de Cádiz Award 2008, for the works: Shrunken Works (1992), Loss and recovery of innocence (1994), Crocodile tears (1998), Leve Historia de Cuba (2007), and ¿Qué Will they think of us in Japan? (2008).

All our writers

Giselle Martinez Negrette, Ph.D.

Giselle Martinez Negrette, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Angelina Baltazar

Angelina Baltazar is a Ph.D. student in Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, studying how tomodel Alzheimer's disease pathology using electron microscopy methods. She recently graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering.  

Nicolás Kanellos, Ph.D.

Nicolás Kanellos, Ph. D., Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Studies, is the founder and emeritus director of Arte Público Press and Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage. He is a member of two national academies of the Spanish language and was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2024.

Sara McKinnon, PhD

Sara McKinnon, PhD in Communication, is the Director of Latin American, Caribbean, & Iberian Studies (LACIS) and Professor of Rhetoric, Politics & Culture, in the Department of Communication Arts at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison.

Adriana Angel, PhD

Adriana Angel, PhD in Communication Studies is the Associate Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies (LACIS) at the University of Wisconsin – Madison

Rodolfo H. Torres

Rodolfo H. Torres, Faculty Director, University of California Alianza MX; Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, and Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside. Heprovides a broad vision and executive leadership for Alianza MX, as well as campus-wide research initiatives and is responsible for inspiring and managing a diverse portfolio of research as well as economic development.

Joelle Leinbach

Joelle Leinbach is the Program Manager at Fund for Education Abroad. She studied abroad in Germany and Russia with the help of scholarship programs and is dedicated to the pursuit of making study abroad more accessible. 

Nicole Chance

Nicole Chance has worked with the Middlebury Schools Abroad since 2003. A former Peace Corps volunteer (Guinea, education) who also spent one year with her family in Florianópolis, Brazil, she knows what it means to embrace a new language and culture and appreciates being able to share these learning opportunities  with students eager to do the same.

Alonso de la Guardia and Anubis Espino

Alonso de la Guardia serves as Vice Rector for University Relations and Anubis Espino is Marketing Coordinator at FSU Rep. of Panama Campus.

Jamie Bercaw Anzano

Jamie Bercaw Anzano is director of communications and research for Project Dragonfly at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has instructed international and web-based graduate courses at Dragonfly since 2004 and has served as a graduate advisor since the master’s first graduating class in 2012. 

Krista DeAngelis

Linda Morales

Linda has worked and served in higher education as an administrator and faculty member in the areas compliance, diversity and social justice for more than twenty-five years. She currently teaches an undergraduate nutrition course called Elements of Nutrition for the University of Maryland University College, Natural Science Division, where she has been an Adjunct Associate Professor since 2009. She also works with educators, families and communities on how to reach their health goals; stress reduction, restoring their health, and bring focus, resilience and equanimity back into their lives.  

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