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

    +50 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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

All our writers

Serafín M. Coronel-Molina

Serafín M. Coronel-Molina is a Full Professor of Literacy, Culture, and Language Education at Indiana University, Director of CLACS, and Head Coordinator of the Global Indigenous Studies Network within the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University.   

The Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies staff

 The Roger Thayer Stone  Center for Latin American Studies staff

Dr. Christina Abreu

Christina D. Abreu is an associate professor of history and director of the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies at Northern Illinois University. She published Rhythms of Race: Cuban Musicians and the Making of Latino New York City and Miami, 1940-1960, in 2015 with the University of North Carolina Press.    

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.  

Lidia V. Tuttle

Lidia V. Tuttle, Ed.D., is deputy director of the School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University.

Mark B. Rosenberg

Dr. Rosenberg has served as the fifth president of FIU since August 2009. A political scientist specializing in Latin America, Dr. Rosenberg is the first FIU faculty member to ascend to the university’s presidency. Under his leadership as president, FIU has increased enrollment to almost 56,000 students, improved graduation rates by nearly 13% and hired over 500 new faculty. Dr. Rosenberg’s academic career began at FIU in 1976 as an assistant professor of political science. In 1979, he founded the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center, which today is one of the nation’s premier federally-supported research and teaching centers focusing on the region. 

Marilyn Gilroy

Mark Blankenship

Melissa Campbell

Mitchell A. Kaplan

Mitchell A. Kaplan, PhD. CPSP is a program evaluation and grant writing consultant in private practice in New York City. He is a professional writer and researcher. Dr. Kaplan received his PhD in sociology from the City University of New York’s Graduate School and University Center in Brooklyn. He received his master’s degree in sociology from the New School for Social Research.   

MIchelle Perales

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