Speakers:
Will Freeman, Fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
Juan S. Gonzalez, Resident Fellow, Georgetown University
Carolina Jiménez Sandoval, President of The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
Moderated by Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
About the Speakers
Will Freeman is a fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His writing on the region has appeared in The New York Times, the Economist, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic, among other outlets. He holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University and was a Fulbright-Hays scholar in Colombia, Guatemala, and Peru.
Juan S. Gonzalez is a Resident Fellow at Georgetown University’s Americas Institute. He previously served in senior positions in the Obama and Biden Administration’s at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation as Senior Advisor to the CEO, at the Department of State as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, and at the White House as Special Assistant to the President and National Security Council Senior Director for the Western Hemisphere. Gonzalez has an M.A. (with distinction) from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Carolina Jiménez Sandoval is the President of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). She holds over 20 years of experience in research and advocacy for human rights in the Americas and throughout the world. Prior to WOLA, she served as Deputy Research Director for the Americas with Amnesty International in Mexico City. In her almost seven years there, she led a team of researchers documenting human rights violations and designing advocacy strategies to guarantee respect for human rights. Her work included a wide variety of themes and countries, from addressing grave crimes under international law in Venezuela and Nicaragua to promoting the rights of migrants and refugees in Central America, Mexico and the United States. She has a PhD in international studies from Waseda University, Japan, and did a postdoctoral program in human rights and ethics at the Central University of Venezuela. She holds a master’s degree in international law and Asian studies from Chuo University, Japan, and a master’s of philosophy in international relations from the University of Cambridge, England. She graduated from the Universidad Central de Venezuela with a BA in international relations. She is a national of Venezuela and Mexico.
About the Moderator
Steven Levitsky is David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government, Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. He is also a Senior Democracy Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Senior Fellow at the Kettering Foundation. His research focuses on democracy and authoritarianism, political parties, weak and informal institutions, and most recently, the crisis of democracy in the United States. He and Daniel Ziblatt are authors of How Democracies Die, which was a New York Times best-seller and was published in 30 languages, and Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point. Levitsky has written or edited 11 other books, including Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press 2003), Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (with Lucan Way) (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (with Lucan Way) (Princeton University Press, 2022). He and Lucan Way are currently writing a book on the sources of global democratic resilience in the 21st Century.
This event is presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
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