Dean of the Faculty of Economic at the University of Havana, Cuba
Senior Lecturer of Economic & Social History at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Her teaching focuses on Latin American and Cuban development. Since 1995, she has spent time living and researching in Cuba. Helen Yaffe is author of "Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and "We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World" (Yale University Press, 2020).
Vice President of Global Health Partners. He has more than 35 years of experience building support for Central American economic and social development programs, primarily in the area of public health. Advisory Board member of ACERE- Alliance for Cuba Engagement and Respect.
Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific Southern California Region, Marine Division ILWU who recently travelled to Cuba.
A Cuba and Black Studies specialist at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Dalhousie's Black and African Diaspora Studies program, the first and, to date, the only one of its kind in Canada. He is author of “Cuba: A Revolution in Motion” (Zed Books 2004) and “Cuba, Africa and Apartheid's End- Africa’s Children Return!” (Lexington Books 2023).
Coordinator of Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC), founding organizer with the US-Cuba Normalization Conference Coalition, and author of “5 Decades of the Cuban Revolution: The Challenges of an Unwavering Leadership” (Battle of Ideas Press, 2010). Tamara has travelled to Cuba over 15 times since 2005 and is on the coordination team of the Calixto Garcia Brigade.
Organizer with New York / New Jersey Cuba Si Coalition. An independent curator and arts activist from Brooklyn, New York with Afro Caribbean Roots in Cuba and Puerto Rico. She is simply known as “Tee” in her beloved Communities. Tee is what happens when a human loves art, the earth and justice. She is a proud Afro Puerto Rican working diligently on the global liberation of her people across the diaspora through Socially- engaged art. Tee curates exhibits that contextualize the intersections of diasporan arts across a socio-political landscape. Tee believes in the power of collectivity by responsibly fostering critical art practice within a local and global context.
