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2021 EN VOZ ALTA PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS
Mentors
Liudmila Batista
U.S. Department of Justice
Trial Attorney, Office of International Affairs (Criminal Div.)
Natalia Cote Muñoz
U.S. Department of State
Policy Planning Staff
Missy Reif
National Democratic Institute
Program Officer
Laicie Heeley
Inkstick
Founder, Editor, & CEO
Juliana Urrego
Program Assistant
John Pope
ReThink Media
Senior Communications Associate
Mariana Sánchez Ramírez
(Former) The Wilson Center
Program Coordinator/ Communications Analyst
Emma Bates
CSIS
Research Assoicate
Laura Rivas
Reconnecting Asia
Program Researcher
Derek Johnson
Global Zero
Chief Executive Officer
Patricia de Jesus
Civil Service (Personal Capacity)
Sara Z. Kutchesfahani, PhD
DC Hub at N Square Collaborative
Director
Paloma Gonzales
Foreign Affairs Officer
Nury Gambarrotti
U.S. Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations Legislative & Policy Analyst
Adina Pintilie
Ridgeway Information (UK)
Researcher
Sofia Lalinde
The Dialogue
Program Associate, Special
Projects & External Relations
Maggie Angel
Foreign Policy Legislative Aide
Maria Antonia Montes
U.S. Institute of Peace
Eugenia Lostri
Research Associate, Strategic Technologies Program
Marion Messmer
BASIC
Co-Director
Cecili Thompson Williams
Beyond the Bomb
Executive Director
Isabel Romero
Security Program Manager
Maria Selde
Guidehouse
Monitoring And Evaluation Consultant, National Security
Francisco Bencosme
Senior Advisor to the Acting Assistant Secretary at the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau
Mentees
Angie Chermanz Monroy
Georgetown University
Graduate Student
Ariqa Herrera
Johns Hopkins, SAIS
Ashley Justynski
Texas A&M, Bush School
Carolina Andrada
Christina Manzanares
George Washington University
Recent Graduate School Graduate
Deisy Gomez
San Francisco State University
Undergraduate
Elizabeth Preciado
Loyola University
Eva Colon
Syracuse University
Fatima Rahman
Case Western Reserve University
Undergraduate Student
Genesis Romero
Isabel Martinez
Catholic University of America
Recent Graduate
Julianna Morales
Madeline Molina
Washington University in St. Louis
Maria Isabel L. G. Sonet
University of Notre Dame
Michel Ruiz-Fuentes
Smith College
Nicole Duque
Perla Echeverria
San Diego State University
Ruth Diaz
Rice University
Sabine Truyol
Samantha Aruiza
U.C. Santa Barbara
Sol Halle
University of Arkansas
Sophia Fernandez
Valerrie Craig
Valery Valdez Pinto
American University
Elena Johnson Lafferty
University of Oregon
Take a look back at the 2020 and 2019 cohorts.