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

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

Paul Dosal

Paul Hoogeveen

Philip Babcock and Mindy Marks

Philip Babcock (babcock@econ.ucsb.edu) is an assistant professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Mindy Marks (mindy.marks@ucr.edu) is an assistant professor at the University of California-Riverside.

Ricardo B. Jacquez

After spending 34 years on the campus of New Mexico State University as a faculty member, and then dean of the school’s College of Engineering Ricardo Jacquez retired in 2015. He had been dean of the College of Engineering for the past five years. In his career, Jacquez has served as a principal investigator on more than 30 grants totaling about $40 million. Jacquez is the founding director of the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation and the New Mexico AMP Bridge to the Doctorate program.   

Robert D. Meckel

Journalist Robert Meckel was born in Mission, Texas, son of a first-generation Mexican Texan mother and a father of German ancestry. Meckel discovered his interest in writing and journalism during high school, and went on to study first at Pan American College in Edinburg, Texas, and then to The University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a journalism degree. Meckel’s early career included photojournalism assignments and coverage of the civil rights movement in South Texas. After working at the Corsicana Daily Sun in the early 1970s, he joined the Houston Post, where he worked until the newspaper’s shut down in 1995. That same year he joined the University of Texas at Austin Office of Public Affairs, later known as University Communications. Source: “Robert Meckel Papers Contribute rich Trove of Mexican American-themed journalism to Benson”, Benson Latin American Collection (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/benson/announcements/robert-meckel-papers-contribute-rich-trove-mexican-american-themed-journalism), accessed October 22, 2015.

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