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.

  • Gustavo A. Mellander

    +50 articles

    Dr. Mellander was a university dean for 15 years and a college president for 20.

  • 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.  

  • 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

Dr. Mary Jo Parker

Dr. Mary Jo Parker is faculty in the Natural Sciences department at the University of Houston-Downtown and Executive Director - Scholars Academy, a unit in the College of Sciences & Technology that supports STEM majors through scholarships, a mentoring system, broadening experiences, and professional assimilation experiences. She brings experience in curriculum development, leadership at K-12 to higher education, and online instruction.   

Felicia Castro-Villarreal

Dr. Felicia Castro-Villarreal is a Professor and Program Director for the Masters in School Psychology program at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research focuses on culturally responsive practices and consultation. She is a Co-PI on several federally funded projects designed to fund graduate student training and address workforce shortages.   

Rosalinda Godinez, Ph.D.

Dr. Godinez is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Cleveland State University in the Center for Urban Education. She received her Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Studies at the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley. As an educational ethnographer, her research is deeply rooted in social justice orientations, lived experiences, and her desire to establish collaborative partnerships that honor people’s everyday lives and education practices of community, movement, and imagination.

Lourdes Bustos

Lourdes Bustos

Kathleen Brunet

Kathleen Brunet

Monica Gonzalez Ybarra

Dr. González Ybarra is an Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy and Latina/Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research examines the language, literacies, and knowledge production of Latinx youth and educators as they are situated within sociopolitical contexts. She focuses on how these practices intersect with social constructions of race, gender, class, sexuality, and citizenship status.   

Adriana Angel, PhD

Adriana Angel, PhD in Communication Studies is the Associate Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies (LACIS) at the University of Wisconsin – Madison

Teresita Paniagua

Tere Paniagua is Executive Director of the Office of Cultural Engagement for the Hispanic Community at Syracuse University, where she leads La Casita Cultural Center and Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact, two university-sponsored arts and cultural centers. With more than two decades of experience in nonprofit and university leadership, she develops programs that connect higher education, the arts, and community engagement. Paniagua is committed to fostering cross-cultural dialogue, experiential learning, and community partnerships that amplify Latino voices in Central New York. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of WCNY/PBS.

Maria Juarez

Maria Juarez, the Youth Organizing Director for Levante Leadership Institute at Student Action with Farmworkers- is of Mexican descent and comes from a farm-working background. Originally from Idaho, she earned a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Idaho. With a family working in agriculture, she has been a part of SAF since her participation as a summer intern in the Into The Fields program in 2021

Maribel Joven, M.Ed, M.A.

Maribel Joven is a first-generation student, born in New York City and raised in Newark, NJ. Her mother is from Ecuador, and her father is from Spain. She is an experienced educator and Vice Principal at McManus Middle School in Linden, NJ. With over 15 years of expertise in bilingual education and instructional leadership, she is currently pursuing an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership with a concentration in Higher Education at Saint Peter’s University.

Erin Geisler

Kevin Jimenez

Kevin Jimenez  

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