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

Irene I. Vega

Matt Frey

Matt Frey is the Director of Media Relations at Mount Saint Mary College and has worked at the institution for 12 years. He is a proud alumnus of the Mount as well, for both his undergraduate and graduate degrees.

JoAnn Trejo

JoAnn Trejo, PhD, MBA, is a professor and senior assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences Faculty Affairs at UC San Diego. She leads several NIH-funded programs and is a highly  recognized leader for her work embracing mentorship and effective strategies to enhance faculty career development and inclusive excellence. She was elected as Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology, and included among the 100 Inspiring Hispanic / Latinx Scientists in America and in the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Trejo is a first-generation Mexican American scientist who received her PhD and MBA at UC San Diego and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at UC San Francisco.  

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.   

Kathleen Brunet

Kathleen Brunet

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.   

Lourdes Bustos

Lourdes Bustos

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.

Taiese Bingham-Hickman

Dr. Taiese Bingham-Hickman, M.S., M.B.A., Ph.D., is The Executive Director of The Leadership Alliance and an alumna of the Summer Research Early Identification Program (SR-EIP). After participating in the SR-EIP, she earned both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University and completed her M.B.A at Northeastern University.  

Carmen Graciela Díaz

Carmen Graciela Díaz is a Puerto Rican journalist with more than 15 years of experience in writing and publishing in Spanish and English. With a decade of teaching experience, she is the Director of the Bilingual Journalism Program at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Carmen Graciela is the author of “Huele a Bomba: la paradójica esencia del periodismo de Avance,” and she’s currently working on her second book to be published soon.   

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

Felida Villarreal

Felida Villarreal serves as President & CEO of VIDA, where she leads workforce development initiatives serving South Texas. Recently named to Hispanic Executive’s “30 under 30” list, she is a licensed CPA and is committed to creating economic mobility pathways through education and comprehensive support services.

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