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

Melyssa Allen

Melyssa Allen is director of public relations at Meredith College, where she manages news, media relations, marketing writing, and social media functions in the Division of Marketing and Communications. She has more than two decades of experience in higher education communication.

Christine Vega

Dr. Lisa Cardoza

Dr. Lisa Cardoza proudly serves as the first Latina President of American River College, the largest college in the Los Rios Community College District. She previously acted as Vice President for University Advancement at Sacramento State, and now serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committees of various community organizations that focus on empowering Sacramento’s next generation of leaders. Lisa earned her BA in Economics and an MA in Social Sciences of Education from Stanford University and her doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.   

Richard Bueno Hudson, Ph. D.

Richard Bueno Hudson, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Instituto Cervantes. https://www.cervantes.es/sobre_instituto_cervantes/cv_richard_bueno_hudson.htm

Rocque Perez

Rocque Perez is a proud ‘first-gen’ from Southern Arizona. He is a communications manager in the Office of the Provost at Arizona State University, where he is responsible for positioning ASU’s designation as a Hispanic Serving Institution. He is also charged with an enterprise-wide ecosystem that supports practices and philosophies that generate greater outcomes of representation, a sense of belonging and success.

Rafael C. Castillo, Ph.D.

Rafael C. Castillo, Ph.D., a professor of English and Humanities at Palo Alto College, is the author of Dostoevsky on Guadalupe Street (Peter Lang International), Aurora (Floricanto Press), Distant Journeys (Bilingual Review Press) and scholarly articles in Oxford Bibliographies, English Journal, Arizona Quarterly, Frank (Paris), New Mexico Humanities Review, CC-Humanities Review with fiction anthologized in Lone Star Literature (Norton), Under the Pomegranate Tree (Washington Square Press) and New Growth (Corona Press). He is the former editor of ViAztlan: International Journal of Arts and Ideas and serves as Co-Editor of CTN: A Journal of Pedagogy and Creativity (New Haven, CT), the official journal of Catch the Next, Inc. (a college-readiness program).        

Marcela G. Cuellar, PhD

Marcela G. Cuellar, PhD, is an associate professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis. Her research examines postsecondary equity with a focus on Latinx/a/o student experiences and outcomes at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and emerging HSIs.

Lucy Arellano Jr., Ph.D.

Lucy Arellano Jr., Ph.D., is an associate professor of higher education in the Gevirtz School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on persistence, retention, and degree completion of emerging majority students.  

Dr. Katia Paz Goldfarb

Dr. Katia Paz Goldfarb, inaugural Associate Provost for Hispanic Initiatives and International Programs Montclair State University. Professor/Founding Chair Family Science & Human Development. Fellow-NCFR. Fellow Academia de Liderazgo-HACU. Research: immigrant/transnational families, family sustainability, and HSIs. PI, NSF B&B Conference: The Long-Term Impact of COVID 19 on Latino Communities-Tri-State Area. Media: Univision/Telemundo/ABC/NBC/CBS News.  

Alejandro Figliolo

Alejandro Figliolo es bailarín de tango, coreógrafo e instructor. Es también presidente de la “Fundación Cultura y Arte Popular.” Realizó sus estudios en la Universidad del Tango, ahora CETBA, en Buenos aires. Actuó en los teatros de Avenida Corrientes en Buenos Aires y recorrió el mundo con diferentes compañías de tango. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alejandro.figlio YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoBuio7OFsdrJqHNWCe7p6w IG: c.a.p.fundacion

Lourdes Dávila

Lourdes Dávila is from San Juan, Puerto Rico. A professional dancer for 25 years, her academic writing focuses on the intersection of photography, dance/movement and writing in Latin America. She has published on Julio Cortázar, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Eduardo Lalo, José Luis González, Martha Graham and Marie Bardet. She is the founder and managing director of the journal Esferas, which provides a shared space for the production of art and knowledge for artists, critics, undergraduates and graduate students. Fully dedicated to the teaching and advisement of students, Lourdes has twice won the CAS Golden Dozen Teaching Award and received the NYU Distinguished Teaching Award in the spring of 2019.

Brandy Piña-Watson

Brandy Piña-Wilson is the Associate Director of Women’s & Gender Studies and Associate Professor in Psychological Sciences at Texas Tech University. Dr. Piña-Watson directs the Latinx Mental Health & Resiliency lab at Texas Tech and has been the recipient of several awards including Hispanic Association of Women’s Hispana Inspiradora Award and the Distinguished Early Career Award from the National Latinx Psychological Association.

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