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

Audrey Baca Lopez, Ed.D.

Dr. Audrey Baca Lopez (she/her) is a first-generation, Latina-mama-scholar, and tenured professor at Mt. San Jacinto College. She creates academic counter-spaces using anti-racist and culturally relevant practices in transfer level English courses to expose the hidden curriculum of academia.

Alicia Chavira Medina, B.A.

Alicia Chavira Medina (she/ her) is a current first-generation Latinx graduate student who works for the PALS program at Mt. San Jacinto College. She advocates for students’ needs, providing an academic counter-space for MSJC’s diverse student population.

Jamie Merisotis

Jamie Merisotis, an internationally recognized leader in higher education, human work, philanthropy, and public policy, has been Lumina Foundation’s president and CEO since 2008. He previously co-founded the Institute for Higher Education Policy. He is a Forbes contributor and authored two books, America Needs Talent and Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines.  

Dr. Karen A. Stout

Dr. Karen A. Stout has been president and CEO of Achieving the Dream since 2015. She is president emerita of Montgomery County Community College (PA).

Luis Santos-Rivas

Luis Santos-Rivas is director of the Latino Resource Center at NIU, where he leads initiatives focused on student belonging, retention and leadership development. With more than a decade of experience in higher education, he advocates for equitable access and culturally responsive support for Latinx and first-generation college students.  

SWE Staff

The Society of Women Engineers supports Latinas in STEM through its Latinos Affinity Group and broader initiatives offering mentorship, leadership development, research, and educational resources. These efforts foster community, promote inclusion, and strengthen academic persistence and career advancement for women in engineering.

Alonso de la Guardia and Anubis Espino

Alonso de la Guardia serves as Vice Rector for University Relations and Anubis Espino is Marketing Coordinator at FSU Rep. of Panama Campus.

Joelle Leinbach

Joelle Leinbach is the Program Manager at Fund for Education Abroad. She studied abroad in Germany and Russia with the help of scholarship programs and is dedicated to the pursuit of making study abroad more accessible. 

Nicole Chance

Nicole Chance has worked with the Middlebury Schools Abroad since 2003. A former Peace Corps volunteer (Guinea, education) who also spent one year with her family in Florianópolis, Brazil, she knows what it means to embrace a new language and culture and appreciates being able to share these learning opportunities  with students eager to do the same.

Tracy Bicknell-Homes

Tracy Bickwell-Holmes is a library professor, at Boise State University.

Jamie Bercaw Anzano

Jamie Bercaw Anzano is director of communications and research for Project Dragonfly at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has instructed international and web-based graduate courses at Dragonfly since 2004 and has served as a graduate advisor since the master’s first graduating class in 2012. 

Dr. Patricia Arredondo

Dr. Patricia Arredondo believes in the power of transformative change and has been committed to supporting women’s empowerment and leadership opportunities throughout her long career as an academic administrator, researcher, and consultant Early in her career as a licensed psychologist, she worked exclusively with professional women and graduate students. She identified barriers to women’s confidence, relationship management, and career advancement based on gender socialization and structural barriers in the workplace. Since then, she has disseminated thought leadership on Mujerista principles and practices, inclusive leadership and other related issues.  Dr. Arredondo is currently president of the Arredondo Advisory Group and past Chair of the AAHHE Board of Directors. She resides in Phoenix and Mexico City.  

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