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

Curtis L. Garcia, Ph.D

Curtis L. Garcia, Ph.D., is a Professor and Director of the School of Education. Dr. Garcia joined the faculty of Adams State in 2014 and has served as project director a number of federal and state grants - totaling more than $7M focused on teacher recruitment, retention and quality. He also founded Project SERVE, a program aimed at supporting early recruitment of diverse educators in southern Colorado. Dr. Garcia’s research focuses on teacher mentoring and evaluation, issues in rural education, and issues related to multicultural education and equity in schools.   

Dr. Michael J. McDonough

Dr. Michael J. McDonough has served as president of Raritan Valley Community College since 2014. He previously served as provost and vice president of academic services at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY; as dean of Liberal Arts at Monroe Community College; and as the Fred H. Gertz Professor of English at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. 

Jason Kornwitz

Jason Kornwitz is the senior writer and editor for the Boston College School of Social Work. He studied journalism and philosophy at Northeastern University.

Shaylee Gibbs

Shaylee Gibbs is the PR Communications Specialist at Friends University, where she crafts and shares the university’s voice across various platforms. Her favorite aspect of her role is building connections with alumni and current students and highlighting their achievements, aspirations, and milestones.

Latino Media Collaborative staff

Latino Media Collaborative staff  

Giselle Martinez Negrette

Giselle Martinez Negrette is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She holds an M.A. in Education with a concentration in Bilingual Education & TESOL from New Mexico State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research interests center on issues of language, equity, and social justice.  

Duggan Flanakin

Duggan Flanakin  

R. Lennon Audrain

R. Lennon Audrain, PhD, is a researcher at Arizona State University and the executive board president of the National Association of Community College Teacher Education Programs.  

Arturo Cázares

Arturo Cázares is the CEO of LBAN, a Silicon Valley-based non-profit that partners with Stanford to empower Latino entrepreneurship across the U.S. With his leadership, LBAN has become a thought leader in Latino entrepreneurship. Before LBAN, Cázares was a C-level executive with extensive experience scaling businesses, from building and leading teams at start-ups to leading multi-billion-dollar revenue organizations with thousands of employees worldwide. He has an Electrical Engineering degree from Stanford and an MBA from the Stanford GSB.

Caleb González, PhD

Caleb González is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley. His research focuses on first-year writing programs at Hispanic-Serving Institutions and emerging Hispanic-Serving Institutions.  

Lucila Lagace

Research Manager Lucila Lagace leads research administration and program evaluation at NALAC. She is an experienced nonprofit and public administrator with thirty-five years of experience building the evaluation capacity of organizations across the U.S. and Central America.

Idalia Nuñez

Idalia Nuñez is an Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy with an emphasis on bilingualism and bilingual education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research is focused on linguistic equity in bilingual classrooms serving students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Her work looks closely at Latinx bilingual students’ everyday language practices, experiences in and out of school spaces, and agency.    

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