Can talk about Cuban Adjustment Act and Cuban migration to the United States. Immigration Policy, History of Presidency/Campaigns, Middle Eastern Politics (speaks German, Hebrew, some French)

Can speak about Cuban economy and its impact on society. Expert on International Business

Can speak about Latin America, Central America, drug trafficking and conflict in the region. Dr. Bagley can also speak about Bitcoin and international relationships and the implications for them if a “global currency” were to take hold.

Cuban migration. Hispanic populations in the U.S. World population problems, migration, ethnicity, housing segregation and discrimination, and poverty. Immigration Policy and Hispanic Voters

Dr. Andy S. Gomez is a retired academic and administrator from the University of Miami. Dr. Gomez is an academic scholar in Cuban studies. He served as a Senior Fellow at the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. His research agenda focused on the ideological and psychological reconstruction of human values and […]

Dr. Green can talk about the Jewish population of Cuba and the Cuban Jewish population in the United States, especially in South Florida. Department Bio / CV

Can discuss what’s on the minds of Cuban-Americans right now, including those who may be considering a return to Cuba to help with reconstruction. Can also discuss Cuban prisons, the subject of two of his documentaries, El Presidio – The Trip Back, and Plantados.

Economics in Cuba

Professor, Department of Religious Studies College of Arts and Sciences Dr. Maldonado is an expert on Catholicism, Cuban-American and Cuban religion, Afro-Cuban culture and religion, and more broadly Latino/a, Black, Latin American religion, and feminism. Watch Dr. Maldonado and UM Student Government President Nawara Alawa speak to Channel 7′s Belkys Nery about what it was like to […]

Founding member of ENCASA – Emergency Network of Cuban American Scholars and Artists for Change in US-Cuba Policy . She can talk about Cubans on the island since she travels to Cuba frequently, on Cuban culture, U.S.-Cuba relations, civil society in Cuba, travel restrictions and human rights.

Dr. Susan Kaufman Purcell is the Director of the Center for Hemispheric Policy at the University of Miami. Dr. Purcell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Women’s Forum. She has been an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Visiting Fellow at the Overseas Development Council, and […]

Pedro Roig, Esq. is Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies.  Dr. Roig has taught Cuban history courses at various institutions.  Former director of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) – Radio & TV Marti.  He holds a Masters of Arts degree from University of Miami and a Juris Doctor Degree […]

Dr. Roy can speak on the European Union, its economy and political alliances as well as the relationship between Syrian and the EU.  He is also available for Spanish-language media. Department Bio/CV   

Dr. Solo-Gabriele is the associate dean for research at the College of Engineering. She has extensive experience in an array of areas, including microbes in ocean water and beach sand, water flows within the Everglades watershed, and metals in pressure treated wood. She is an expert on the infrastructure of Cuba, specifically water and wastewater systems. She […]

Dr. Suchlicki can address issues related to contemporary Cuba, U.S.-Cuban Relations, transition issues and Cuban Jews. He is the Emilio Bacardi Moreau professor of History and Director of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and specializes in Latin American affairs, with special emphasis on Cuba, Mexico, and U.S. relations with the region. He has published […]