Gabrielle Etcheverry

(Chile/Canadá, 1946)

Gabrielle Etcheverry, PhD, serves as Deputy Executive Director of Livres Canada Books, a not-for-profit organization with a mandate to support Canadian-owned book publishers in their export sales activities and in developing international partnerships. An experienced international communications and outreach professional, she holds over a decade of expertise in various fields of communications and in engaging diverse stakeholder communities and audiences. Gabrielle has previously taught university courses on Canadian and Latin American cultures and communications and has also worked as a Spanish-English translator and editor. 

Pilar Londoño

(Colombia, 1979)

Colombian editor born in Bogotá. Social communicator and editor from the Javeriana University with studies in Art History at the Sorbonne University. She has been linked to both the public and private sectors, and has more than two decades of experience as a literature editor in prominent publishing houses in the country and abroad. She has translated some universal classics from English and French, and has been a jury member for numerous awards and works of literary creation. She is currently the Cultural Director of the Bogotá International Book Fair, FILBo.

Claudia Neira Bermúdez

(Nicaragua) She has been the director of the Centroamérica Cuenta Festival since 2015, where she also coordinates content curation. She combines her cultural management work with her experience in strategic communication and public relations.

Previously, she worked as an editor in media outlets in Nicaragua and as a communication expert in the United States and Nicaragua, where she founded Crea Comunicaciones in 2005. She has a Master's in Strategic Communication and Public Relations from Marshall University in West Virginia, United States. She is a fellow of the fifth class of the Central American Leadership Initiative (CALI), affiliated with the Aspen Institute. She has been a mentor with Vital Voices and has participated in various cultural, business, and leadership initiatives in Central America.

She is a Nicaraguan born in Brazil of a Peruvian father and Nicaraguan mother. She has lived in Madrid since 2022.

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The need to "lose one's way." Madness and creativity
Latin America Viva

Ingrid Bejerman

Journalist, teacher and cultural manager, specialist in reporting on Latin American issues and the teaching and institutionalization of journalism. She worked as a journalist and columnist for the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo; as program coordinator for the Foundation for New Ibero-American Journalism (FNPI) in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, and as director of the Julio Cortázar Latin American Chair, at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Since 2002 she has been part of the programming committee of Blue Metropolis, the International Literary Festival of Montreal, where she is in charge of curating events in Spanish and Portuguese. She has a PhD in communication studies from McGill and teaches research, theory and journalistic practice at Concordia, both universities in Montreal, Canada.

Natasha Kanapé Fontaine

Natasha is an Innu writer, poet and interdisciplinary artist from Pessamit, on the Nitassinan (North Shore, Quebec). She lives in Tio’tia:ke, known as Montreal. Her critically acclaimed poetry and essays are widely taught and have been translated into several languages. In 2017, she received the Rights and Freedoms Award for her poetry and contribution to bringing people closer through art, writing, performance, dialogue, respect, and cultural exchange. In 2021, she received the Chevalier de l’Ordre des arts et des lettres de la République française. She also works as a translator, screenwriter, sensitivity reader, and consultant on Indigenous literature.