Latinos For Internet Freedom Source List

Malkia Cyril, Executive Director, Center for Media Justice

Malkia is founder of the Center for Media Justice. Malkia is the recipient of
the Media Leader award from the Alliance for Community Media, the
Emerging Leader award from the Media That Matters Film Festival, and
other awards from the Media Justice Fund, Rock the Vote, and others.
Malkia has appeared on or in Democracy Now, Hard Knock Radio,
Breakdown FM, Free Speech TV, the documentary Outfoxed, the
documentary Broadcast Blues, the SF Weekly, the San Francisco Bay
Guardian, the New York Times, the Village Voice, and others.
Contact: malkia@centerformediajustice.org

Erubiel Valladares Carranza II

Erubiel works for PCUN, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste, also known as Northwest
Treeplanters and Farmworkers United.
Contact: eruradio@pcun.org

Amalia Deloney, Coordinator, Media Action Grassroots Network

Amalia Deloney is a Guatemala-born activist, cultural worker and former Senior
Fellow with the Main Street Project. Amalia earned her B.A. in Urban Studies and
History from Macalester College and her Juris Doctorate with a focus on Social
Justice from Hamline University School of Law. Her areas of specialization include
community organizing and education, cultural rights, non-partisan political
participation, and media justice.
Contact: amalia@centerformediajustice.org

Jessica Gonzalez, Policy Counsel, National Hispanic Media Coalition

Jessica is NHMC's DC-based Policy Counsel. Jessica executues NHMC’s federal
policy priorities before the federal agencies and in Congress. Before joining
NHMC, Jessica was a staff attorney and clinical teaching fellow at Georgetown Law’s
Institute for Public Representation (IPR. At IPR Jessica also represented
other consumer, civil rights and public interest organizations before the Federal
Communications Commission, the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration and in the Courts of Appeal. Jessica is a LLM degree candidate at
Georgetown Law. She earned her JD at Southwestern Law School, where she worked
on the Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas and the Journal of International
Media and Entertainment Law, and her BA from Loyola Marymount University.
Contact: jgonzalez@nhmc.org

Roberto Lovato, Presente.org (Available for Spanish Language Press)

Roberto is a New York-based writer with New America Media and a frequent
contributor to The Nation Magazine. He's also written for the Los Angeles Times,
Salon, Der Spiegel, Utne Magazine, La Opinion, and other national and
international media outlets. Contact: Prior to becoming a writer, Lovato was the
former Executive Director of CARECEN, which was the largest immigrant rights
organization in the country. You can find him posting regularly on media,
migration, politics and other issues at his blog, www.ofamerica.wordpress.com.
Contact: robvato@gmail.com

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George Lujan, Communications Organizer, SouthWest Organizing Project
George joined the staff as Communications Organizer in 2009, after being a life-
long member of SWOP. He worked on Community Garden and Youth projects, as
well as contributing artwork for Voces Unidas magazine. He studied Media Arts at
the Universidad de Nuevo Mexico and now works on promoting SWOP's media
presence. In his free time he enjoys walking his dog along the bosque and watching
samurai movies.
Contact: george@swop.net

Steven Renderos, Media Justice Organizer, Mainstreet Project

(Available for Spanish Language Press)
Steven leads Main Street Project's media justice and community building efforts,
including the Justice 2.0 training project and our collaborative work with the
nationwide Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net).
Contact: steven@mainstreetproject.org

Iván Román, Executive Director, National Association of Hispanic Journalists

Iván joined the National Association of Hispanic Journalists as executive director in

September 2003 after working as a professional journalist for nearly two decades.
From the 2,000-member association’s offices in Washington, D.C., Román oversees
its many educational and professional development programs, and its growing
advocacy efforts aimed at getting more Latinos into newsrooms across the country
and fighting for more fair and balanced coverage of the nation’s Latinos.
Contact: iroman@nahj.org

Graciela I. Sánchez, Director (Available for Spanish Language Press)

As executive director of the 21-year-old Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, Sanchez uses
art as a form of social justice. By providing some of San Antonio’s poorest residents with
access to films, music, photography and architecture, the Esperanza helps people embrace
their history and culture and feel pride in their heritage.
Contact: graciela@esperanzacenter.org

Andrea Isabel Quijada, Executive Director of the Media Literacy Project

Andrea delivers media literacy presentations and trainings -- in New Mexico, across the
USA and internationally -- at professional and student conferences, at community
forums, on college campuses, and in middle schools and high schools. She leads
workshops for students, teachers, media activists, community organizers and health
professionals. Contact: andrea@medialiteracyproject.org

Kirk Whisler
Kirk Whisler is the president of Western Publication Research, Inc., a
corporation that includes Latino Print Network, WPR Publishing, and Western
Publication Research. He also serves as publisher and executive editor for the
Hispanic Marketing 101 newsletter and podcast, and has authored or edited over
20 books on Hispanic marketing. He is a founding member of the National
Association of Hispanic Journalists.

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