The WCAPS Latin America Working Group & the Center for Democracy in the Americas invite you to a panel analyzing the factors which affected the Cuban American vote in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, grounded in a historical discussion of the Cuban American community's voting patterns.

Panelists:
Ariana Hernandez-Reguant is a Visiting Research Assistant Professor at the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute at Tulane University. She’s a cultural anthropologist studying the public expression of social and political ideologies, including ideologies of race, within institutions and social contexts of interpretation. At present, she is conducting new research on citizenship and notions of freedom in Hialeah, FL.

Lizabelt Avila grew up in Cuba and currently works with the development team of the Washington Office on Latin America. Prior to that, she worked with The Nature Conservancy as a Princeton in Latin America Fellow, volunteered for UnidosNow, and interned for the U.S. Department of State. She graduated from New College of Florida, double majoring in International and Area Studies and Political Science. She also studied international human rights law in The Hague and is a Rangel Scholar.

Sabrina Rodriguez is a politics reporter at POLITICO, where she focuses on 2020, Latino voters and state legislative races. Leading up to the 2020 election, Sabrina was based in Miami — more specifically, her hometown of Hialeah — to follow the race in Florida. Sabrina previously worked as a reporter covering trade policy. She also has worked at Chalkbeat New York, Miami New Times and The Miami Herald. Sabrina covered the first months of the Trump administration at Diario Perfil in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She’s Cuban-American and a Northwestern University grad.

Moderator:
Laura Muñoz is CDA’s 2020 Stephen Rivers Fellow. She graduated from Brown University in May with a degree in History and Latin American & Caribbean Studies.