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Jay Mallin (b. 1927) is a journalist who has covered Cuban events and politics since the 1950s, as well as Nicaragua, Angola, and Grenada, where Fidel Castro was also involved in conflicts.

Mallin was born in New York City to American parents but was raised in Havana, Cuba. He received an A.B. in journalism from Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida in 1949. After graduation he began working at the English-language Havana Herald, and in 1956, he began working full-time at Timewhere he covered events during the Castro-led Cuban Revolution. During Mallin's career as a journalist, he contributed to many publications, such as New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Miami News, Wall Street Journal, and others. Mallin also contributed his knowledge as journalist and political correspondent as a research scientist at the University of Miami's Center for Advanced Studies, where he edited several books. During the 1980s, Mallin was the News Director at Radio Martí in Washington, D.C.

The Kouri family was a prominent Cuban family, both before and after the revolution. In 1961, Castro Foreign Minister Raul Roa's sister-in-law, Sarita Kouri, at the time serving with the Cuban Organization of American States delegation in Washington D.C., defected and became a leading anti-Castro activist.

Sina Sutter (b.1951) is an Orlando based Cuban-American visual artist and educator originally from Matanzas, Cuba. Her works, many of them landscapes and composites, weave in themes that relate to her Cuban roots through the use of color and choice of subject.

Sutter began exploring her passion for creating art when she was seven years old. In an interview, she states that she was driven by her love for nature and all living things to become an artist.

In 1962, when Sutter was just 11 years old, her family fled Cuba. They arrived in Miami eight years later in 1970. At age 18, Sutter put her artistic skills to work as a scenic artist at major entertainment venues and corporations, including the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus World, and Vision Enterprises. She also worked as a potter at Axner Ceramics, and as a miniaturist on the "White House in Miniature," which was exhibited worldwide, as well as many other projects. In 1981, she opened an art gallery, the Tropic Art Design, with a business partner and her husband Ben Sutter.

During the 1980’s, Sutter reconnected with her roots, which changed the course of her future work and was the starting point for the decade-long development of her artistic style and philosophy. This new turn in her life as an artist put her identity as a Latina front and center. She especially explored the textures, colors, styles, and locations that are unique to Cuban culture and important to Cuban identity and nationality. Her embrace of her roots did not make her work less accessible to audiences, but rather produced “a style that is sometimes complex yet able to reach people at many different levels.” Many of the titles of her works are bilingual in both Spanish and English. Sutter’s artist statement exemplifies her belief in art’s connection to the living world and personal identity:

"Art is the essence of feeling in its diverse forms. It includes the broadest aspects of life and how each singular personality manifests its perception of each existing experience by means of an aesthetic and comfortable wrapper that stimulates the imagination."

(Su filosofía artística: Arte es la esencia de los sentimientos en sus diversas formas, llevados a las exposiciones más amplias de la vida, en la cual se manifiestan cada una de las personalidades y su manera de sentir frente cada situación existente; mediante una envoltura estética y confortable que desarrolla la imaginación del hombre.)

Sutter has also worked with government grants and initiatives on behalf of women and the Latinx community. She is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Caucus for Art and was the Chair of the Latina Caucus. She worked with the National Hispanic Leadership Institute creating the posters for the 2000 and 2002 Mujer Award, and from 1999 to 2008 at the National Hispana Leadership Institute (NHLI) Mujer Awards Gala, in Orlando, Florida, La Jolla, California, San Antonio, Texas, and Denver, Colorado. She also worked with the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives event for Women's History Month (2001), for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2003, 2004), and for UNIFEM's fundraising event for the women of Afghanistan (2004).

Sutter has had her work exhibited all around the country including at the Epcot Guest relations lobby since October 2002, and in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, and in Florida at Walt Disney and other locations in Orlando. Her work has been featured in the following exhibitions: Ritmos Místicos (Mystic Rhythms), City Hall, Casselbury, FL in 2011; Art Buyers Caravan, Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, Orlando, FL, and Los Angeles, CA from 1987-1997; Latin American Art in Orlando, Terrace Gallery, City Hall, Orlando, FL; Art Expo, Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA; Professional Pictures Framers Association, Las Vegas, NV; Art Expo, Galleria, New York, NY; The Year of the Ox, Orlando, Terrace Gallery, City Hall, Orlando, FL; Celebrating Hispanic Heritage, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; Archivers Exhibitions, Celebration of Hispanic Art, The Plaza Hotel, New York, NY; The 10th Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education, Lake Buena Vista, FL; Great Southern Gallery, Key West, FL; Diversity, Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort, Orlando, FL; Ofrendas, Border Crossings: Voices of the Past (Installation), Maitland Art Center, Maitlan, FL; Latin Colors Reflexions, Casselberry, FL; The Hispanic 100 (Honoree and Exhibitor), Disney’s Boardwalk Resort, Lake Buena Vista, FL; and Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL.

Sutter has won awards for her creative work including the People’s Choice Award at the Osceola Art Center at the Creativa Art Show, exhibited at the Mexican Consulate in Orlando celebrating Frida Kahlo’s life, and successfully completed an Art & Development Partnership with CREOG APGO, a Medical Education Conference.

During her career, Sutter worked not only as an artist, but as an educator. Sutter founded the Learn to Be Creative and Art Mindfulness Series professional workshops that provided creative outlets and education in corporate settings. She also led workshops at the Family Leadership Institute, Educational Achievement Services, Learning to be Creative Seminar, Empowerment Works, and Chronic Diseases Stress Management Program in Orlando and Miami.

Luis Marcelino Gómez was born in Holguín, Cuba, in 1950. Educated in Cuba and the United States, Professor Gómez is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where his research interests include "XIX Latin American Short Stories written by women, Latin America women’s prose, Latin American Film and literature (how literature works are adapted into films), African prose written in Spanish, and African Culture in Hispanic America."

Gómez has authored several short story collections including Donde el sol es más rojo(1994), Oneiros(2002), Memorias de Angola(2003, 2008), and Cuando llegaron los helechos (2011).

Teok Carrasco was a self-taught Cuban painter best know for religious scenes, landscapes, and brightly colored murals.

Roberto Cazorla was born in Ceiba Mocha, Matanzas, in 1940, but emigrated early in life to Havana where he eventually worked in radio, television and theater.

A poet by trade, Cazorla has authored over twenty books of poetry, short stories and an autobiography. His most recent work is a collection of poems entitled Cuando el mundo se afeita la tristeza(Editorial Betania, 2012). Cazorla has lived in Spain since 1963, working until recently with the news outlet EFE; as of 2012, he is a correspondent for the American Spanish-language newspaper Libre.

Joe Cardona was born of Cuban parents in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on November 1, 1967. He has directed 11 feature length documentaries, mostly dealing with issues of cultural identity and Cuban history: Adios Patria, Café con Leche, The Flight of Pedro Pan, José Martí: Legacy of Freedom, Havana: Portrait of Yesteryear, Honey Girl, White Elephant, and Celia the Queen. Cardona has also directed, produced and written two feature films, Water, Mud and Factoriesand Bro.

Joe holds a degree in Mass Communications from Florida International University.

Rosa Luisa Ravelo Inguanzo was a Cuban lawyer and law professor who received her J.D. from the University of Havana in 1953. Upon arriving in the United States in exile, she reacquired her credentials at the University of Mississippi, and became a leading Cuban legal scholar. Her book Cuba's Constitutional Law and Citizens' Rights Under Present-day Government was published by the University of Mississippi in 1976.

The Solidaridad de Trabajadores Cubanos (STC) is a Cuban-exile organization which represents and protects the rights of Cuban workers. It has coordinated efforts with other organizations such as the Movimiento de los Trabajadores, Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC), guilds, and associations. The STC is not affiliated or dependent on any political entity.

The STC supports Cuban workers who do not favor the Marxist-Leninist system imposed and directed by the communist state. The STC is also the voice of the workers who are not in favor with the officially-endorsed CTC, which implement the objectives determined by the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party.

The STC originated from the working youth who were part of a new generation of syndicate and guild leaders who fought against the dictatorship of Batista for the establishment of a constitutional and democratic government. One of the STC’s predecessor was Frente Humanista which was formed by leaders who rose from the revolutionary struggle of the Cuban working class. Their revolutionary ideals conflicted with those of the Cuban Communist Party. As a result of this confrontation hundreds of revolutionaries who opposed Castro’s regime were imprisoned. More than one million Cuban workers were assassinated against firing walls, in the streets, in the mountains and in exile.

The stated principles of the STC are the following: for the liberty and the real democracy, that is form of government, political system and social living; against all types of dictatorships and of repression: for the social justice and the popular participation; against the exploitation, marginalization and the misery: for the independence and national sovereignty; and against all types of domination and external dependence.

The STC identifies itself as an organization outside Cuba with an assembly of Cuban workers who accept its principles and objectives and are dedicated to realizing them. The STC struggles for the integration of Cuba’s economy, society, culture, and politics. The STC has its headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, but is supported by Cuban exiles throughout the world.