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Enrique Hurtado de Mendoza was a Cuban-born diplomat who worked for the Organization of American States from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Pedro J. Saavedra was a Cuban political scientist, diplomat, and exile leader. He worked for the Organizacion de Estados Americanos in Washington D.C, as well as other political organizations.

Ramón Grau Alsina was the nephew of Ramón Grau San Martín, a prominent physician and president of Cuba from 1933 to 1934 and again from 1944 to 1948. Together with his sister Polita Grau Alsina, Grau Alsina orchestrated Operation Pedro Pan, which smuggled over 42,000 children out of Communist Cuba.

Ana Rosa Núñez was a Cuban poet and librarian who authored and translated over two dozen books. She and fellow Cuban exile librarian Rosa Abella were hired by the University of Miami in 1965, helping to found the Cuban Heritage Collection of the University of Miami Library.

José Manuel Roseñada was a noted Cuban journalist and caricaturist.

Inés Segura Bustamante (1919-2002) was a clinical psychologist, member of Directorio Estudiantil Universitario, writer, painter, composer, and lyricist. Segura Bustamante graduated from the University of Havana with degrees in psychology, philosophy, and letters and worked as a professor of psychology at the University of Havana. As a student in the 1930’s she was politically active and participated in the 1933 Revolution against the Machado government. During the riots that broke out at the University of Havana, she and fellow students Rafael Trejo and Alberto Espinosa were defended by their professor, Dr. Guerra, who later left the university. Later, Segura Bustamante was held at the Isle of Pines prison along with fellow Directorio members Zoila Mulet, Silvia Shelton, and Calixta Guiteras. During her professional career in Havana, she authored many publications such as her 1947 “¿Es la acción voluntaria realmente voluntaria?” in the Revista Cubana de Filosofía de La Habana, which ran from 1946-1958. This article later was published as a monograph in 1948.

She left Cuba after the Revolution of 1959. In exile in Miami in the 1960’s, she was a leading figure in the Directorio Magisterial Revolutionario (DMR), a non-militant anti-Communist organization of professional teachers formed in November of 1960 that worked to produce and distribute anti-Castro informational materials. Segura Bustamante also continued her work as a psychologist and writer in the U.S, where she studied at Columbia University in New York and received her certification from the Florida State Board of Psychology.

She authored several books including El nuevo Gólgota: Cuba y otros temas, a book of Cuban history published in 1996 by Editora Corripio (República Dominicana). She also published another book of Cuban political history, Cuba siglo XX y la generación de 1930: un documento histórico published by Ediciones Universal (Miami) in 1987. In 1989 she published a book about the Directorio Estudiantil called Cuba: pruebas documentales de nuestra historia published by Editora Corripio in Santo Domingo, R.D. Her published works of psychology include Problemas de conducta en los niños: y su repercusion en la edad adulta published by Caribe in 1973 and translated into English by Carlos de Varona and published in 1988 by Editora Corripio as Behavior problems in children and their aftermath in adult age: A book for professionals and non-professionals.

Segura Bustamante studied music and piano and wrote a significant amount of songs. She also studied painting and some of her pictorial works are held in the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami.

Maximo Soronodo was a Cuban exile who served as an international delegate of the Consejo Revolucionario Cubano, the Cuban government in exile. He served in Mexico, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Peru, and Chile.

Elena Zayas was an educator from Cuba who lived and worked in New York City. She and her husband, Mario Zayas, were active in Club de Leones Cubanos and other Cuban exile organizations in New York and New Jersey.

Dr. Josefina Inclán (b. 1922) was a Cuban writer, scholar and editor. She edited manuscripts by a number of famous Cuban and exile writers, as well as authoring books on the subjects of Cuba and certain Cuban individuals with whom she worked closely, such as Lydia Cabrera, Carmen Conde, and Amelia Peláez. She was an active participant in the Cuban Women's Club in Miami, FL. In 1972, she was presented with a Lincoln-Martí award at a ceremony that took place at the MacAllister Hotel in Miami, Florida.

Select publications include Una carta de Martí (1976); Viajando por la Cuba que fue libre (Ediciones Universal, 1977); and Lydia Cabrera : creación y poesía (Miami, 1981).

Rafael Esténger was a Cuban poet, historian, and literary critic who worked in Cuba primarily in the early- to mid-20th century. He was a member of the National College of Journalists and the National Academy of Arts and Letters. Born in Santiago de Cuba in 1899, he graduated from the University of Havana in 1925. He held multiple positions throughout his professional career, including as a lawyer in Oriente, municipal secretary in Santiago de Cuba, and advisor to the National Institute of Economic Reform during the government of Gerardo Machado.

His poetry gained international acclaim, with his first works published in La Independencia, El Cubano Libre and other newspapers in Santiago de Cuba. He was the editor of El Sol and contributed to the publications Letras, El Fígaro, Cuba Contemporánea, Alerta, Avance, and Bohemia. Other famous works include the anthology Cien de las mejores poesías cubanas and Homenaje a Maceo.

John Beltrán was born in Guanabacoa, Cuba. He went to Costa Rica in September 1961 as a Cuban exile. He also lived in Nicaragua for a short period of time. In February 1962, he flew to New York where he lived through 1969. From 1969 to 1972, Beltrán was established in Puerto Rico. Finally in 1972, he moved to Miami where he has been living to the present day.

John Beltrán, the collector, was a friend of Olga Guillot and began to collect material related to her since the beginning of Olga's career.

Dr. Enrique Baloyra was born in Cuba in 1942 and exiled to Miami in 1961 at the age of 19. After living in the United States for ten years, he received a PhD in political science from the University of Florida in 1971. He taught in his discipline at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and eventually took a position as associate dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Miami, where he worked until his death in 1997.

Aside from being an accomplished political scientist and Latin Americanist, Baloyra was dedicated to Cuban issues, acting as a founder of the Cuban Committee for Democracy and the Centro de la Democracia Cubana. He served as president of the Coordinadora Social Demócrata and was a member of the Instituto de Estudios Cubanos.