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Federico Sánchez Villalba, born on September 17, 1912 and died on July 8, 1965, was one of five children to América Ruiz García and José Sánchez Villalba.

He began to show interest in drawing at the age of eleven. This led him to design in some of the most famous fashion houses such as Bernahew, Horas, Salas, and others. He also triumphed with the designs he presented for the ballets of the "Pro Arte Musical."

In 1933, he left Cuba for the United States where he attended classes at New York's Grand Central School of Art for a year. It was at that learning institution that Villalba further developed his skill at designing fashion. He returned to Cuba and became the editor of a magazine that was collaborated by different artists, poets, and writers. The magazine was titled Sketches and it was published between 1938 and 1939.

As he grew in talent and recognition, he continued to receive more awards. In Cuba he received awards and recognition for his artistic endeavors. In 1936, he received an honorable mention in Circulo de Bellas Artes and had two art exhibitions at the Lyceum in Havana. In October 1941, Villalba had his first one man art show at the Lyceum in Havana.

Villalba was also well known for his stage and costume designs that he created for different dance companies throughout Cuba. In 1937, he designed for the ballet company of Maria Andrews. He also decorated for the "La Fiesta de la Guitarra," (the party of the guitar) which was organized by the Society for Art and Music in Cuba. In 1940, he designed the ballet "Dioné," and in March of 1941, he designed costumes for "Muñecos Fantasticos," and during that same period, he also designed costumes for "Scheherezade."

Pedro Hernández Lovio was a lawyer and judge in Santa Maria del Rosario, Cuba, as well as the last secretary of the Diario de la Marina newspaper. He left Cuba in 1960 and passed away in 1966.

Puente de Jovenes Profesionales Cubanos is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization of young Cuban professionals in the United States and elsewhere, with the goal of restoring freedom and democracy to Cuba. Founded in 1992, it serves primarily as a social and intellectual brindge to, and between, Cubans in exile and those on the island.

The Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization whose primary mission is to "study the elements and processes involved in a transition to a free market economy and a democracy [in Cuba], as well as to promote scholarship, research, and publications on transition studies by its members."

ASCE is affiliated with the American Economic Association and the Allied Social Sciences Association of the United States. The group works with economists on the island who wish to engage in scholarly discussion and research.

Agustín Blázquez was an actor, documentary filmmaker, artist, and author whose work focused on post-revolutionary Cuban politics. Born in Cárdenas in 1944, he graduated from The Municipal Academy of Dramatic Arts in Havana in 1962 and left Cuba in 1965. He lived in Montreal, Paris, and Madrid before settling in the United States in 1967. He played roles in several ICAIC films in the 1960s and appeared in various television productions for Televisión Española from 1966 to 1967. He produced the documentary series "Covering Cuba" from 1995 to 2010. Blázquez's articles were compiled in the book "Cubriendo y descubriendo/Covering and Discovering" (Alexandria Library Inc., with Carlos Wotzkow, 2001); he translated the book "The Mafia of Havana: The Cuban Cosa Nostra" by Luis Grave de Peralta into Spanish as "La Mafia de la Habana: Nuestra Cosa Nostra" (AuthorHouse, 2001).

Eugenio Florit (1903-1999) was a well-known poet, essayist, lecturer, composer, diplomat, academic, actor, “man of three homelands,” and traveler. He was born October 15, 1903, in the northern section of Salamanca, Spain. He was the son of Don Ricardo Florit, a Spaniard, and Doña Mariá Sanchez de Fuentes, a Cuban. From the ages of two to six he grew up in Barcelona. Until the age of 15 he lived in Port-Bou, a city on the Mediterranean coast near France.

In 1918 Florit immigrated to Havana where he continued his studies, graduating from the University of Havana with a degree in civil and public law. In 1927 he began working for the Secretary of State and took on a role with the Revista de Avance, where he became known as a poet. He also worked as a radio personality and acted occasionally in theater troupes. In 1936, he met Juan R. Jimenez, who wrote the prologue to one of Florit’s most important books of verses, <a>Doble acento</a>, and with whom he maintained a friendship until Jimenez’s death.

In 1940 Florit went to work at the Cuban Consulate. He continued to live in New York until 1982, and it was the setting for almost all of his work as an essayist, literary critic, and translator. In 1945 after receiving a teaching position at Barnard College, he left his diplomatic post. He also taught at Columbia’s graduate school and at the intensive language school at Middlebury College in Vermont during the summer. There, he met poets such as Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and Luis Cernuda.

Florit was a collaborator on Repertorio Americano, Revista Avance, Lyceum, Revista Cubana, Origénes, and Revista Hispaníca Moderna, which he co-edited with Don Frederico Onis and Angel del Río until 1962, when he assumed total direction of the magazine. During the 1950s he traveled to Europe and Latin America, and his last trip to Cuba was in 1959.

He retired from his teaching position at Barnard in 1969, but continued living in New York and occupied himself with other obligations until moving to Miami in 1982. In 1991 he was one of the candidates for the Premio Cervantes, awarded by the North American Academy of Spanish Language. The same year he received the Premio Fray Luis de León from the University of Salamanca, and the Premio Mitre from the Hispanic Society of America in New York. Florit published his last work entitled Hasta luego in 1992. At the age of 96, Florit died on June 22, 1999. He was a mentor and guide for many generations and is considered among the greatest Hispanic-American poets.