Illuminating the Arts-Policy Nexus 
Illuminating the Arts-Policy Nexus is a fortnightly series of articles on the role of art in public policymaking. This series invites WPI fellows and project leaders as well as external practitioners to contribute pieces on how artists have led policy change and how policymakers can use creative strategies.
In Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World, World Policy Institute Senior Fellow Ian Bremmer illustrates a historic shift in the international system and the world economy—and an unprecedented moment of global uncertainty.
Silvana Paternostro
Senior Fellow
Expertise: AIDS; Colombia; Cuba; Latin America; revolutionary movements; women's issues
Silvana Paternostro specializes in women's issues and has written extensively about Cuba, Central and South America, AIDS, revolutionary movements, and the intersection of literature, music, and other cultural forms with politics and economics. Her second book, My Colombian War: A Journey through the Country I Left Behind, which mixes memoir with history and reportage to tell the story of Colombia's forty-year-old civil war and uncover the truth about U.S involvement in the country, was published by Henry Holt in November 2007. She also is the author of In the Land of God and Man: Confronting Our Sexual Culture, which explores gender roles and the effect of government and religion on women's lives in Latin America and was short-listed for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Her exposé of "re-virginization" centers in the United States appeared the book Se Habla Espanol: Voces Latinas en USA, the first anthology of new Latino voices in the United States published in Spanish. She is a contributing editor of Bomb magazine, a New York cultural magazine focusing on interviews between artists, writers, actors, directors, and musicians; and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, the Paris Review, the New Republic, and numerous other publications. In 1999 she was selected by Time/CNN as one of fifty Latin American Leaders for the New Millennium.
She has been a reporter and writer for various publications, including The Daily News, The Miami Herald, El Nuevo herald, Columbia Journalism Review, Spin, World Policy Journal, Cambio 16, The Westsider, and Chelsea Clinton News. Stringer for The New York Times, Mexico City (1991) Nicaragua, and Panama (1990); Production Assistant," Sunday Today," NBC News (1988);
Research Assistant for James S. Henry, former chief economist at McKinsey & Co. (1986-90); Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., New York (1986-87); Banco del Istmo, Panama City (1984-86); Assistant to the Editor, La Prensa, Panama City (1982-84)
Honors & Affiliations:
Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from Duke University (July, 1997)
Education:
M.I.A., International Media & Communications, School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University
B.A. in Political Science, University of Michigan
Languages:
Fluent Spanish, French and Italian
Contact: paternostro@worldpolicy.org
http://www.silvanapaternostro.com/
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