About the Author

Paul N. Avakian

Paul N. Avakian is an award-winning writer with articles and essays published in Foreign Policy In Focus, Foreign Policy Journal, and Strategy & Leadership. His 2005 film, On The Fringes, about the immigrant subculture living on the edges of wealth in Westchester County, has been adopted as a teaching resource in university Latin American studies programs across the country. He has studied social revolution in Cuba at the University of Havana, and in Guatemala’s highlands.