Miriam Pensack is a writer and researcher with a focus on Latin America and U.S. foreign policy, human rights, and national security. Her writing and translations have appeared in Dissent, NACLA Report on the Americas, the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, among other publications. She is a doctoral candidate in Latin American history at New York University, where her research focuses on U.S. empire in Latin America, Cold War insurgency, and the rise of neoliberalism.