Join Gustavo Arellano, author, Los Angeles Times columnist, and finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in conversation with Dr. José Antonio Guevara Bermúdez, Tinker Visiting Professor and expert in human rights, humanitarian, and refugee law.
Gustavo Arellano covers Southern California and the American West for the Los Angeles Times. He previously worked at Orange County Weekly, where he was a reporter and author of the column ¡Ask a Mexican! Arellano was a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary for his pieces, filed from across the Southwest in Election 2024, that shattered stereotypes about the political leanings of Latino voters. In his weekly columns, as in his memoir, Orange County: A Personal History, Arellano writes from his perspective as “the son of Mexican immigrants, one of whom arrived in this country in the trunk of a Chevy.”
José Antonio Guevara Bermúdez is an expert in international law with over 20 years of experience in human rights, humanitarian, refugee, and criminal law. He earned his Law Degree from Iberoamericana University and a PhD in Human Rights from Carlos III University of Madrid. Guevara Bermúdez has held significant roles in the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, and academic positions at Iberoamericana University, among others.
- The Parrhesia Public Thought and Discourse Program
- The Chicago Maroon
- Center for Latin American Studies
- Chicago Center on Democracy
